JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
-
- 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
-
- 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*
-
- Translator
- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
- Salary: ¥6.0M / Year Negotiable
0
tsurubushi
The only tablet that has a real chance against the iPad is the Fujitsu Q550, and that's only because they are going for the business market, and put in all the right features for such. Full disclosure: I own neither Fujitsu nor Apple products, but have literally no use for anything Apple puts out. Fujitsu...maybe, as the Q550 might well come in handy in an enterprise setting. As for this attempt by Sony, the little one is a mistake, and the bigger one isn't really offering anything new that other companies don't already have.
Posted in: Take two tablets
0
tsurubushi
NPR had Reagan's budget director on, and he was pretty clear that both sides are wrong (and both are lying to the middle class). I tend to agree. We can't do just taxes or just cuts, but we need to do both.
Posted in: Obama says Republican budget 'wrong for America'
0
tsurubushi
Just what the Union folks don't need, another sideshow distraction.
As for the pensions/healthcare/stuff: they get the pensions as a form of delayed wages. If they were doing the same job in the private sector, the theory goes, they would be making more, and contributing more. But because government pay is so low (contrary to popular belief, they are actually paid relatively low wages). The days of cushy government jobs is long over. Just ask my old mail delivery guy. he was making a decent paycheck, but they had cutbacks, and now we get a different guy making a small portion of what the UPS guy gets, and he doesn't get benefits. Any wonder half of my mail gets delivered wrong?
As much as we Wisconsinites share your concern, America, you can keep your Michael Moore and your Sarah Palin. We don't want either of them.
Posted in: Michael Moore rallies pro-union protesters in Wisconsin
0
tsurubushi
what, no "best apple-ist"?
Article Unavailable
0
tsurubushi
Three cheers and +1 Internets for Gurukun. If you have to chisel it off of your face, it is too much.
Posted in: Meet Aki, queen of the 'gyaru-mama'
0
tsurubushi
war dialing for lazy people. Or fanservice rules the universe? Ah, who cares. No one will remember this gimmick in 2 months anyway.
Posted in: Wi-fi taxi
0
tsurubushi
is it wrong that I am tempted to satirically yell, "No JT, it's Best Dress-IST! Get it right!"?
Posted in: Emi Takei becomes youngest ever winner of Best Dresser Award
0
tsurubushi
elbudamexicano - the "Cow"-pis has been fairly common since 2001, minimum. That's when I first heard people making jokes about it. maybe your ears are just better than most.
Posted in: Calpis hot ginger
0
tsurubushi
"From Left: Japanese..." If left means liberal and right means conservative, do we have the proper spectrum?
Posted in: Photo op
0
tsurubushi
m5c32 - War (and combat in general) has often been described by combatants as being more erotically charged than sex. Tick put it well in his "war and the Soul", saying, "When we study the roots of war, we find this relentless darkside of eros at work." and "War transforms a combatant's relations to love and sex, and to beauty and order and form, in a way that compromises some of the most difficult dimensions of the survivor's inner world." both on p. 122, for those of you so inclined.
Elbudamexicano's central point stands, even if his suggestion of a separate all-gay army is ridiculous. Let the military sort this out on their own. They have been better at integration than civilian society in most other things (religious integration and racial integration both happened in the military before they happened in the civilian world).
Actually, the use of the courts to force this on an an uneasy military population will, in reality, lead to more recrimination, more discrimination, and more suffering for gays in the military. Expect more problems in the ranks if this trend continues. Why is it so hard for gays to wait for Sec. Gates to come out with his report? Why take it to the courts, who will hand down chaos in the wake of this ruling? The military is working on it, and will come out with a balanced, reasonable, gradual plan. But patience is clearly not a virtue for some people.
Posted in: Obama weighs fast appeal of gays-in-military ruling
0
tsurubushi
Lunchbox - it's the Best Motherist award. Gotta get it right, now. /Sarcasm.
Posted in: Hello Kitty telegrams
0
tsurubushi
maybe the new domino's pizza hasn't made to to Japan yet. Domino's in the states realized that their pizza needed some work, and I have to give them credit. They admitted it, changed the recipe, and now have a pizza that puts Pizza Hut to shame. As in, I don't need to go to Pizza Hut when i can get a better pizza at Domino's for the same price. And no, I'm not a Domino's shill. I used to think their pizza sucked (cardboard crust, runny ketchup sauce, low-grade toppings and choices), but I tried one of their new ones and it kicked the pants off of Pizza Hut. At least for chain store pizza. If I want a real pizza, I'll go to a real pizza shop. Hopefully, they'll send that one to Japan soon as well.
Posted in: Domino's Pizza launches English website
0
tsurubushi
Ossan -
agreed. put the information out in the public sphere and let the Japanese people figure out what they want to do with it. No more of this "we think it's bad, so your country should ban it" nonsense.
