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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trinklets2
One thing I like about Mr. Ishihara is that he isn't afraid to speak out his mind. I just wish he could carry on.
Posted in: Ishihara says he is ready to help new political party change Japan
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I rmember in the 90's when the tax was raised to 5%. The plan then was to raise it to 10% in 2010. Better collection and streamlining expenses shld also be considered not just raising the taxes.
Posted in: Ozawa criticizes Noda for consumption tax hike plan
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trinklets2
Yakuzas are human beings too. Why should they be banned in paying homage to any deceased yakuza friend or mentors? Without this news I wouldn't have known that there are groups who visit the temple to pay respect to fellow yakuza. Is consoling and paying respect to the dead been out of fashion now? Or the shrine staff fear gang wars would destroy a world heritage site? And to Boris Yarovoy, Yakuza don't need no religion? Yakuzas are human beings too. I think human beings who are in any kind of religion believe in a Supreme Power that is God and for that no matter how bad they are, they are still redeemable. After all the Yakuzas are plain workers on the other side of the fence.
Posted in: Shiga temple bans visits by gangsters
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trinklets2
And he 's lean. I'm also surprise to hear clogged arteries. Hope they reach their 80's as healthy as an ordinary Japanese.
Posted in: Media raise concerns over emperor's condition
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trinklets2
Back in 1995 when my son was in kindergarten in Tochigi, his school ran a fund drive by collecting aluminum cans. It was said to fetch 10 yen. And I agree, those plastic bags are not lined up for collection. Amazing how neatly packed they are. In my country, they are sold by the kilo. Hence some wily homeless people would intentionally put rocks inside the can to make it weigh more.
Posted in: Can collection
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trinklets2
The woman is just a common law wife with 3 children and committed suicide with her parents and children? Very suspiscious.
Posted in: More details emerge over 6 bodies found in burned-out car
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trinklets2
Thank you so much Kochikame San for the detailed info.
Posted in: Brazilian held over fatal hit-and-run in Nagoya
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trinklets2
The news says those countries aren't signatories to the convention re protection of foreign workers. It is naive to insinuate that once a country is a signatory then there is outright protection of foreign workers. And as for those Fil seamen, I have a nephew who got on the ship for the first time and received only around 10,000 pesos or around 200 US dollars. He was a graduate of a 4-yr course on maritime. And is he well protected? I doubt it. But then the experience he'd gain and personal enrichment are good enough rewards. He's not complaining. One of the reasons why there are a lot of Fil seamen. Compared to the others back home where some college graduates are jobless, they are better off. But compared to the Jseamen or other western seamen they are behind. So where is that protection really? Just press realeases with no real meaning at all!
Posted in: Philippine workers banned from 41 countries due to abuse
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trinklets2
On a Sunday at around 4 am? Fresh and overtired from work or sleepy and drugged/drunk from wherever? Surely being a Nikkeijin is a lot of fun, huh! And media identification by nationality is not just a monopoly of Jpeople, in my country as in other countries, headline news almost always pinpoint the nationality of the perpetrator if he is foreign.
Posted in: Brazilian held over fatal hit-and-run in Nagoya
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trinklets2
God bless that man whoever he is.
Posted in: Mystery Tohoku donor leaves Y40 million in town hall toilet
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trinklets2
And with regards to salary, most probably they'll be paid similar to the trainees. Something like 60,000 or 70,000 yen a month. There are a lot of so called NEETs. What most leaders and business owners want is somebody so fool and so meek subordinates to channel their stresses not necessarily bodied and abled.
