JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Corporate Business English Trainers
- ACT Systems, Inc.（株式会社アクト・システムズ）, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥269,500 ~ ¥280,000 / Month
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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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noirgaijin: what part of contract does Mazda not understand? I would be extremely surprised if Mazda doesn't see another incident like this before the year is up. The current union boss told me directly that I had no right to a lawyer. If I approached a lawyer I would be hurt. The current president who sat glumly throughout Mr. Kurosawa's comments to the press threatened the designated legal advisor to foreign residents in Hiroshima on October 19, 2007. He gloated about how much money Mazda contributed to things in Hiroshima. Asked to comment on whether my claims were legitimate or not he simply said, "Stay away from matters that don't concern you!" I can imagine what is going through their heads at the moment. This guy's problem paled in comparison to the stuff Mazda did to me and a whole lot of other voiceless individuals. Put it to you this way, there's a place in hell reserved only for Mazda HR, legal department, PR, Union, and lawyer.
Posted in: 1 dead, 10 injured after ex-Mazda temp hits 11 plant workers with car
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I just saw Mr. Kurosawa (Mazda auditor) say there was no trouble with the worker. I have spoken with Mr. Kurosawa - he wrote a memo which was leaked to me in which he called me a very dangerous person for Mazda - why? Because he is fully aware of the fraud Mazda pulled on me. This is a seriously sick company that has been abusing people for years! The authorities are running away from us. I was at the police three weeks ago. They told me that theft of my entire contract fees over seven years by Mazda HR is not a criminal matter. How many times this sort of stuff happens in Hiroshima regarding Mazda abuse of people... this man may have opened the flood gate. Mazda is one catastrophe of an embarrassment waiting to happen. My heart goes out to all the victims of Mazda.
Posted in: 1 dead, 10 injured after ex-Mazda temp hits 11 plant workers with car
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Smithinjapan: the negative I am refering to is the calls for parent assistance that simply end with the official "Oyaji" telling the working mums: "Babysitting is an American thing - ask your mother to look after the baby while you go do your errands" - babysitting is virtually prohibited unless special permission is granted by the local authorities. I've heard: "Why are you living far from your friends?"; "Take your child with you if it means so much to you. If the child was that important you wouldn't be leaving it with another person..."; "How old is your child? 3? She's old enough to stay alone for awhile - you7re spoiling the kids these days..."
This is the daily response parents are getting when asking for help from their employers (who force them into unpaid overtime), from the local authorities who demand the parents think about quitting their jobs while laughing "Don't think about coming here for welfare assistance once you quit."
Posted in: 4-year-old boy dies after 12-story fall from Chiba apartment
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Rest in peace Keito. My son's three year old friend fell nine floors last Monday in Hiroshima and died. Attending his funeral was the most gut wrenching experience I've ever been through. The daycare had stressed that the funeral was a private family affair. But on Wednesday morning when I took my little boy in and found not a single sign of the place honoring the boy I spoke with the first mother I saw. She was equally flabbergasted. By ten am my missus had put together a posse of parents not willing to let the little boy go to his grave without his friends saying goodbye. We called around and located the funeral parlor and went for the funeral - from 12. The boys kin were moved by the parents gesture. And I was surprised to find that a man I'd trained ten years ago and who considered himself a good friend of mine was the boy's mothers brother. The boy had somehow managed to open the locked balcony door... We can say all we like about parenting but in a society that thrives on responding to every cry for help with a negative... many more innocent little lives are going to be lost.
Posted in: 4-year-old boy dies after 12-story fall from Chiba apartment
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Reona: I'm coloured to and stunned(!) by you. No wonder the world is in such a mess. How far do you walk in a day?
Posted in: JFA concerned about World Cup ticket sales
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How does sauce come into the question? No wonder diet is such a problem for the simple.
Posted in: Some diet gurus say pasta is good because it is low-fat; others say it's not so good because it's high carb. What do you say? Is it a healthy dish?
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Marcel: Bingo. And when I want to go there for soccer the travel agency is telling me the tour includes three days at Victoria Falls, two nights in the Okavango, two nights along the Skeleton Coast and a number of secret stop overs added for a surprise. The tour goes through four countries and I only want to go to two cities in SA!
Posted in: JFA concerned about World Cup ticket sales
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A Slumber Machine - definitely! Woodie Allen used it in "Sleeper". Anyone remember? I lived in Boulder Colorado and part of our morning training runs went past the Sleeper house - the mushroom shaped house. Sometimes we ran up to NCAR - scene of the famous escape... And not a single run went without one of us asking where we could acquire one of them gadgets.
Posted in: When you were younger, which inventions or technological developments did you think we would now have in 2010, but which have not come to pass?
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The bomb was made under Bush and Cheney's watch. Obama is now putting a crimp in Iran's game plan. The Bush plan was to wait for the bomb as it flew over Warsaw or Prague. They never thought it would go to Israel directly - Cheney thought it would fly over the north pole and down to Tel Aviv. Ahmadinejad has discovered a new weapon of mass distruction - talk radio. He is using talk radio style for doing his dirty work.
Posted in: Iran derides Obama's 'cowboy' nuclear stance
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When uninformed or out of the loop - don't debate. This problem has been affecting Japanese brands for ten years now. At Mazda we identified the exact cause in December 2005 and did a mass recall in Venezuela. Not a single recall was done in the US. ANd Ford knew about the problem back then. They still do. The part maker is a Japanese company and is the only supplier to the industry. There is no US maker of the part. Infact there is no US expert in the field. Not even at NASA - the technology is also used by Airbus. It is super dangerous because it was never perfected by the maker. I have done loads of jobs for the part maker - and all the jobs clearly indicated Toyota had a huge problem with suddenly accelerating vehicles worldwide. I've been saying for some time if somebody offered me the right price I'll sing like a canery. And my apologese to sjfp330 and a few others for being mean to them. I was mean in that I knew that you weren't aware of what the actual technology flaw is attributed to. This is my final post on the subject.
