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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timtak
Ohta often makes rude jokes. E.g., that saying that he is interested in "joshi no (Ohta's quick ad-libbed addition) ana" meaning "female television announcers" and a rude pun. Evidence of being unsatisfied, or reaction formation?
Posted in: Comedian Hikaru Ohta’s wife admits sexless marriage
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timtak
I think that if I were Japanese I would be sick of it and the whole caboodle.
English: Company and product names in English, and marketing slogans mentioned here, English learning test taking, lack of funding for making the Japanese language international Appearance: blonde hair, eye make-up glue to make eyelids double, nose thinning pegs, blue contact lenses, Import of western philosophies: meritocracy, individualism, self-esteem, women's lib (Japan needs men's), some neo-liberalism, maybe even "yuai shakai" but I am not sure.
Posted in: What do you think about the way English is used in the branding and marketing of products in Japan?
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timtak
Really tragic. Greater love.
Posted in: Father dies trying to stop son's hydrogen sulfide gas suicide
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timtak
He needs to reduce government spending.
It also seems to me that bureacrats are inappropriately self-confident. Many seem to have little desire to reduce blantant inefficiency even in the face of the massive deficit and government borrowing.
Tōru Hashimoto seems to have achieved some cutting and humbling in Oosaka, so I guess, with a concerted effort, it may be possible and pretty essential, if Japan is not to go bankcrupt.
Posted in: DPJ leader Yukio Hatoyama wants to remove power from the hands of bureaucrats. Can he do it? And is it a good idea?
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timtak
It will be great if it is allowed in Japan. The other services are not, as far as I know.
Posted in: YouTube may offer online movie rentals
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timtak
I can't really tell the difference between Hatoyama and his predecssors except that instead of handing out moneyh to postal/construction/agricultral workers, Hatoyama (or his wife) plans to hand out the money to their wives, so long as they are mothers.
KakaaTengoku Japan here we come. Perhaps this is the real Japan. Jimintou and the prewar reign of old men was perhaps an abberation.
Posted in: OK, Mr Hatoyama, you're in -- now govern
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timtak
The Japanese system works well for me. The UK system was a bit dog eared but the staff were dedicated.
In both the UK and Japan waiting times work both as a barrier to proper care, and as a deterrent to over treatment. I think that when medical treatment becomes free then waiting lists are inevitable.
Posted in: Health care is a hot topic for debate in many countries. What do you think is the best system?
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timtak
That there are 3 million articles on Wikipedia is a great thing, but why only 3 million?
While being an online resource, with few theoretical limits, Wikipedia maintains a policy of being "encyclopedic", rejecting "trivia", and articles that are not "noteworthy" enough.
Meanwhile Wikipedia's commercial cousin, wikia, which accepts such trivia uses catch copy along the lines of 'you have seen the encylopedia. Now read the "the rest of the library."'
So, while claiming to provide knowledge to everyone for free, by being self-limiting, (limiting itselt to being like an encyclopedia) wikipedia seems to create a market place for commercialising the distribution of knowledge. But then Wikia's source of income is only text adverts. Clever stuff.
Posted in: English Wikipedia hosts three millionth article
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timtak
Amazing upper body musculature too, especially for a 22 year old.
Posted in: Bolt wins 100 in world record time of 9.58 seconds
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timtak
I like it! It is a sort of critique on the kimono. The kimono always been fetishistic, bondage apparel, masking the feminine under all those layers of cloth, under that self-satorising belt, so that women can hardly open her legs even to walk. As Ogata seems to suggest, this costume deconstructs the delusion of the 'pure kimono'. Kimono are and have always been sexy.
Good luck to Yoshiyuki Ogata in his push to bring back Japanese style to clothing. Send Jeans and Engrish T-shirts back to where ever they came from.
Posted in: Barrage of complaints force Miss Universe Japan to change costume design for finals
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timtak
Why didn't the student come to school for three days? Post Chalk Shock?
Posted in: Teacher gets pay cut for putting chalk in yawning student’s mouth
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timtak
British football hooligans have a group-think so brain numbing and individuality destroying that they kill. The dance that Japanese fans do it is peaceful, artistic, and free-thinking in comparison.
Son stands on someone elses stuff, gets pwned. Dad chooses to take it out on the Japanese in generally calling them Zombies. Nice. Sadly typical. I am ashamed of this author.
Posted in: The cheering gets nasty at a pro baseball game
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timtak
"that uses an analog thermometer face" >> In addition to time, the clock includes an analogue display of temperature (and barometric pressure).
Posted in: Radio-controlled alarm clock
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timtak
Spudman is very knowledgable about mama chari's. What Timeon says is sad but true.
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timtak
A widespread joke perhaps http://www.newstin.com/rel/us/en-010-016046360 I'm British, incredulous and have written to TNS Infratest and Expedia, who funded the survey, to ask for the results.
Posted in: Pushy French are world's worst tourists; Japanese are top: study
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timtak
Where is the original survey? I can't seem to find it. Either by searching the global site http://www.tnsglobal.com/ Or http://www.tns-infratest.com/branchenundmaerkte/verkehrtourismustransport.asp
Posted in: Pushy French are world's worst tourists; Japanese are top: study
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timtak
Why is it that Japantoday keeps posting news about US airlines. From the heading I thought this would be about Japanese airlines. If you are going to write about a non-Japan related country then at least put that country name in the title.
Posted in: Meltdown 101: Will airlines go bankrupt?
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timtak
I think that the Japanese rendered here as “The man who did this has already died.” was, "Shinda jibun ga yatta." which means, A dead me when I did this. Or perhaps, "I was dead (drunk) when this was done".
Posted in: MSDF seaman arrested for rape, theft after breaking into Hyogo brothel
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timtak
InakaRob The Japanese do seem to be very moral on the whole. But at the same time there may be a shift in the types of immoral behaviour. Theft, drugs and violent crime are very low, but political and white collar crime (c.f. Transparency international) is quite high. Copyright abuse, plagiarism, and fraud may also be fairly prevalent. Copyright laws are less strict so one can rent CD's and copy them without even infringing the law. I am not sure how much American college students copy other students work, but here it is extremely popular. How about lying? The concept of the white lie seems to have been extended to quite a significant degree. On the whole even so, I think that there is a higher standard of personal morality here in Japan, but also there is a shift in the "crimes" that are considered to be important.
Posted in: Hung jury
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timtak
There is research that shows that the murder rate increases in the months following the announcement that executions have taken place in Japan. I.e. rather than a detterent, the death penalty seems to augment violent crime. The authors conclude these results imply that the abolishment of capital punishment will not increase the homicide rate but decrease it. Therefore, retention of capital punishment is not meaningful in Japan if its detterent effect is the major reason for its retention. In Japan no studies have been conducted to examine the effect of capital punishment, but public opinion has supported the (supposed) deterrent effect and thus its retention. Although the data of this study have limitions, we argue that they are meaninful enough to make Japanese people consider the lack of evidenence for public opinion. At present Japanese people do not seem to have strong reasons for believing in the deterrent effect of capital punishment.
http://tinyurl.com/4pn2bb
Akira Sakamoto, Kiyoko Sekiguchi, Aya Shinkyu, Yuko Okada (2003) "Does Media Coverage of Capital Punishment Have a Deterrent Effect on the Occurence of Brutal Crimes? An Analysis of Japanese Time-Series Data from 1959 to 1990". in "Progress in Asian Social Psychology: Conceptual and Empirical Contributions" By Guoshu Yang, Paul B. Pedersen. Greenwood Publishing Group.
Posted in: Hung jury