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
I'll take Amazon.com over amazon.co.jp. Co.jp can be pretty late and .com is usually much cheap - even with the postal fee. Rakuten is okay but they spam so much I want to scream!!
Posted in: Online shopping: Have you had any trouble, such as items taking an unusually long time to arrive; they did not arrive at all; they were defective when they did arrive; or they were the wrong items?
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tmarie
So much wasted money.
So, is he finally going to get the divorce? Guess he doesn't plan of help raising his two kids - not that he is now anyway...
Posted in: Rangers have until Jan 18 to sign Darvish
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tmarie
Perhaps the staff had a grudge against the teachers? Teachers at a PTA dinner.... shudder...
Posted in: 21 suffer from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning due to charcoal fire at restaurant
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tmarie
The issue of whaling isn't about race at all. It is about Japan whaling in waters that are not theirs and lying about what they are doing.
I think these guys are great. Bringing unwanted attention from around the world to the issue. Charge them, jail them and follow the law by all means but well done in my eyes!
Posted in: Australian anti-whaling activists could face charges in Japan
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tmarie
I saw very few today too - and was also out at temples and shrines.
I find it pathetic that 20 year olds want to spend 'their" day with Disney characters. Japan really needs to get a grip when it goes to maturity.
Posted in: Coming of age
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tmarie
Gogo, sorry to hear about it all. It is shocking how little sympathy and common sense goes on here. Rules are rules... but we all know that they don't mean anything unless you get caught but even then, a firm bow and an apology here seems to work. Unless you are a foreigner. I hope you speak to someone with a brain when you deal with immigration about this all - or they just give you PR again right away. I'm still waiting for mine but no idea how they will look upon me as I have refused time and time again to go on a spouse visa.
Posted in: Changes coming to foreign registration, visa system
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tmarie
Oldsanno, is that supposed to make the rules okay? Basically what it comes down to is that the foreigners are the only ones propping up this dying sport. How do they thank the foreigners? Make rules about how many there can be. Not exactly a great business model is it?
Posted in: Empty house
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tmarie
Oldsanno, did you read my post? I mentioned Lee and why he brought it up - because his rating with the public in Korea are pathetic and he's grasping at straws now to try and boast his ratings. Bashing Japan always seems to be a good way for Korean politicians to get in good with the Korean public. He of all people should know he'd be told to screw off with the claims. If anything, I thought Japan handled it very nicely. I would've told him to screw off and reminded him that the Korean government took money and didn't pay their people, not Japan.
Posted in: Chinese man held after petrol bomb attack on Japan's Seoul embassy
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tmarie
It's their land to do with what they want whether they get to live on it or visit it. It's theirs to choose.
If it is in a no-go zone, why waste the land and contaminate other places? Seems rather selfish to insist that no one gets to use the land since they don't. By all means compensate them for it but at this point, why would anyone be dumb enough to want to go back?
I just don't get this whole "it is my land/hometown" thing. People move all the time, why does Japan have such strong feelings so land? The whole burial thing too - they get cremated and ashes are spread between places. It isn't like there is a body there.
Posted in: Noda presses Fukushima to accept waste storage plan
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tmarie
15 is young enough for her to get out of that lifestyle and still make something of herself.
But the question needs to be asked as to if she will get any of the help she needs? Arresting her - though nor charging her - could get her some help I think. Doing nothing and looking the other way certainly won't teach her anything.
People are going on about the yaks, sex trafficking... You're average 15 year old girl who is selling herself is doing so of her own free will because she wants the latest bag... To assume this girl was trafficked and control by yaks is stretching it a bit. Certainly those girls do sadly exist but we don't know the details. She could easily be one of the tea coloured hair, "garu" with her skirt hitched up more than happy to make a few bucks of a hard up guy. Hence, if she is, arrest her.
Johns wouldn't exist if girls weren't out there doing the work.
Posted in: 35-year-old man arrested for paying 15-year-old girl for sex
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tmarie
the cayman wall st. organized crime stuff is definitely the more interesting story, but we don't even here about the investigation, Always the way here though isn't it? The most interesting stuff gets swept under the rug and the boring stuff gets hashed out to death.
**I believe all Japanese business executves need to relearn ethics and social responsibility (corporation, emplyees, shareholders, and society as a whole). ** Relearn???? How about learn? These guys in charge have never been honest - and it goes in cycles. The young guys are looking at everything they do and will do the exact same thing if/when they get their paws on power. The cycle continues and they wonder why no one wants to invest in Japan. This could have been Japan's chance to come clean, show the international business community they are sick and tire dof this crap and are going to be serious about it and clean up. What do they do instead? The usual. Deny, sweep, deny, sweep, carry on as usual. It is sickening and this case is just the tip of the iceberg.
