JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Financial Advisor
- Select Asset Management KK, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥100,000 ~ ¥999,999 Paid Training Commission Based
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- Corporate Business English Trainers
- ACT Systems, Inc.（株式会社アクト・システムズ）, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥269,500 ~ ¥280,000 / Month
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
- Berlitz Japan, Inc. (ベルリッツ・ジャパン株式会社), Kansai
- Salary: ¥125,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month
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telecasterplayer
I have two Casio g-shock waveceptors, and I love them. Platonic, of course.
Atomic refers to the atomic clocks which are the world standards.
Posted in: Multi-band atomic watch
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telecasterplayer
rjdsr, yes, those chemicals were invented overseas. And since Japan didn't have the concepts of seppaku and hari-kiri prior to this, it's all the fault of the foreigners.
Posted in: Four found dead after inhaling lethal gas made from detergent in Takayama
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telecasterplayer
Yeah, but they wouldn't shake his hand or borrow his stapler, either.
Come on, NO ONE noticed?
Posted in: Civil servant demoted for accessing porn sites 780,000 times during office hours
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telecasterplayer
capone, margarine was invented in the 1800's.. a wee bit before plastic and petroleum chemistry.
sumobob, maybe other countries ought to check out miso (soy) and fish!
Posted in: Japan running short of butter
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telecasterplayer
Good for them, that stuff is bad for ya. Getting onto the dairy/fructose train is the one of the worst things a country can do to itself.
Posted in: Japan running short of butter
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telecasterplayer
"I still don't get it, son.. where does the McNugget come from?"
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telecasterplayer
Soulless corporate culture, mind-numbing and stressful jobs consisting of moving paper from one part of the office to another, nothing even remotely like a normal 8-hour day for most, growing class division, the disappearance of nature, evaporation of traditional spiritualism, growing alienation and techno crapola taking the place of human relationships.
Nah, I can totally understand why the government can't figure out what's wrong. What COULD be wrong with all of that?
Posted in: Japan sees wave of suicides using detergent-produced gas
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telecasterplayer
The SMAP Prefectural Employee Lunch may be discontinued, but the ARASHI Matsu-Jun Sidewalk-Crack Repair Campaign remains in full swing.
I don't want to know what they do for Razor Ramon-Hard Gay.
Posted in: SMAP meal set suspended at Osaka prefectural government office
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telecasterplayer
SO.. the Shinjuku cops have time to harass those two women from Singapore (see the Japan Today commentary page), but they can't find this guy? I'm not gay, I don't live in Japan and even I've known for months that witnesses have been spotting Ichihashi in Kabuki-cho.
Posted in: Ichihashi reportedly seen in Tokyo's gay area
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telecasterplayer
The article doesn't give a lot of details, maybe a 33-year old woman who expects "development" from a three-month old baby is basically NUTS to start with.
Posted in: Mother attempts suicide after strangling 3-month-old son in Tokyo
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telecasterplayer
The "Baby Hatch" does NOT encourage this sort of thing, the suggestion is completely ridiculous. This sort of crime has been going on forever, in every country. The baby's mother was going to do this regardless of a baby window hundreds of kilometers away. Maybe if the "Baby Hatch" were closer she would have felt she had another option other than letting the kid die in a river.
Posted in: Body of newborn baby found in Saitama river
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telecasterplayer
A lot of the responses here seem to confuse "the way things are" with "what is right". Assuming this account is accurate, the cops: acted dubiously and failed to make clear their intentions as peace officers; didn't establish their id's and therefore didn't make clear their public responsibility/duty to check passports; totally failed to control the situation and through their amateurishness allowed it to get out of control. It reads like poor police work.
I'm wondering if these guys were really cops. This story doesn't make clear whether the women were actually taken into some sort of holding room at the station. If all of this happened outside, maybe they weren't police officers, and these women were actually pretty lucky.
Posted in: Roughed up by the cops in Shinjuku
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telecasterplayer
I joined for the all-you-can-eat Friday Night Chinese Buffet. Stay away from the Kool-Aid, though..
Posted in: Why do people join cults?
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telecasterplayer
I've read about this relatively new suicide-by-gas phenom in Japan on some other site. Sorry, can't remember which one. The "courtesy note" on the door doesn't seem to be enough to stop innocents from getting hurt. It's got to be a gruesome, painful death.
Posted in: Son dies, mother injured by hydrogen sulfide gas in Okayama
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telecasterplayer
This is the guy who supposedly heard "voices" telling him to stab the cab driver? And yet these voices also told him to go party for a while.
Amazing how these killers never have "voices" that tell them to put a sock in it and go back to work.
Posted in: U.S. murder suspect went to pachinko parlor, then met girls after crime
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telecasterplayer
"I'm Lovin' It.. literally!"
Has anyone made a "Secret Sauce" joke yet?
Posted in: Porn producers arrested for filming at McDonald's in Saitama
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telecasterplayer
Robin Hood,
Rest assured, it is. We are in complete agreement there.
Who cares what the "real" Japan is like? There's no excuse for rape and murder! And it should never happen, let alone with the current frequency!
VOR,
You are making assumptions about my politics, and you've no basis to question my honesty. Take my statement, and replace all references to "the Military" with "Rap Music", "the Catholic Church", or "Politics", etc etc. It all stands up. I am against CRIME, and question those who would justify criminal behavior.
Posted in: Troubled times in Yokosuka
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telecasterplayer
Zaphod, as long as you can predict the future and alternate realities, could you please give me tomorrow night's "MegaMillions Lottery" numbers?
Posted in: Teenagers rampage through Australian school with baseball bats; 19 injured
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telecasterplayer
There is no justification for crime. Crime is crime. Being in the military is not an excuse. You're not allowed to run around raping and murdering your civilian allies because you're in the military. Veiled threats against the author of this piece crawl with the lowest forms of cowardice. Too bad if you don't like the bad news. Arguments comparing peace-time Japan to troubled parts of the world are completely irrelevant, and it pains me to see my countrymen volunteering to swim in that sewer. Restrictions placed on innocent Military members are not a backward license of approval for the initial crime, nor do they cancel out anyone else's right to criticize an awful situation that can be remedied from the top. Before someone says I ought to "go to Russia", or "live the life of a U.S. Sailor in Japan", the answers are "No" and "No". I don't have to. And I chose not to entrust my soul to a pentagon that in my lifetime has been synonymous with incompetence and excess.
The kind of thinking demonstrated by the apologists for rapists and murderers is part of the disease which is killing U.S. hegemony in the world. Japan, for its sake, ought to be seriously thinking about how it will nurture and defend its democracy without U.S. help.
Posted in: Troubled times in Yokosuka
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telecasterplayer
eresay, what's your source? "The Age" website says
Back when I was a journo, we were warned against using ethnic appearance in the description of criminal suspects, and the JT story seems to follow that logic. If you didn't know her and passed her on the street, would you know that tarento "Becky" is Japanese? Akko Wada is Korean? Half? If Australia is as multicultural as the U.S., then it's best to lay off. Reason: You don't want to plaster an entire ethnic group with the actions of a few that may not even be part of said group.
Posted in: Teenagers rampage through Australian school with baseball bats; 19 injured