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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tkoind2
Hey Japan!! Learn to interact with other human beings. There are what.....? 38 million people in the greater Tokyo area. Stop ignoring everyone around you and try to make some friends. This country has the worst social fabric of any nation I have visited. And more escapist solutions to that problem, like silly Cat cafes, to help people avoid dealing with other human beings.
No wonder people are unhappy, drink so much and 30,000 a year do away with themselves. People would rather socialize with cats than learn to deal with other human beings.
A smart and better business would be "Friendship Cafes" where people can hand hold others through the process of making human friends.
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tkoind2
sorry. of escapism.
Posted in: Japanese society does tend to reward stoicism and oftentimes emotion is not expressed as vividly as it is in American society. So I think that Twitter ... provided a platform that allowed a nonthreatening way to present your own emotional state.
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tkoind2
How can anyone express anything meaningful in a twitter length comment. It is just one more form or escapism.
Posted in: Japanese society does tend to reward stoicism and oftentimes emotion is not expressed as vividly as it is in American society. So I think that Twitter ... provided a platform that allowed a nonthreatening way to present your own emotional state.
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tkoind2
SamuraiBlue. "Shindler`s List" and "Private Ryan" do deal with Nazis.
That said the other posters do have a point. Japan typically looks at Europe during the memorial periods of the war. That of the victimization of Japan in the two nuclear attacks.
Japan shows a profound degree of cluelessness in dealing with her own history during the war. Electing instead to escapism rather than confronting a very difficult past.
I have far more respect for Germany for how they have dealt with the legacy of war. There is no "poor me" playing the victim going on. Instead the nation looks hard at how Germany initiated the steps to war, carried out barbaric practices and led the nation to ultimate self destruction.
Japan would do well to learn to honestly look at her own history instead of focusing on every one else`s or wishing it away by focusing only on her hardship. Japan initiated the Asian war and her leaders brought on the horrific self destruction that led to so many innocent people on both sides being killed.
The real clowns here are the people who refuse to deal with war honestly and openly.
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tkoind2
ExportExpert "I thought everyone wanted security and safety not just those on the right !"
True, we all want security and safety. The difference is, some of us are willing to invest in making it happen.
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tkoind2
SushiSake3. The sad truth is people like Lieberman2012 don't get that both parties SUCK. Neither party takes care of the working people. And that is the problem. All this partisanship is like highschool rallies before a football game. All they really care about is showing that their flag is the highest flag on the field and their team is the best. The interests of working people be damned in the process.
Sadly we saw that same thinking show just how little they care about the entire global economy. We are led by people with little more common sense than a collection of jocks at a highschool.
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tkoind2
The treatment of W had nothing to do with race, while much of the treatment of Obama clearly does.
W. Started two wars. Obama has been tasked with trying to finish them. People don't like wars, so what do you expect? Just everyone going along wtih such bad ideas? Protests would have happend even if Obama had started a war. I for one would have been there.
Come on Alphaape, the extreme possition of the GOP this last couple years has been very intransigent. And when it was open to compromise the extremist Tea Party lot shot down any hope of working together.
Now let's be clear. I am not a DEM or GOP supporter. I think both parties represent the rich and big business. They do not represent working class people. So I think the nation would be better of if neither won.
That said. I do wish they would think about the needs of working people instead of their idiotic dogmas and try to get some real work done. Like making sure working people can get jobs and have education and healthcare for their families. This is not a left or right position. It is a common man's view of what people need.
But neither party does a good job of looking out for the vast majority of Americans. They are both too busy drawing lines between themselves.
I am sick to death of the partisan BS that plagues American politics. It is nearly as bad as the inept leadership here in Japan. No party in the US has a license on good thinking. It hink both lost their subscriptions to caring for ordinary Americans a long time ago.
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tkoind2
Oracle, labels achieve nothing. Why do you need a label? These are people with issues that clearly gave way to these riots. If you dehumanize them into some kind of category, what do you achieve?
I don't think there is a classical political agenda here. I think there is a pissed off community of people who let their rage run rampant when the opportunity arose. Was this right? No! But it was to a certain degree inevitable. As it is in many urban centers around the world where frustration, anger and outrage are festering.
We cannot diminish this into thuggery alone. While I am sure a good part of it was simple opportunists taking the chance to loot and steal. But the scale and diversity of this mob suggests something else. It suggests underlying motivations that we need to get at and understand.
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tkoind2
At what point did Americans decide that we can achieve our perfect society by cutting off the poor. Instead of trying to resolve the problems that lead to poverty, and instead of trying to share the wealth of society in constructive ways, this idiotic notion that we can ignore problems and leave people to fend has arrisen and is now a major danger to the integrity of our society.
You should be ashamed to think that such thinking is ok. It is far better to invest in the poor to build a community of working, tax paying people who contribute to society rather than allowing the problems to go unsolved and create a segment of society that you end up paying for anyway. Because ignoring them means more law enforcement costs, more emergent social welfare, more general social conflict and issues, more problems period.
You cannot wish these problems away with some 1800's survive of die idiocy. You have to address these problems as facets of society, which they are. And you have to do so in constructive ways that lead to breaking cycles of poverty not perpetuating them.
The right so often goes on about their "Christian Values" but so rarely demonstrates them in practice. Their Jesus taught that if you have two loaves of bread, you should give one to the person who has none. A less you right wingers clearly missed.
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tkoind2
I did not say that we live in a perfectly peaceful world where no outbursts of any scale happen. But I am saying that we have not had the major riots on the scale that we have seen in the Watts and similar level riots.
