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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tmarie
Well said Cleo - though I thought they were raising the taxes to help rebuild Tohoku....
By all means, more daycare centers but lower insurance for low income? How about lower for all and get rid of the brides and roads to no where, the needless roadwork... ?
Posted in: Gov't says revenue from 5% consumption tax hike to be used only for social security
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tmarie
You state that there are no family ties in Japan. You claim it's all a sham. I counter with info about my family and you say
Care to point out where I said "no"? I think you go back and read my threads you'll clearly see I have said that in some family the ties are strong.
Like I said, you're just looking to argue.
Posted in: 'Kizuna' takes many forms in post-disaster Japan, including marriage and infidelity
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tmarie
Rather the kids be with the mother alone, or father, instead of having to deal and hear them fighting all the time over one or the other screwing around outside of the marriage. Or they could have a civil divorce and allow both parents visitation - ha, like that really happens in Japan!
Oh, please. Do you think everyone who enters into wedlock is going to have a perfect marriage? And who are you to stand in judgement? You have no idea what problems they may have encountered. Indeed I don't - more so when it is a shotgun or two very young people who didn't really know each other. Why am I not allowed to judge? I have no idea all of the problems but since it is well known he can't keep it in his pants...
Its no one's business, except their's? Well the fact that they faxed news agencies to let them know... They both fed off the media frenzy of their wedding and kids. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
Posted in: Yu Darvish divorces TV celebrity wife Saeko
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tmarie
Yep, I know it isn't, tmarie already listed the problems in Japanese society and it still trumps America.
How? I asked you how it trumps and you haven't answered. You agreed with my issues and yet think Japan still trumps the US? As a women in Japan, I don't think it does. As a man, I can see how you might think it. I would also now question the "luxury" buying percentage as I think the Chinese are probably consuming more than Japan these days.
Posted in: Entitlements are not rights
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tmarie
On the whole, Japan's economy and sociey is MUCH better off than America's. In many ways I agree with this statement but in many other ways I disagree. What makes you feel it is better? I look at the treatment of women as a whole in society, the divided work force (gender roles, age discrimination and racial discrimination), the xenophobia as a whole, the debt, the education system, the system of kohai/sempai, the DV rates, the lack of support for working moms, those with depression, the declining birth rate, the increasing in the aging population... and I disagree with you.
If you want to talk about crime rates (though not including things like groping and the like), ghettos and cycles of poverty, I would agree with you. Thing is though, Japan is going to be exactly like the US if this trend continues. The sense of entitlement is there and with the issues of aging population and no money, only going to get worse.
Posted in: Entitlements are not rights
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tmarie
It's obvious he wanted out of Japan for a few reasons. Just hope the kids get a chance to spend some time in America with him.
He wants out for the money. From my understanding he doesn't see his kids now so I doubt he'd see them while in the US. They have been separated for a while now - ie, not living together.
Posted in: Yu Darvish divorces TV celebrity wife Saeko
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tmarie
Well said Cleo and Tyler. Tyler, it is sickening isn't it? Thing is, the Japanese public agrees to it so on and on it goes. if anyone needs a smack up the head in regards to this, it is Koizumi's son who people assume will be PM one day because his dad was. Silver spoon, mouth. Entitlement.
Posted in: Entitlements are not rights
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tmarie
GM also needs to say a big thank you to the taxpayer of the US for this. Free cars for everyone?
Posted in: GM reclaims world's biggest carmaker title as Toyota skids
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tmarie
Net, I'm thinking this has more to do with the yen, not the quality. Never again will I own an American car. Crap, crap, crap.
Posted in: GM reclaims world's biggest carmaker title as Toyota skids
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tmarie
What does house size have to do with any of this?
Posted in: Woman, father held on suspicion of burning baby's body in park
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tmarie
Some of you really have no idea about this do you? They've been apart for years now - and it was only a matter of time before the divorce. Rumour has it that he liked his Sapporo's soapland a little too much.
They're both idiots. Dekichatta at all. Use a freaken condom. Bot have the money to buy them but decided not to.
Posted in: Yu Darvish divorces TV celebrity wife Saeko
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tmarie
But I thought JT readers has all pretty much decided it was some crazy women who did it??
Posted in: Police haven't ruled out suicide in severed penis case, media report
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tmarie
My tone has nothing to do with FOB or being here for years. I think perhaps you're looking for things to argue about now.
My attitude is condescending? You don't think the whole thing with 'kizuna" and how it is Japanese isn't??
Posted in: 'Kizuna' takes many forms in post-disaster Japan, including marriage and infidelity
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tmarie
** smithinjapanJAN. 20, 2012 - 12:02PM JST It's a shame he's losing a lot of the money to pay his ex-wife, but 112 Mil is MORE than enough until we see how he performs.
Actually, I don't think his ex-wife is all that much. All he has to pay is child support ("kyouikuhi") for his two kids. He's not paying any "isharyo" and there is no division of property and/or assets. Yahoo! Japan said that basically the divorce was decided on his terms.** Well perhaps if he had kept it in his pants... Dekichatta and a cheater... Seems sex ed was lost on him.
Posted in: Fighters manager says $112 mil too low for Darvish
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tmarie
No wonder Osaka is overrun with organized crime, with such an errant police force. Those of you who claim Osaka to be "safe" need to spend more time here on JT. Random stabbings, you name it, the place must be a nightmare
As someone who lived in Osaka for well over a decade and had a spouse from there, pretty sure I know Osaka well enough to comment that the place is not a nightmare and one of the safes cities of its size - around the world and in Japan. Shame that this jerk makes people question that - that and damn Hashimoto.
Posted in: Osaka assistant police inspector accused of falsifying evidence
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tmarie
Fire him! Like Nicky said.
Osaka is a great place - best place to live in Japan. Crappy if you're a tourist but the locals are great, the food is fantastic and not Tokyo prices or crowds!
Posted in: Osaka assistant police inspector accused of falsifying evidence
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tmarie
Pathetic. Can we please stop paying these people absurd amounts and pay teachers, nurses... more?
Posted in: Fighters manager says $112 mil too low for Darvish
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tmarie
Depends. Some get in on grades - via the recommendation process which has been increasing in numbers - while some get in on the test. It is a really unfair system because the recommendations are mainly at private schools so... you can pretty much buy your way into a decent uni. HS and unis have agreements about numbers because unis are worried about student numbers dropping and HSs get to advertise that they got students into "such and such" a uni. Recommendation students are 100% guaranteed to come whereas test people can change their mind and go somewhere else ricking student numbers. The system is a mess and the test clearly needs to be done away with.
Posted in: Errors result in highest ever number of entrance exams retakers
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tmarie
Who said anything about FOB? Indeed, I do know some shallow people. I live in Japan after all. If creating a catch word for the year and ignoring the actual concept of it isn't shallow, what is?
Well said JW!
Posted in: 'Kizuna' takes many forms in post-disaster Japan, including marriage and infidelity
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tmarie
Tmarie, it's impossible to standardize the grading of the students in all the high schools all over Japan, and that's why they have a standardized exam.
And yet many countries manage to survive with the system I have mentioned...
No need to standardize an exam when... everyone gets in in the end anyway!
Posted in: Errors result in highest ever number of entrance exams retakers