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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timeon
As Pukey said, the garden is very nice, and usually not very crowded. Beautiful and quiet in the middle of Tokyo (Todai haters, you should know that it's administered by the School of Science :) My students went there Saturday afternoon, but despite the 35 degrees or so, there was a 2 hours queue, mostly old people that saw the news on TV. I'm curious if everybody survived, good that flower is in bloom only for 2 days (I thought it was 17 years though)
Posted in: Titan Arum
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timeon
2012? long time to go. I'm actually flying with Cathay today, usually their services are great
Posted in: Cathay Pacific to enhance inflight Internet and entertainment with Panasonic Avionics
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timeon
black Mercedes Benz usually means yakuza. and usually police does not question a guy driving a black Benz. wonder what happened?
Posted in: Nara car chase ends with arrest for ignoring traffic lights
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timeon
nice one IronBeard. and unfortunately very true
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timeon
Wanderlust, a guy at a bank for example has 10 times a higher salary by moving money from one place to another, or speculating on the stock market, than the guy who actually discovers the new stuff that all our modern lives are based on (the Todai was just an example I know firsthand; replace it with Harvard or NASA or Toyota). "developing products that make money for a company". exactly my point: the guy that actually develops the product (researchers, engineers) earn much less than the executives who just talk and vote their salaries, as Frungy said
Posted in: Japan finding out who gets big pay under new rule
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timeon
and a Todai masters graduate who works as an engineer at these makers barely makes 200,000 yen a month, and patiently waits for the years to pass under the amakudari system. an assistant professor at the same Todai (PhD, leading a group of 10 people, and making interesting research) works an average of 12 hours a day, 6 days a week for something around 300,000 a month.
Posted in: Japan finding out who gets big pay under new rule
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timeon
IronBeard, that's true, just the strikers score to the opponent's goal...
Posted in: Good luck
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timeon
that thing is absolutely horrible, I watched the game with the sound at minimum. I'm surprised no teams complained yet
Posted in: Blow hard
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timeon
totally agree, Garthgoyle. girls, for more eyecandy for you, check out the most successful Japanese bodybuilder to date: Hidetada Yamagishi
Posted in: Bodies
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timeon
timborder, usually they say it's not recommended to work with weights before 16. these guys are probably from a lower weight class, and they are well conditioned, even if more muscle mass won't do them bad. however, bodybuilding became a freak show of oversized, drugs-pumped huge muscles, I hope in time it will come back to the standards of proportion and definition, and the steroids will be severely banned and punished
Posted in: Bodies
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timeon
the institute of geriatrics opening its gates
Posted in: Get back in line
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timeon
and where are the meat sommeliers? and the fruits sommeliers? and the beer sommeliers? and the mineral water sommeliers?
I say send them all to the school of common sense sommelier
Posted in: Buy California
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timeon
so did they go shopping in Sugamo?
Posted in: SATC2
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timeon
they should stage a duet with George Michael. and invite Bloodhound Gang as the opening act
Posted in: Elton John performance in Morocco raises outcry
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timeon
Unfortunately, yellow carding some fellows in front of the combini does not solve the main problem: truck drivers and taxi drivers. Where I live, at night there are always long lines of taxis idling, some in target spots waiting for customers, some in quiet places for a good rest. And when waiting at the traffic stop before my home late at night, the cars running consist of 80-90% taxis (expected), but most of them without customers (disturbing)
Posted in: It’s time to penalize drivers who leave their motors running
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timeon
Tatanka, I beg to differ. I came to Japan when I was 20. the deal was: learn level 1 Japanese in one year, to be able to enter and study at a Japanese university. And after one year I could speak, read, and write enough to survive all the exams in uni. I'm European, and I can tell you those kanjis were a nightmare, but my career developed very well because of that initial effort
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timeon
wow, she really can't dance! but I don't think anybody cares, surely I don't :)
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timeon
dreamland, some people have a PhD, work as assistant prof at a top university long hours 6 days a week and still don't make much more than that...
Posted in: Telephone fraudsters' ill-gotten gains don't last long
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timeon
and I know plenty of people who commute more than one hour under these conditions. horrible way to start your day, the stress, suicidal tendencies, sudden bursts make more sense now. NeoJamal, usually the train that comes after 3 mins is similarly crowded. and 3 mins may be 1 min late for work, and you have to take all the crap for that
Posted in: Rush hour
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timeon
Mikanojo, exactly what I was trying to suggest. I don't like too much the rice in the average bento, but when my friend from Niigata brings some quality (and expensive) rice, there's a huge difference.
Posted in: No train trip would be complete without an ekiben boxed lunch