Posted in: Olympus sues 19 current, ex-board members for Y16.54 bil in damages
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tmarie
**Didn't you read igor's link? It all depends on a municipal government. In Kanagawa prefecture, since 1992, foreigners (not only zainichi) can take the examination and can be hired by public schools (elementary, middle, high, blind.. school) by law. **
Yippppeeee! ONE prefecture out of 48 allows "us" to teach in the public system.... Excuse me for not jumping over the moon for this. Though yes, I guess better than nothing. Long way to go though compared to countries who have no problems at all with foreigners educating their young ones.
Posted in: Why are Japanese averse to immigration?
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tmarie
Cos, you need to follow the thread better - we aren't just talking business, we are talking about racism in Japan with regards to those who are qualified in other countries (developed nations) who aren't qualified in Japan based on their passport. You can talk about France - fair point and I would complain about it if I lived in France but I don't and haven't - but gave you numerous examples of countries that don't have the same restrictions as Japan. There is no reason why a teacher who is trained IN Japan, speaks the language, shouldn't be hired by the public education system. The only issue is their ethnicity.
No idea why you suggest "Tokyo syndrome" for pointing some issues within the system here. I also find it rather presumptuous that you assume that I live in Tokyo. Is that because I am a foreigner? My husband lived abroad and was treated well and sees the same can't be said for me or other foreigners in Japan. Shame you can't see that and have to resort to snide comments.
Igor, do you have a link for those 200 teachers? I know of zero BOEs that have any. When I was an ALT (2001-2004) foreigners were not allowed to be left alone - based on what numerous teachers and the BOE told me - with students in the public school system. Any idea what they are teaching and why this hasn't opened the door for others? Is it a project or something? Why are they allowed but my Japanese BEd holding friends aren't allowed?
yyj, foreigners can get a temp teaching license (no qualifications needed funnily enough) if their private school applies for it which legally allows them to work alone. However, it is not the teacher's and if they leave the school, they lose it - regardless of if they trained in Japan. My understanding is that non-Japanese are not allowed to sit the prefecture teaching license tests. You don't have to pass this to teach in the public school system though - many new teachers haven't passed it yet - but still, no foreign teachers allowed unless Igor is correct - which is news to me. Would be happy if it was true as their might be a chance things will change in the future.
Posted in: Why are Japanese averse to immigration?
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tmarie
**but my old Sony Vaio notebook has had a hell of a bashing all over South East Asia, Japan, to Europe... for several years, and it's still going strong. ** You are one of the lucky ones then. Mine last about three years and when I went to Yodobashi camera to see about it getting it fixed, I was in fine Vaio company. Seemed everyone there needing help was holding a Vaio. They wanted to charge me more than the computer was worth so I left it, bought an HP and never looked back.
Posted in: Sony's Stringer reportedly to step down as president
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tmarie
This just gets better and better. Yet they are allowing people to stay on and Woodward has quit the fight because of this. Idiots, the lot of them.
Posted in: Olympus sues 19 current, ex-board members for Y16.54 bil in damages
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tmarie
Will, which goes back to asking if the girl was also charged. She knows better.
Posted in: 35-year-old man arrested for paying 15-year-old girl for sex
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tmarie
That is just common sense. Which is why it will be ignored and likely contaminated crap will be shipped all over the country and burned in various areas - for a nice sum I am assuming.
Posted in: Noda presses Fukushima to accept waste storage plan
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tmarie
Seeking redress from one channel doesn't preclude seeking it from another. Well in this case I think it did. The Japanese gave the money over basically stating it was a one time thing. The Korean public can complain about it but the Korean government knows it doesn't have a leg to stand on - which is why it was laughable a few weeks ago when that guy started on about it - he's done in the popularity rankings and knows he's on his way out so why not appear to be on the side of the public knowing full well the Japanese government won't budge.
Kindly provide a link where Japanese government has asked for apology and compensation from USA. I don't see the Korean government asking for an apology. You are comparing apples and oranges. I have seen numerous demos from right wing and the like demanding crap based on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and I have been the victim of pathetic Japanese individuals (always been drunk and middle aged men) having a go at me (a non-American) about Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Do you doubt USA dropped the A-bombs? Can you provide any evidence that J gov't enslaved these women? Can you prove that they were? I don't doubt they did drop it. I have no idea what you are trying to get at with your last two questions. Are YOU suggesting there were no comfort women?
Posted in: Chinese man held after petrol bomb attack on Japan's Seoul embassy
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tmarie
No former comfort woman has ever received a cheque or bank deposit with "Government of Japan" stamped on it as the payor with an attached letter of apology.
No but their government did and with the notion that these women would get some of the money. If the Koreans want to be angry at someone, they need to be angry with their government for not sharing the money the Japanese handed over based on this issue.
Posted in: Chinese man held after petrol bomb attack on Japan's Seoul embassy
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tmarie
Perhaps because the teenage STD rate her is pretty shocking - and if without, they can charge more. Doesn't matter what is advertised. I doubt the ad stated she was 15.
Posted in: 35-year-old man arrested for paying 15-year-old girl for sex