JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Confrontation
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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California court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
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Kuroki reported pregnant 2 weeks after denying relationship with Akanishi
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
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- Assistant Language Teacher - TOKYO - late-March start
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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- Assistant Language Teacher - Kanagawa Prefecture - late-March start
- Interac, Kanagawa
- Salary: ¥230,000 ~ ¥255,000 / Month
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tigris
Dammit,
Thanks for the common sense. I am not generally against kids on a plane even if my above posts might suggest it. But what is getting me riled up is incompetent parents who can't or won't control their kids and let them scream on for hours. And with an attitude of shut up everybody I got a right to take my screaming kids on a plane.
Posted in: In-flight madness with the kids
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tigris
Snowden
Airlines are a business not a public service. It is a product people pay for and have justified expectations about. I can assure you that the airlines see it my way: loose a small annoying minority or accomodate frequent flyers and the majority. Usually when I request a "quiet" flight, I am accomodated by most airlines in the most forthcoming manner. I simply insist on my rights not to be tortured by any fellow passenger small or large for hours and they are aware of the problem.
As you think that little kids should have the same rights as adults, they should be treated as such - no discounts for kids. If the kids scream for extented periods put the guardians on a no-fly blacklist which is common with most airlines for annoying passengers.
Posted in: In-flight madness with the kids
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tigris
nisegaijin completely support your proposal and I ain't an English teacher nor single.
dano 2002 If you don't want to be there and don't want a screaming child, just don't fly. You will help yourself and hundreds of people who paid serious money to have a quiet flight.
After enduring selfish parents (like in the article above) who can't control their kids I have had it. I don't pay for being in a screaming chamber and sitting on soggy seats and I make this very clear on check-in in recent years: I demand a seat in a cabin without kids under 5. If they can't provide it I won't fly with that airline again. Airlines should have a separate sound proof cabin for people with kids and make them pay for it.
Posted in: In-flight madness with the kids
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tigris
Beauty knows no pain. (Zappa)
Posted in: Beautyworld
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tigris
To a point. from 35-90 the quality is astonishing. For this particular lens the Canon marketing department pushed it too far: at 24 the vignetting and fall-off in the corners is so bad - even at f16 - that it is almost unusable except of course at night. A camera of this caliber resolves in such detail that it will expose brutally any deficiencies in the glass. Only L lenses are recommended. The longer the Zoom the more optical problems especially at the wide end. Expect to spend more money for the glass than the camera.
Posted in: Canon EOS 5D Mark II awarded top honors in Japan's premier photo industry awards
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tigris
Does this apply also for buying airport bus tickets bought in Japan? Until very recently it was impossible to buy/reserve a ticket from Narita to Tokyo (inbound) in advance. Neither at the respective offices nor websites - "because the numerous delays would cause disarray". Only tickets from Tokyo to Narita for outbound flights were sold in advance.
Posted in: Amadeus now featuring limo bus services between Narita and Tokyo
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tigris
No surprise. People always talk about things they don't have: poor people always talk about money, Americans babble on and on about freedom liberty and justice.
Posted in: Obama to restart military tribunals for Gitmo detainees, dismaying liberals
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tigris
Sorry about the mangled post. Womanforwoman So now you claim freedom of expression for yourself but deny it to the ladies in the photograph. I rather deal with bad taste than with hypocrisy.
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tigris
Womanforwoman So now you claim freedom of expression for yourself but deny it to the ladies in the photograph. I rather deal with bad taste than with the hypocrisy.
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tigris
It always amazes me that visitors or temporary residents know better than the natives how to respect traditions 'properly'. The colonial mindframe in 2009 alive and well: these stupid and perverted natives are not part of the superior 'rest of the world' where everything is proper and as it should be.
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tigris
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk. Bertold Brecht
Posted in: Obama berates AIG and vows to try to block bonuses
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tigris
Preventing crime is a very good reason to own a gun. It may also save your own life, your family or country.
According to your logic all the security measures before you board a plane are BS. It would be much safer then to give away free guns before you fly, so that everybody can prevent possible crimes. How do you personally feel on an airplane these days? Do you agree that you aren't allowed any weapon on a plane and do you feel safer, or maybe not?
German gun laws are so strict, because the vast majority of Germans want it that way.
Posted in: 17-year-old gunman kills 15 in Germany before taking own life
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tigris
A German gun permit (which is really difficult to get) doesn't allow you to use guns for self-defense. You may take it back and forth from home to the local shooting clubs, but the use of guns outside the shooting ranges and hunting areas or for any other purpose including self-defense is illegal. Even with a gun permit you are not allowed to move freely around with a gun or shoot people threatening you. For the use of guns for self-defense you need a different permit which is only given to professionals - police and security personal.
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/0,1518,612767,00.html (sorry German only)
Posted in: 17-year-old gunman kills 15 in Germany before taking own life
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tigris
Looking at these photographs
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/gallery/2009/mar/05/prince-charles-fashion-style-advice-pictures?picture=344190091
I think he carries himself with great dignity and style considering the different circumstances. He deserves the award.
Posted in: Prince Charles named world's best dressed man
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tigris
Ichiriki-tei is Kyoto's most famous teahouse, not a ryokan.
Posted in: Ryokan: Japan’s Finest Spas and Inns
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tigris
Isn't that Marui YOUNG? Marui ONE closed 2004.
Posted in: Marui shop attendants
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tigris
About time. Now charge Watson with intentionally breaking COLREGs, nullify his license and delist the ship.
Posted in: Anti-whaling group says Australian police seized video of clashes
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tigris
tkoind2
That is exaxtly what Sea Shepherd does: Sea Shepherd claims to have sunk ten whaling ships since 1979, referring to these ships as "pirates". The claimed attacks include: 1979 – the whaler Sierra rammed and sunk in Portugal; 1980 – the whalers Isba I and Isba II sunk in Vigo, Spain; 1980 – the whalers Susan and Theresa sunk in South Africa; 1986 – the whaling ships Hvalur 6 and Hvalur 7 sunk in Iceland; 1992 – the whaler Nybraena sunk in Norway; 1994 – the whaler Senet sunk in Norway; 1998 – the whaler Morild sunk in Norway.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Shepherd More info also on other sites just google "Sea Shepherd violence"
Posted in: Whalers 'on the run' again, say activists
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tigris
Kind of like evaluating the menu design of restaurants without talking about food.
Posted in: The world's top 10 airport websites
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tigris
Another narcissist telling people what to eat and how to live. And how 'impure' everybody else is and lives.
Posted in: Take a break from fast lane at one-of-a-kind retreat in Chiba