JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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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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timtak
The match will be shown live on Asahi Television group stations at 10:20pm, as far as I can tell.
Posted in: Japan faces host Qatar in Asian Cup quarterfinals
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timtak
@ skipthesong "Why should I pay for a full medical insurance when my wife, a doctor can take care of almost every ailment I may have and anything on the low end, including dental up to root canal can be handled by me? "
Good question. While I may well come down with something serious very soon, it seems to me that up till now (I am 45) doctors are the people with the key to the antibiotics. All they do is ensure that I do not over use them. In order to get antibiotics I must go to a doctor.
However, are the republicans proposing, with their rejection of the bill, that there will be greater freedom of access to medical care (e.g. rights to self-administer antibiotics to all those that pass an exam, or right to have stitches put in by a nurse, greater prescription powers to pharmacists?)
Or should one oppose force health care because it is unfair on health professionals?
Posted in: U.S. House votes to repeal Obama's health care law
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timtak
Sting is right. Dialogue is prpobably the only way to convince Westerners.
And Westerners dialogue among themselves. Google "eat the whales" for PETA's (yes, PETA's!) take on whale hunting, which i think can be applied to dolphin hunting; dolphins may take a day to die in Taji but before that they are free, but many or most cows and pigs are born to live their whole lives in battery farm hell.
USAkuma "I would love to get an accounting of JapanToday posters who have actually seen dolphin meat at their local Japanese grocery store." I have never seen anything labelled "dolphin (ikura)" but I hear that "kujira ('whale')" is cetacean, and that some of the packs labelled "kujira" contain dolphin meat.
While I approve of whaling and dolphin hunting, it might be a good idea to have labels giving the species of cetacean so that consumers can make an informed choice. Not that it would affect me, but we hear (from the Cove) that many Japanese are against eating dolphin.
Is there any independent data on the number of people that approve of eating dolphin? Personally my guess is that while few of my students want to, or do eat dolphin, very few would approve of banning it. I should do a survey.
Posted in: Sting meets dolphin advocate Ric O'Barry; advocates debate
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timtak
Of the car companies the Toyota horns are better than the the Matsuda M (which looks like it is imitating Toyota), Honda H, Daihatsu D, and the Nissan tube-sign. The Mitsubishi logo is probably lost on non-japanophones and looks a bit too simple and imperial.
Posted in: Which companies' logos do you like and which ones do you think are awful?
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timtak
He may be signed by Liverpool apparently. Google his name and click on News.
Posted in: Time out
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timtak
Japanese whalers should say that they are hunting as they research, and researching as they hunt, to ensure that their hunt is at sustainable levels, and keep hunting.
That they have to call it research (not hunting) may have been how the deal was brokered to them at the start of the moratorium. "You can keep hunting whale at a low leve, under the rubric of research," they were probably told, so they signed.
The hunt is research. But it seems clear to most people that it is also a hunt. The fact that the japanese are using the "tactful" approach, that may have been offered to them, is being used as an excuse for the disgusting behaviour of Sea Shepard's crew.
Be forthright about the hunt, and firm with the terrorists.
Posted in: Whale wars
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timtak
@borscht >Being accused of murder indicates the husband died, but not mention of him being taken to a hospital to be declared dead. Is he
The burnt remains of a man's body were found at the foot of the stairs. Since the husband is missing, it is presumed that they are his remains. Some newspapers simply report that his remains were found.
Posted in: Saitama woman held for murder after setting fire to husband
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timtak
Is it okay to through ashes in the bin? I would prefer the sea option. Is ash scattering in Seto Inland Sea prohibited?
Posted in: Japanese grappling with high cost of death
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timtak
Always a demand: whalers
Posted in: Which jobs are on the endangered species list because of technological advances and which jobs do you think there will always be a demand for?
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timtak
Who was the other woman?
One of the two women was the woman that organised the meeting that Assange was visiting.
He also had sex with another lady.
As a result of having consensual sex with the second woman, Assange then become guilty of molestation vis a vis his relationship with the former (conference organising) woman, I believe. I.e. Sweden seems to have an anti-two-timing-cad law in that, if one has covert sexual relations with two women, then one or both of them can accuse you of molesting them, since 'the cad' misrepresented his intentions, and tricked the women into bed. Am I understanding this correctly?
