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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"the luxury lodge... and casual visitors have been turned away..." What the hell are they trying to say? Why don't they ever call an English country hotel a "luxury hotel"? What is a casual visitor? These NGO freaks in England need to look in their mirrors. They're the evil ones in Africa.
Posted in: UK charity urges Madonna to rethink Malawi adoption
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Okinawamike: "Or better yet, instead of using a firehose, use a 50cal with a big scope." My oh my... I warned about pirate threats in 1993. I advised Mazda to start taking out pirate insurance - and they did. But it took two close calls off the coast of Cyprus before they decided to call an insurer. In 2000 I approached the Japanese maritime community and asked them to start serious technology development - radio controlled devices etc. for slowing down pirates and basically putting them out of the hunt - the Straites of Malaca were starting to heat up. I had no takers, not until two weeks ago when a call to make my pitch finally came through. Using the navy to stop pirates is like hunting for left footed bees in the amazon. You get one when you're lucky but don't try building a career out of it. These guys are operating independently. Weapons are every where. And life to them isn't as serious a thing to preserve... The only way to make this fight succeed is to start charging the shipping companies protection money - and line them up in a convoy. Why would any navy spend millions to offer protection to a ship that may very well be carrying contraband for a sworn enemy?
Posted in: Somali pirates hijack 2 tankers in 24 hours
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posh: It's the other way round - JD Power's is the one that takes money from Japanese auto makers.
Posted in: Jaguar, Buick dethrone Lexus in reliability study
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grafton: check your facts on Zimbabwe before you post crap. South Africa is the culprit that destroyed Zimbabwe and bluffed the world... it's not the saint you've led yourselves to believe. SOuth Africa does make up its own mind and not in a pretty way I might add.
Posted in: South Africa bars Dalai Lama from peace conference
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The other five are phantoms.
Posted in: 15 of 20 top AIG execs agree to return bonuses
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Put the fallen pieces next to your Space Lab and Mir collectables. And remember to wash your hands properly afterwards. P.S. I think you get a prize if the piece with Pretty Boy Kim's picture falls in your back yard.
Posted in: What should the international community do if North Korea launches a rocket?
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The catch-22 is that these are people picked up from the street. And judging from what folks are saying here it's obvious many of you are not writing from published fact about where most of these people - Cheney's so-called enemy combatants, were taken from. The streets of Lusaka, Zambia for instances. How the hell does that hold up against your arguements? These folks are being held for one and only one reason. They were not captured but abducted.
Posted in: Ex-Bush admin official: Many at Gitmo are innocent
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Jeez... when will the people wake up and realize that they're duping themselves? Taxes are taken by force! We have zero say in how the money is used. And yet some will try to convince me that I am wrong. People, we go straight to the slammer for avoiding one penny in taxes. What on earth makes us so dumb as to believe that we actually have a right to yap about what the fleecer has done with what he fleeced from us? You didn't put up a fight when the grim reaper came collecting, sure as hell you're half witted if you actually think you have a right to tell him how to squander his loot.
Posted in: Taxpayer fleecing must be stopped
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knews: my gripe is that these kids change their surnames the day they come to Japan. That ain't cultural but financial.
Posted in: Jun Hasegawa capitalizes on 'haafu' look
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they are not dumb to sign these contracts. The contracts are switched and there's no help available.. Gangsters come calling, push you into traffic, cause and accident for you and get the contract canned for bringing shame to the media company.... I'd study the facts before I post naive comments:-
Posted in: Appearance fees for celebs cut amid economic downturn
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What's the story here? Japan has always had a huge consumption of the weed. Heck west Japan produces more of the stuff than Jamaica!
Posted in: Japan goes up in marijuana smoke
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If her dad is not Japanese why is she Hasegawa? This is won thing I really can't appreciate in these kids. My sons have my name. Taking mums name is low - they're doing it for the money.
Posted in: Jun Hasegawa capitalizes on 'haafu' look
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bebert - England controls Jamaica? Wow! Where are you getting this stuff from? The problem here with this ad (despite the fact that the ladies gun-toting movies are ok) is that Britain has a horrible problem with teen killing other teens for the slightest provocation.
Posted in: Ad featuring Angelina Jolie ordered off British TV
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It's a SUZUKI - aka Suzuki Wagon R. When will the auto press start to call these things what they are? Mazda redesigned what? Suzuki does everything. Mazda Sangyo may modify the vehicle but that's after delivery from Suzuki.
Posted in: Mazda releases redesigned AZ-Wagon i
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I said Grouper not Old Groper!
Posted in: Expecting fish, Philly pet store gets a man's body
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Does anybody remember Robert Maxwell? Sound familiar here? And remember what he was doing with the stolen money? There's a country involved in this scam I believe.
Posted in: Madoff sent to jail for Wall Street swindle as furious victims applaud
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Dontpanic: The secret subsidies have all but dried up. Toyota is up the creek and I don't mean Battle Creek Mi. Let's see this page in June.