Posted in: Thousands of flood-hit Thais to be allowed to work in Japan
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@serrano, "they'll get paid in yen and they'll be rich after a few months." That would only be true if they won't spend a single yen in rent, food, taxes, insurance. If they could scavenge waste food from bake shops, supermarkets, convenience stores and restaurants. In doing so they'll take away the food of some Jhomeless people. Or they would steal food and even te bukuru and toilet papers from the factories they'd be working for. What a life! And the news said they'd be allowed here if the companies could ensure they'll be going back to their home countries. And do you think most will? And only for 6 months ? Can't believe it! Remember the Monbusho scholars? The stipulation I think is for the scholars to go back to their home countries and apply to their home base the knowledge and technology learned here. But do all of them do that? And those who do not are never asked to pay back. Tsurui desu ne!
Posted in: Thousands of flood-hit Thais to be allowed to work in Japan
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trinklets2
If only I get to know a lot of Jpeople like them. My wholeheartedly congratulations!
Posted in: Empress marks 77th birthday
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trinklets2
@staying in place, I agree with you. I remember seeing a video while the tsunami was underway, and a dog was desperately running for its life yet it was engulf finally with the waves. I felt a sense of sadness and helplessness and I could almost say baka koto na yet inside me I was not really swearing at the dog. I never know anybody personally though I worked somewhere in Fukushima yrs ago but I feel despair for them.
Posted in: Hirano under fire for calling tsunami victims 'idiots'
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trinklets2
Begging money for food? What would you think of a couple of old ladies in their 60's or 70's who often would stand near the ticket vending machines of a major eki here in my place who would approach unsuspecting victims and tell the story of wanting to go to Nagoya but that her money wasn't enough. I can never be sure though if they're real Japanese as some have just the citizenship although by blood they're a bunch of gaijins like us. I'm sorry but my sharing is quite off topic. Although it is about begging for dough.
Posted in: Osaka man arrested for forcing son to beg on street
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When we make statements, it is always in relation to something else. Maybe it won't create opposition if we would just say Japan is still SAFER inspite of these things. Around 8 yrs ago in my country, 3 homeless young men were beheaded by no other than a corrupt policeman/men. And still so many horrendous crimes over there. That's why I say, Japan is still a safe country. Worst crime news gets to be a feeder in every discussion show simply because they are out of ordinary. Peaceful living still prevails. I love it here and I'll love it more had I understood the language well.
Posted in: More body parts found in Hiratsuka
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trinklets2
Maybe high on drugs?
Posted in: 3 youths arrested for bludgeoning mother of female friend
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trinklets2
And those people in power are belittling and fighting over name and money matters. How could they ever be hard hearted when this will go on for even hundred years? Fighting for self interest and greed when even their descendants' descendants will feel the pang of their misdeeds!
Posted in: Contaminated soil found outside Fukushima no-go zone
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trinklets2
I read somewhere about Chernobyl that there are ghost towns which are hundreds of km from the nuclear mishap. Hence a no -go zone of just 20 or 30 km is questionable or am I overestimating things. Or some people haven't come across the pictures of Chernobyl and its populace and animals after the accident? Even I'm here in Aichi I don't feel safe too with the food and water I take everyday not even if I ever decide to go back to Manila. Where do you think the by product of cooling down the reactors would go? Why do you think some big factories are situated near rivers or oceans? Very scary indeed!
Posted in: Contaminated soil found outside Fukushima no-go zone
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trinklets2
Surigao is now at the spotlight after Lolong. Surigao is part of Mindanao Island which is refuted to be rich in natural resources. Trouble is political instability in the area courtesy of both Christian and Muslims militants hinders its growth. Western and Japanese outreach programs just feed these militants esp the muslims for secession. Civilians have to play around paying taxes maybe to both of them or to whoever is prominent in the area. These Christian insurgents will never lose ground having sympathizers from some political and religious personas. And they will never lose recruits as young people are basically idealistic and easily swayed and that holding an armalite is a sure way to get money and provisions from simple people who just want to live peacefully. Attacks like this where there is foreign interest reach the media. How about small scale massacre in far flung villages that nobody ever heard. It's scary just knowing things like this do happen in the country I was born with.
Posted in: Japan, Australia worry over mine attacks in Philippines