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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warispeace
I think I read what he said in Orwell's 1984: War is peace! Couldn't Obama be more original and less of a Big Brother?
Posted in: What did you think of U.S. President Barack Obama's remarks at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony?
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warispeace
By trying to convince the US administration and Pentagon to leave.
Posted in: How can Japan best help in Afghanistan?
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warispeace
In no country do they just remove all the bureaucrats. We are talking about a system where the new party in power brings in its own people if need be to replace the top bureaucrats from the previous administration, so a new agenda can be implemented without internal opposition. The issue in Japan is, first, whether the politicians have the knowledge to oversee the government. Here they hand power to people like Aso or Mori, who are clearly lacking leadership and administrative skills, among other things. If politicians are to be law-makers, they need an understanding of the law. The number of lawyers elected is small compared to many countries. Second, it seems difficult to implement a system to just fire a bunch of top bureaucrats. That is why Hatoyama is suggesting that politicians will be sent to the Ministries to act as senior vice-ministers, which seems like a duplication of duties. They should be able just replace the previous vice-minister, who oversees the bureaucrats under her or him. If this were the case, then the question is who has the knowledge and ability, besides a now retired bureaucrat to go into a Ministry and run it. So rather than "remove power," whatever that means, he should and probably will be looking to redirect the authority and efforts of that branch of governance towards implementing DPJ policy, whatever that is. I would think that if there is resistance, just removing the senior guy at the Finance and Foreign Ministry would have the necessary ripple effect.
Posted in: DPJ leader Yukio Hatoyama wants to remove power from the hands of bureaucrats. Can he do it? And is it a good idea?
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warispeace
I guess you'd have to fire all the bullies. . This is a question about the teachers, isn't it?
Posted in: What is the best way to combat bullying in schools?
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warispeace
It is dead food because even mold and bacteria refuses some of it. Check out this video of mac fries and some burgers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htnvzLU1I1o
Posted in: Fast food places like McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, KFC, etc, are frequently criticized. What do you think of them?
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warispeace
It's dead food. Why would you want to put it in you body? Try a nice bowl of soba noodles.
Posted in: Fast food places like McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, KFC, etc, are frequently criticized. What do you think of them?
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warispeace
Last tango in Paris, Emmanuelle, Betty Blue, Caligula, Basic Instinct. Great Action!!
Posted in: What are your five favorite action movies?
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warispeace
Before coming up with such a question as this for discussion, the staff of JT should provide some reasoning for their bias in assuming something is "wrong" with English teaching methodology. Also, the question should be more specific, such as "at the high school level".
How about these:
Please express your views on how effectively English is taught at public high schools in Japan.
Or
What limits more effective language acquisition by public high school students in Japan?
Posted in: What's wrong with the way English is taught in Japan?
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warispeace
Unapologetic fingerprinting of people who have lived and contributed to this society for years, as if we were criminals.
Posted in: What behavior by passengers or staff at airports annoys you the most?
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warispeace
Here's an idea. If we ever get the Aso bonus, we could be given the choice of using our ¥12,000 to a) help pay NHK fees, b) donate to the Tokyo Olympic Ishihara retirement fund, c) put it towards an increased consumption tax payment, d) other suggestions welcomed.
Posted in: Tokyo gets funding boost in 2016 Olympic bid
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warispeace
For sure, you can't put on weight with wafer-thin questions like this one.
Posted in: Can you still put on weight if you drink diet soda or eat foods that claim to be low in calories?
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warispeace
As for her final performance, all I can say is, "break a leg". Sorry!
Posted in: Aya Matsuura breaks toe at home
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warispeace
It's good for the sake and pachinko industries and a nice gift to the banks, where everyone else will stash it.
Posted in: What do you think of the government's plan to give a Y12,000 cash handout to members of the public in an effort to stimulate the economy?
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warispeace
Stolen panties, of course.
Posted in: What issues do you think will dominate the news in Japan and abroad this year?
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warispeace
The cream rises to the top, but it always seems unpalatable in this nation. Still the people get what they deserve. If they don't want to demand a change in the way their representatives are elected and don't want to require the accountability of elected and unelected officials, then they will get the likes of Koizumi, Aso, Mori, Ishikawa...
Joining the social contract is necessary, but the continual attack on our individual sovereignty and control over choices and actions that affect our daily lives should be a call for greater political activism.
Posted in: Too much verbal jousting and 'nantonaku' from Aso, say critics
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warispeace
The Japanese banks do not need strengthening. They are out picking up cheap stakes in US investment banks, so why should the tax payer subsidize this? They are going to offer new shares to re-capitalize and this dilutes the price of existing shares. Does this mean they are weak and need help?
Posted in: Nikkei index falls 6% to 26-year low
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warispeace
This is just another crisis in capital, only a more impacting one. For the past several decades, the tendency towards over-accumulation has been "avoided" by the global spread of capital and by faster turn-over time. These mechanisms which have helped to avoid a long recession or depression (when capital and labour both sit idle) may no longer be as effective in the future. Fukuyama's "end of history" may be over.
Posted in: Is a global lost decade on the cards?
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warispeace
I'm with akami, hh-ing is a great experience in Japan, but then I've also hh-ed in Europe and down the west coast of the US, so it seemed tame in comparison.
I remember one guy who picked my mate and I up in the early morning in Hokodate, after we had drank ourselves silly on the ferry from Otaru. He dove us in to Sapporo while we slept and in the end pulled a US$20 out of his wallet for us, thinking we were hard up, which we were at the time. Great guy!
Don't miss your chance to see another side of Japan while you are here.
Posted in: Want to see the real Japan? Try hitchhiking
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warispeace
It took a decade for Japan's economy to recover. Listen up!
Posted in: Japan to propose bailout fund at G-7 summit on financial crisis
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warispeace
Obviously, no consequences
Posted in: Why are so many people rude in cyberspace?