Posted in: European police on alert for Wikileaks founder
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timtak
This is bunkum. Until westerners came, and so to be (un) civilised they made a law against it, Japanese men and women got their kit off in mixed public baths. Hiding ones body is very unhealthy. Added to that, the Japanese live in the imaginary (Lacan) rather than the symbolic world of words, so to have to hide ones body is like being forced to keep quiet about ones personality. Everyone wants to be loved for the things with which they are ego invested.
If someone complements me on my typing skills, then I won't give a damn because typing is not something I care about. If someone compliments me on my nihonron I will feel a deep warm feeling, because my nihonron is what I care about.
Japanese people in general, and Japanese women in particular are deeply ego-invested in thier bodies. If they have to keep it covered up, then compliments, said or unsaid are going to be few on the ground.
Posted in: Why are Japanese women so eager to bare themselves?
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timtak
I agree that the problem of bullying is far larger in Japan.
It is endemic I believe, because it is, or was, to an extent encouraged as part of the system. There is a book by an old school Japanese educator called something like "Gakkyuu no susume" (or maybe gakkyuukyouikunosusume) which said that teachers should encourage students to see themselves as a group and bring themselves to order.
Posted in: Hokkaido schoolgirl commits suicide, blaming bullying
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timtak
Dr. Fungy. Interesting post, but hoserfella's rejoiner is okay too. Perhaps a lack of sleep among children (or at least far less - how much is a lack?) is part of Japanese culture. If it is Japanese culture then does it need to be called a "complex problem" and would it be a good idea to "solve Japanese culture" in a series of simple solutions. Great stats at the end of Dr. Frungy's post. Bearing them in mind, perhaps it is good that Japanese children sleep less, and kill themselves less.
Posted in: Hokkaido schoolgirl commits suicide, blaming bullying
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timtak
hansei... a culturally conditioned self-reflection illuminating where things went wrong and perverse as it sounds. True. It sounds more perverse that there is no English for hansei.
"The whole system needs to be changed." I think that bullying is also part of the system of using the social dynamic of the class (gakkyuu), intra-peer pressure, to control the class, rather than have the teacher hand out punishment to each individual. I think that the latter is pretty perverse, and encourages young people to believe in an a-social, transcendent, 'higher moral law' - when in fact, imho, morals are about, and begin and end in the art of how to get on with other people.
Unless Japan wants to go down the transendentdal moralist path, I guess they need to accept that there will always be some bullying, and some suicide as a result of that intra-peer pressure, bullying.
All the same, it seems better than other systems that I have made contact with. Does a teen suicide, or murder, make the national press in the UK or the USA?
Posted in: Hokkaido schoolgirl commits suicide, blaming bullying
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timtak
I want a body like that.
Posted in: Happy days
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timtak
Sounds like Sweden has a law against philandering, which sounds harsh. Perhaps someone prosecutors or Lawyers from Sweden may leak some of the harsher aspects of this law.
Posted in: Sweden to issue international arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder
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timtak
I am with buggerlugs, klien2 and fishy. Sad. I hope that Japan makes peace with China and sends these folks home.
Posted in: Son of U.S. Air Force officer found guilty in rope incident case
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timtak
They can be purchased on the Internet, at about 1700 yen a bra or pantie, meaning that this stash has a street value of about 60,000 USD. At least one of the sites advertises wears as having been stolen, so this may be big business.
Posted in: 3,000 pairs of stolen panties found in home of underwear thief
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timtak
Yes...Well, I live in hope that the public comment regarding Taji, will not be barred in the future. Oyasumi.
Posted in: Taiji meeting on dolphin hunt set for Nov 2; public to be barred
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timtak
BurakuminDes I'd agree with you if you mean to suggest that there are coherent ways of responding to all the points that I raised. I think that that I could even debate either side of the argument, though as you point out it would take quite a lot of time to do so. Alas however, it seems to me that such debate does not take place, not only because there is insufficient time, but because the arguments that the fishermen might put forward are deemed irrelevant and or suppressed. This strikes me as being the saddest part of the situation: the one-sided representation of, or suprresion of, the debate, at least in anglophone media, regarding the 'bloody' hunt at Taji. The public, their voice, is indeed, 'barred'.
Posted in: Taiji meeting on dolphin hunt set for Nov 2; public to be barred