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  timeon at 12:15 PM JST - 9th September

  part time jobs included in these statistics?

  without any official data, I've noticed that suddenly most of the staff at izakayas and combini are foreigners (mostly Chinese). I guess the companies changed their policies, because about 5 years ago the foreigners could work only in the back, washing dishes and…

  Posted in Number of foreign workers employed by Japanese firms at 339,000 at 12:15 PM JST - 9th September

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  timeon at 12:08 PM JST - 9th September

  and how about the superior? the government gives my tax money to the parents of that weakling, and the superior goes on with the ijime of young lads?

  Posted in Gov't not to appeal ruling over MSDF sailor's suicide at 12:08 PM JST - 9th September

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  timeon at 08:00 PM JST - 8th September

  oh no! we used to have two parties a year with the coupons from various salesmen

  Posted in Sapporo to end beer coupon sales in Feb at 08:00 PM JST - 8th September

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  timeon at 07:54 PM JST - 8th September

  Some info (4 years outdated, because I stopped working as a translator): 1) they do get steaks occasionally 2) they have some magazines and books in foreign languages, but not much 3) they can receive packages, including books, magazines in their native language 4) they are allowed to watch TV…

  Posted in Cozy prisons coddle foreign inmates at 07:54 PM JST - 8th September

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  timeon at 12:46 PM JST - 8th September

  well, in my lab came a top shogi player (at high school level). He had no friends, no other hobbies (except shogi, bu he stopped playing once in graduate school), no social life. After one year in the lab he got completely depressed, was hospitalized for a while and he's…

  Posted in Shogi enjoying popularity among children as educational tool at 12:46 PM JST - 8th September

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  timeon at 09:44 AM JST - 5th September

  Pukey, the fact that you know some news makes you clever?! but I do agree with the rest of you about the talents of this tarento

  Posted in Yukina Kinoshita introduces 'Ugly Betty' DVD at 09:44 AM JST - 5th September

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  timeon at 09:34 AM JST - 4th September

  I completely agree with sport. After I was pretty hardcore in my youth with sports (tennis for 8 years, then kyokushin for 3 years), and a period of not doing anything, came a period of awful back pains. So I started experiencing various forms of exercise, until I reached the…

  Posted in Running boom initiated by women runners spreading across Japan at 09:34 AM JST - 4th September

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  timeon at 03:59 PM JST - 3rd September

  well there is a bottom-up approach. the start is with cell lines from different tissues, then it goes up to in vivo experiments, ending with the final tests on human volunteers, which are actually the most important. while you are perfectly right about the differences between the various phases of…

  Posted in Nationwide NPO works to protect animal rights at 03:59 PM JST - 3rd September

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  timeon at 01:44 PM JST - 3rd September

  so Cleo, how do you expect researchers in medicine, biochemistry, pharmacy and so on to go on with their research without mice? personally I never worked and never met around my lab anybody working with other animals than mice, and I think you need many approvals to work with monkeys…

  Posted in Nationwide NPO works to protect animal rights at 01:44 PM JST - 3rd September

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  timeon at 12:11 PM JST - 2nd September

  “I would like him to teach me fencing and we can talk about jeans together.”

  how fascinating. anybody wanna go for a beer and a nice talk about jeans?

  Posted in 'Best Jeanists' announced at 12:11 PM JST - 2nd September