JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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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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- FT English Teachers for Kids - Osaka
- Kohgakusha Co., Ltd. （株式会社興学社）, Osaka
- Salary: ¥255,000 ~ ¥275,000 / Month Travel Expenses, Encouragement of Japanese learning*
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- Translator
- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
- Salary: ¥6.0M / Year Negotiable
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Spoken with full irony and maximum disdain, of course.
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This is great! Hahahahahahahahaha
Posted in: Try cooking a Big Mac in rice cooker
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Yes, your comment was intended to bolster your image as a "hard-man actor" (what an unfortunate phrase). We know all your "hard-man" films are documentaries, and we'll all very impressed, Marky.
The good thing is that as his comments appeared in Men's Journal, the only ones exposed to it were a few hundred extremely bored patients waiting for their turn in the dentist's chair who had already flipped through all the available issues of Sports Illustrated and People.
Posted in: Wahlberg apologizes for 9/11 comments on how he would have overpowered hijackers
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And Honda (which was up until this coming season the sole engine supplier to the series) now has no "reward race" on the schedule.
Posted in: IndyCar announces 15-race schedule, but no Japan race
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Yes, clearly this one moron speaks for all 300 million Americans. Let the soul-searching commence.
And I'm not sure this qualifies as a "thought," either.
Posted in: Black Friday pepper spray suspect surrenders in LA
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Vital stuff, indeed.Let's hope they have top men working on it...
Posted in: Becky wins Kodansha's 'Best Character Award'
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I sincerely hope she feels better soon. Pneumonia is something a lot of people equate as "just a really bad cold" but it can absolutely be lethal, especially to those with weakened or not yet fully developed immune systems.
Posted in: Princess Aiko has pneumonia, agency says
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And then don't forget the final step--change the name of the series to NASCAR. And then try to compete with that other racing series that fields cars eerily similar to your new design. These are open cockpit, open wheel cars by definition--Dan Wheldon would be appalled at the idea of throwing out the very basic idea of this kind of racing. Sure, don't race at the 1.5-mile high-banked ovals that can accommodate the heavier, slower NASCARs but not the lighter, faster IndyCars, but that doesn't mean you stop racing on ovals, period.
Posted in: IndyCar drivers to talk safety at Monday meeting
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The only way a driver boycott really works is if it's unanimous, and no driver is going to pull out if he/she suspects the others won't. Some of the drivers' postrace comments raise the question as to why they didn't refuse to race if they truly believed it was so dangerous, but I'm sure the enormous financial pressures coupled with simply not wanting to be the one that blinks in the face of danger goes a long, long way.
Posted in: Wheldon killed in massive, fiery IndyCar crash
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Drivers obviously have every right to complain about a track that they feel isn't safe for the type of cars they're expected to drive--not sure what there is to get about that. If the point was to simply go as fast as possible, they'd be out on a salt flat somewhere in Utah driving in a straight line and comparing top speeds. This track was too short and too narrow to accommodate the number of cars that would be on it simultaneously. In addition, when the cars are all flat-out the entire way around, they stay clumped together in packs, and obviously wheel-to-wheel contact in an open-wheel car at top speed presents serious problems that don't really exist for closed-wheel cars such as those used in NASCAR.
The simple truth is that no matter what safeguards you put in place, the possibility of death and injury will always be present--there's simply no way to eliminate it entirely other than by not participating at all. In the chaos of a high-speed accident, quite literally anything can happen, and everyone involved accepts that risk.
Posted in: Wheldon killed in massive, fiery IndyCar crash
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Yes, because being a fan of Tori Amos clearly qualifies one for medical or law school in a way that liking Hello Kitty does not. Enjoying Hello Kitty only comes with its own set of ridiculous assumptions about a person in your own mind. Get over yourself.
Posted in: DJ Hello Kitty thrills teenagers in Japan store
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If you're not making it and there are no dishes to do afterward, it is.
Posted in: You can't reinvent the burger; you can remake it
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Don't speak too soon, Danica. You could still conceivably drop dead of radiation poisoning in the next hour or so. Fortunately, as long as you stay away from sushi, the only food eaten in exotic Zipang, you may yet make it through. Best keep a lead-lined refrigerator handy in the pits to be safe. I see that she's also cannily hung back in qualifying (23rd out of 26) just in case another earthquake should consume the front-runners. Smart...
Posted in: Patrick says concerns about Japan understandable
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Well, there are a hundred billion bottles washed up on the shore.
Posted in: Sailor in Hawaii finds message in a bottle from Japan
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By all means, Danica Patrick should stay home and let someone else finish in 20th or so place. She's far too busy filming GoDaddy commercials and planning out her mediocre career in NASCAR.
Posted in: Sato says Indy Japan has greater purpose
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This is the same government that offered up slavish media coverage to Gaga's recent trip to Japan via its state-owned Xinhua website. If only the Party aparatchiks had released the results of their well-considered analysis in time! Who knows how many malleable minds are now plotting to break China up into a multitude of independent nuclear-armed states after pondering the lyric "That I'll die living just as free as my hair."
Not mentioned here, but the Tenacious D smash hit "The Government Totally Sucks" is also totally verboten.
Posted in: China bans songs by Lady Gaga, Backstreet Boys
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Sad to see anyone get so desperate pacing around inside their own head to the point that they go through with it. Just reaching out, or even knowing that you can reach out, could make all the difference. RIP
Posted in: Former Yankees pitcher Irabu found dead in LA in apparent suicide
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Phenomenonally bad artwork, but it's obviously an advertisement, and therefore the more eye-catching, the better. Not even really meant to actually drive around, but just sit there and do its job.
Yes, because this garish ad clearly epitomizes absolutely everything about America. Anyone who lives there can tell you about entire freeways packed with literally no other vehicles except stretch Hummers, their single occupants (no one carpools) with a triple cheeseburger in one hand and a Desert Eagle in the other, shooting at their fellow ten-gallon hat-clad countrymen, or just simply firing into the smog-gray American sky in celebration of being not only alive, but being an Amurrican.
Posted in: Supersize me
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At some point in the match, the ball will fly high and true, far out of the reach of the players beneath, but certainly not as far out of reach as nanda's point flying over your head.
Posted in: What to watch for when Japan-US play in WCup final
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Urban myth, most definitely. Bobby McFerrin is alive and well.
Perhaps the Japanese could embrace Ernst Stavro Blofeld's concept of a "Garden of Death," a tranquil Japanese garden filled with a variety of poisonous flora and fauna, where they can end it all in peace. In the novel of You Only Live Twice, the suicide-mad locals were climbing over the walls to get in.
Posted in: Second suicide in two days at Shin-Koiwa Station