Posted in: LaHood says Toyota is 'safety deaf'
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sfjp330: come on show a litle more self respect. You're flogging a dead horse. Toyota had Kazakstan ahead of the US on the recall. Is there more to say?
Posted in: Toyota hit with $16 mil fine over recalls in U.S.
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And they should demand it be paid in crisp $20 bills only.
Posted in: Toyota hit with $16 mil fine over recalls in U.S.
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Debucho. Wait for what findings? Americans got the ex-brother-in-law treatment from Toyota. How does it feel to be behind Kazakstan, Turkey, Georgia... in the recall? La Hood should be ashamed for going lightly on these criminals from Nagoya.
Posted in: LaHood says Toyota is 'safety deaf'
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sfjp330: "Ok expert, Explain exactly what is went wrong with this San Diego accident of ES350" Don't quite follow you - must sudden unintended typos eh? Explain? I can in explain it in one of two ways - the other I cannot unless paid for it. The one that I can tell you is that the vehicle took control of itself. How it did that is my secret. Please sfjp330 trust me on this one. We may be indisagreement here but when I do explain for a fee I'll treat you to a night out on the town. The Sikes Prius had a similar incident but he was one of the lucky few. What the phenomenon does is that it leaves virtually no evidence of the incident - Toyota know this and so they're saying Mr. Sikes lied. Toyota are the liars. Regardless of how hard he pushed on the brakes nothing would happen with the actual brakes themselves. That is the curse of the car. Toyota have begun to use this con on NHTSA and Darrel Issa. When the fact is exposed I don't want to be a Toyota executive.
Posted in: Toyota disputes critic who blames electronics
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****sfjp330:** Exponent were used by Toyota to say Toyota's nonsense about Professor Gilbert. I know for a fact what is causing the sudden acceleration and I challenge Toyota and Exponent to prove that I don't know. Professor Gilbert demonstrated that electrical surges cause a serious malfunction - that was all he was supposed to prove because Toyota said no such malfunction could occur during a power surge. Heck sfjp330, I have ten years experience in this specific technology alone. And the makers say it is safe from electrical surges. What did exponent argue? He shaved the wires. Of course he did, to duplicate what has happened in the market. Are you forgetting that during these current recalls Toyota claimed that wires were prone to premature chaffing from friction caused by contamination build-up?** What was the December recall attributed to? Wires worn bare by rubbing against other parts of the vehicle. And your claim of no evidence that it is happening anywhere else in the world is total bunk. The UK has it, France has reported it. Venezuela demanded Toyota explain two months before the US even figured out that Toyota was in serious trouble. How long have you been following this story?
Posted in: Toyota disputes critic who blames electronics
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Fredster: Before you go jumping to conclusions I suggest you follow the story first. Gilbert was officially commissioned by Safety Research and Strategies to conduct the study on behalf of undisclosed clients. Professor Gilbert was very accurate in his findings. I will prove it sometime soon that Exponent Inc. were the ones that had nothing. What the world needs to know is that Toyota continues to tighten the noose around its own neck every time Toyota 'proves' its innocence. I said a month ago that every auto maker using the same part from the same supplier faces the same problem. These recalls for the silliest reasons should be raising suspicion. The strange thing is Toyota never mentions the supplier - Toyota stock tanks while the supplier's is gaining every day. I've watched it since October last year.
Posted in: Toyota disputes critic who blames electronics
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Oh no... Indy get ready for fist fights. This guy is going to get decked within the first season - he is totally reckless as a driver hence no F-1 teams want him.
Posted in: Takuma Sato shifts into IndyCar Series
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sfjp - Ford was only brought back into the firm when a board revolt booted out Nasser and his other foreign execs - the Brits and Aussies had taken over Ford. You don't know the company do you? The family believed Firestone couldn't have cheated on the tyres. But the truth was that major fraud had occurred. In fact Firestone had died ten years before and the name sold to Bridgestone which figured it would be easier to enter Detriot through a US front brand name. Venezulea produced the evidence for Nasser - fellow Lebanese people down there had personally proven the fraud - five ply tires with three ply etc... ANd there was no pressure problem. The tires were monsterously dangerous. Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and Venezuela uncovered the Bridgestone scam. I'm really surprised that you have no idea about this - I was a field quality assurance consultant during the crisis. We (Ford and Mazda) were struggling to contain the fallout a full two years before the Ford family would allow the name Firestone to be mentioned! Remember Harvey Firestone's daughter was Edsel's mother. Look at the pictures of the trouble tyres and see for yourself. Take a look at the cut-away samples that prove material defecancy - wire banding, nylon and rubber all missing to save Bridgestone costs. And the tyre maker had actually falsely written the wrong size on the tyre moulds. This was fraud. But Ford helped Bridgestone to beat the rap. Infact Ford stupidly took the fall for it. Just like Toyota is taking the fall for the yet unmentioned part maker.
Posted in: Toyota pledges to take safety 'to the next level'
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some14some: the fear is that the Toyota flaw is in all makes using the same part by the same supplier. And Ford is no exception. Nissan has just recalled half a million units for it.
Posted in: Toyota's pain boost sales of rivals in U.S. in February
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sfjp330: On and to answer your Bill Ford question. Jack Nasser was boss at the time. And he didn't answer because Ford told him not to say anything because Firestone's name had to be protected. Remember that Hatoyama's mother's company was the tire maker that caused the trouble.
Posted in: Toyota pledges to take safety 'to the next level'