Part of that is attributable to major shifts in thinking about poverty in the 1970's. But we are dangerously headed back down the road that could indeed lead to greater rioting in the future. The cycle of poverty and growing poor classes pose substantial problems that society seems unwilling to acknowledge or address. Thus the problems fester and threaten to errupt in the future.
The intelligent learning cycle that took place in the 1970's is being buried under the poor sighted policies of the right who want secuity and safety but are unwilling to pay for what is required to achieve it.
Now with regards to race. I have never said we are out of the water of racism. And before you try lumping me in with the DEMs in America. I don't live in America and I am not a DEM.
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tkoind2
Come one Lieberman2012. Under Clinton we had greater prosperity and less deficit than we did under Bush. The right has been instrumental in bankrupting the nation with two pointless wars. All the while empowering the financial industry to rob us blind and put the entire global economy in danger thanks the right's obsession with derregulation.
Well done indeed. All the "Energy" has been from the right. The sad thing is that all that energy has been negative energy making matters far worst than they were before. So if that is indeed your point, then well done GOP for a smashing job of smashing everything to bits.
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tkoind2
"... and they cannot be solved in a few paragraphs, just like one cannot get their complte point across in a few paragraphs." The first rational thing you have said about these people.
I do remind you that we are indeed talking about people. And people who have problems that must be resolved or those problems will come to haunt the rest of society. No one part of society can be fully secure and happy while another suffers in abject poverty. When will you people learn this fact?
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tkoind2
Lieberman2012. How would you arrive at that bizarre conclusion? I was talking about the use of the word "anarchist" do read the posts again. And then we can talk about whose mind needs broadening.
note: Lieberman has a snowballs chance in hell of winning in 2012 for a long, and very good list of reasons. Broadening of the mind? Please.....
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tkoind2
SushiSake3. Well said!
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ExportExpert. As an American having lived in big cities, I also know the demographic we are talking about. But I see them very differently. I see them as people.
I grew up in a depressed area where good paying jobs had left the area and diminished the local economy from middle class to poor in a very short period of time. Most families wanted to work. Wanted to send their kids to school. Some did, like my parents. Others did not.
A generation or two later, the area is far worst than before. Crime, drugs, more unemployment. The cycle of poverty is well entrenched there. Yet the people there still long for better opportunities. But programs for schools have been cut, social programs to engage children in these areas have lost funding and opportunities for jobs have still remained very limited.
The same elements that empowered my family to extract my sister and I from this cycle are now gone. Thus less people manage to break the cycle.
You can dehumanize people all you want. But I have profound faith in the ability of people to pull themselves up when given the tools to do so. Which is simply not happening in enough places.
As for US riots. There have been far fewer of these as we start to better understand how they happen. Read your history and learn.
Finally, you even try to dehumanize those of us with more open minded views as "PC", "Liberal" etc... Yet it is our community that often are the ones taking the steps to help where government and the right fail.
As others have said here. You want security but you don't want to pay the cost to achieve it. I call that cheap and unrealistic thinking. But at its worst it is the worst kind of class elitism, which will inspire more uprisings,
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tkoind2
Alphaape. And just what do you base these assertions on. The treatment of Obama by the right has been shameful from day one. Escpecially from the fringe right who I think have even alienated the most conservative mainstream of the GOP.
There were no winners on that stage. Not a thing to do with Obama. But the simple fact that these are not the kind of stellar leaders that the country needs. These are not people who can reach across the isle to make unity in congress. Nor are the people who will inspire the majority of American's to throw their support behind him. They are lack luster and baggage laden establishment politicians who can and will offer only more of the same.
Working people need real representation. No matter what party it comes from. Not more of the same old nonsense.
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tkoind2
ExportExpert, you keep your head firmly planted in the sand where it is. Don't let the light of reality seep into your very prim and proper world.
Human Target and others have raised good questions. If this is about thuggery, then why doesn't this go on all the time? You would do well to remember that the Watts riots and many other uprisings in the last century were also dismissed by the "head in the sand" crowd as thuggery, criminal chaos etc.....
And yet nearly without exception there were social, political, economic and other factors underpinning the violence.
Does it do you harm to try to get to the bottom of this issue with true insight and understanding? Afterall a rational establishment of governance should desire to assure that such events do not recurr. As such logic demands that we get to the points of the problem and resolve them to assure the safety of the community in the future.
What about reasonable, intelligent problem resolution do you have such a problem with? Does this amount to "hugging" as you so gleefully exclaimed? I think not. Afterall history shows that understanding these incidents helps prevent them happening again. So if what we will now term as "hugging" (just to make sure you are happy with the term) will be defined as investigations into the catalyst and causes of the riots in an effort to assure the future stablity of public safety. Then by all means let us Hug Away.
Second issue: "The label of "rioters" hardly suffices." So you resort to absconding with another, unrelated political movement's word and fulfill the predictions of Orwell in a most admirable fashion. Well done.
How about we call them Republicans instead? After all Republicans have started at least two wars in the last two decades. So it seems fitting to call the rioters something in line with people who begin wars.
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tkoind2
sailwind... What? You accuse others of not making their point when your last post reads like you put it in a blender first.
9/11 is in the past mate. We are talking about the 2012 election and who may best represent the GOP. Like it or not the curren line up is less than inspiring, in most cases. But also full of a not of nuts with bizarre positions.
And you must acknowledge that the GOP is burdened with the extreme views of the Tea Party bunch that have essentially torpedoed anything the GOP have tried to do this year. This is a problem you will need to solve before election time. One I doubt the GOP can easily address.
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tkoind2
lucabrasi. I wish more people would read Orwell. A lot to learn in that book.
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tkoind2
And "Dude" social problems have been the root causes of riots all across history. When the problems are addressed, the riots stop. Fail to solve the problems and you will see more. This is the unvarnished truth.
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