Posted in: Toyota asking for government loan
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Madverts and Triumvere. Verts first: I'M not a Mugabe supporter. The difference between myself and the rest of you is that I live in a world of all the pieces. I don't speak for what has happened today only or what some government secret service office has fed the press - I saw the plot against Zimbabwe (a country that banished me 23 years ago) unfold. The plotters had no idea I was Zimbabwean by birth - it's impossible for me to buy any of the crap they put out on Mugabe. The man is only defending his country regardless of what you see. I see the problem of them trying to topple Mugabe in 1997 over Congo resources and tax evasion in Zimbabwe. I also see the British offering Mazda $32 million to join its coup - in 1997. How can I just ignore all that stuff? Maybe you could... Triumvere: Go back to the signing of the peace treaty in south Sudan. You probably don't remember the strange and sudden death of the south's leader - Ugandan Helicopter crash (but no conspiracy theories hey?). You'll recall that was the time oil was discovered in the south - strangely enough by US missionaries at the same time that three of them had been arrested at Harare airport when 36 weapons of war were found in their baggage (including carry-on luggage). And wasn't it odd for those men of god to persuade the Christian south to make peace with its muslim enemy in the north? Oh and let's not forget the sudden airlift of all those so-called lost boys - to the US to start new lives once the war ended. Do you recall the aid 'agencies' forcing a mass migration of the non-combatants from the south? Do you recall the very same migrating people being led by the same agencies into eastern Chad? Do you recall Chad threatening all-out war if they were not turned back? And do you recall that when Chad shot a few hundred the rest ignored the agencies and fled back across the border into Sudan - where the locals in that area forced them out towards the north - DARFUR. Do you recall the aid agencies begging their governments for emergency help? If this is too hard for you to remember, just google and see what you stir up. The culprit in Darfur isn't Kartum. It's a mockery of the Hague. If you prove me wrong I'll eat your socks.
Posted in: Sudan's president says arrest warrant is conspiracy
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Roy Bennett was caught with a large cache of arms of his farm - that's not political. The west is quick to respond to Zimbabwean charges with the "The claims are baseless..." The last time I checked, the meaning of baseless is, "You have no proof" rather than, "it never happened". In the Botswana case of training MDC would-be fighters, all the evidence is there but of course the press will never accept it. Mr. Bennetts weapons for instance which were smuggled in through (and the help of) Mozambique were a classic example of selective journalism. And on the matter of sanitation, out here in this Asian country it has been insisted to me and an NPO I was working with(from 1999 through 2006) that no water can ever be pumped from the Zambezi River to any Zimbabwean town at the direct request of Britain - because as the faxes clearly stated, "the pipes would have to cross through white owned farms, something which we cannot allow..." On the call for water purification materials we were politely told in 2006 that South Africa was the one that would decide what could enter Zimbabwe and water purification materials were absolutely not permitted. Mass murder is what it is and South Africa is the major killer in Zimbabwe, like it or not.
Posted in: Zimbabwe Prime Minister Tsvangirai hurt in crash; wife killed
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Madverts: as your moniker implies - I'd be privileged to offer the same to you. I have every reason to believe that your people wanted to kill Tsvangirai for turning against you - why only the day before the wreck he demanded sanctions be lifted. The Brits are now saying no foul play because their truck was the offending vehicle! The same European story in Africa now isn't it? When you're guilty it's an accident. When it's an accident the blacks are guilty. On the man you quote - Tom McDonald: how convenient that he left out the death of Chenjerai Hunzvi - the leader of the war veterans who was behind the rise of the MDC through his persistent call for benefits - "1997 June the US Black Business Leaders visit to Harare is disrupted by the ZCTU (led by Mr. Tsvangarai) storming into the Harare COnference Centre during a discussion between the visitors and Mugabe - rioting and demanding that 23% of all white owned businesses be given to indigenious people, farm land be repossessed forcefully... everything they're heaping on Mugabe today. Do you recall that CNN blasted Mugabe for calling the riot police out? Heavy handed they called it. Do you also recall that the humiliation for Zimbabwe on that day was the factor that led to the bad blood between Mugabe and Tsvangirai? And the very fact that the west strategically sidesteps any reference to what Tsvangirai was doing that winter - Iron Mask Farm occupation instigated by the ZCTU and for which Mugabe got roasted by the international press when he called the Support Unit to evict them. Bad blood boils when Mugabe is called the farmers enemy and MDC their friend. Google "ZCTU strike 1997" Do you recall that the US ambassador to Zimbabwe at the time was Tom McDonald? Apparantly either Mr. McDonald, CNN or yourself have conveniently forgotten what's behind the crisis and hostility between Zimbabweans in general and the leadership of the MDC - business leaders and economists forcing Mugabe to crush the Tsvangirai group while at the same time South Africa is forcing Britain to crush Mugabe.
Tsvangirai's wife was killed in a crash involving one of his allies vehicles - no amount of spinning by your lot will change the equation. It seems like you folks want to get rid of him for trying to work things out with Mugabe. This time Africans will start to ask the questions, not your lot.
Posted in: Zimbabwe Prime Minister Tsvangirai hurt in crash; wife killed