Posted in: Threats keep dolphin protest out of Taiji
0
tsurubushi
Frungy is right. There are some things the public doesn't need to know. If it needlessly endangers human lives that are not our own, we don't need to know, and we really don't have a right to know, either. What about the privacy of individuals? WikiLeaks has neither the manpower nor the resources to remove all names (particularly of the Afghans who are helping stabilize their country). It is clear already that WikiLeaks does not look at the context (particularly in their sensationalizing) and see that they are more hurting their cause than helping it. Why? Because now the crackdown will be even harder. You know what an ordeal it is to get a security clearance now? With this, they have pushed their own cause back 20 or 30 years, as more draconian measures will be (if they aren't already) put in place to make sure this information does not get out.
Actually, I have two gripes about WikiLeaks. First, they put all of this out there and don't give the public the context of the situation. It's all about making sure people are lead deliberately to the wrong conclusions - that is to say, whatever Assange wants them so see. Second, although there is no paper trail showing Assange is getting these secret documents and then only placing the ones that they wanted in public view, that is what they are doing. Ultimately, it is a biased organization that wants to skew the information in the direction they want it to go. You don't think that cables showing successes in Afghanistan would make it to WikiLeaks Latest Leaks section, do you? How about if someone leaked documents showing that Company X was secretly stealing money from their CEO and donating it to fund a public library in Nebraska? Nope, even though they are doing it in secret, it would never make it up there. Why? because that isn't scandalous enough. It doesn't pass the "we're shamelessly promoting ourselves as givers of information, but really we only show you what we decide you should see" test.
The difference between the government and Assange? The government is at the very least bound by the rules of law. Assange is a immoral clown who does what he wants and runs like a coward to avoid the consequences of his actions. If his cause was seriously noble, if he really thought his goal was good, he wouldn't run. He wouldn't need to.
Posted in: Plugging the WikiLeak: What can U.S. government do?
0
tsurubushi
It's easy people - water balloons (or other such thing) to the speakers. Practice on the annoying but slow-moving ones first (work on aim, if it misses the speaker, it's useless. Then work your way up to stealth/sneak attacks on the black vans. Maybe a super soaker would be a better idea for them. To be clear, don't aim at the truck, only the loudspeakers (when they are mounted externally). Probably a concealed location would be a good idea, too. They put up with no nonsense, but if they can't find you, they can't get you. I always hated the political ones oozing like a slime mold past my university with their propaganda at 100+ decibals. Short out the speakers on those ones, and life is good. I heard coca-cola does wonders for electronic circuitry (kills a laptop), maybe that's another tactic. pretend to trip and "spill" one right into the speakers if they are low enough...
Posted in: It’s time to get rid of sound trucks
0
tsurubushi
ben4short - the military delegates caring for service members to those of us in the Chaplain Corps. And we take it seriously. That said, we can't control the management at national cemeteries. We do funeral rites and family care, and we have to hope that the cemetary management is competent. MrDog - unfortunately, it is a problem when the management can't keep track of simple records. You'd think it would be easy (name, date, plot #). It seems like something that could easily be put into an Excel spreadsheet or similar database and easily brought up. Usually, it goes unnoticed unless a family member visits and can't find their relative.
on a side note, I agree with all the comments suggesting that this article is not particularly well-written.
Posted in: As many as 6,600 US military graves mixed up
0
tsurubushi
Zurconium - "The liberals on this board knew this before, during and immediately after the tragedy"
And because they knew it, they had a higher responsibility to stop it. They failed. Various administration lies/justifications do not change the fact that those who knew didn't go as far as they needed to in order to stop it from happening, but they dropped the ball.
SuperLib - "In all reality what I wanted to see was a coordinate world effort to remove men like Saddam from power. Unfortunately, I just don't think that is going to happen."
Has anyone ever stopped to think about the probability that some peoples/nations just don't function without a "strongman" in charge? They are simply too chaotic in nature to hold together without one. Democracy? Will never work for some. The 9/11 - Saddam connection was always tenuous at best, but the real issue, as you say, is deeper.
Posted in: Ex-MI5 spy chief: No link between Iraq and 9/11
0
tsurubushi
Let us all take a moment to pray this doesn't become the next Elmo.
Posted in: Bowwow
0
tsurubushi
SuperLib - it isn't trivial. Poor judgement on that level shows the opponent a glaring weakness in our system, and would have provided them with a wedge to drive between our own forces. He's lucky he didn't have UCMJ thrown at him. As a military officer, he was trained never to let his guard down among reporters, no matter where they come from. While he is in uniform, everything he says and does is seen as representing the official policy of the military. Reporters have one job, according to the military: to create conflict and burn whoever/whatever they are reporting on. He knew that. As a Chaplain, I know that. The military train all officers to first avoid the media, and then if cornered, say nothing important. You don't say anything of "value" to a reporter, or when there is a reporter present for tactical reasons. Even in this post, I have to be aware that my words can and will be taken and misconstrued and used for whatever purpose, and therefore I have to consider the impact of each word. He has a PAO (public affairs officer) for a reason... Gen. McChrystal failed, and he took the consequences.
Posted in: Obama fires McChrystal; Petraeus picked for Afghanistan
0
tsurubushi
Come on Stratu23, you know you can't eat a proper mystery meal without new Meiji brand Yeti-natto (TM).
Sarge, If you have to ask...it'll probably wreak havoc on your innards for longer than rush hour traffic in L.A. I suggest avoiding it.
Posted in: U.F.O. pork curry