JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- 秘書及び業務サポート
- 加治金属工業株式会社, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥4.0M / Year
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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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- ALT - Mie Prefecture - Yokkaichi City - June start
- NPO法人グローバル教育推進機構（GLAD), Mie
- Salary: ¥230,000 / Month For a full working month. Some months differ.
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I hope Japanese women can keep their good points and not try to emulate these TV characters -- it's just damn TV. I am sure many American viewers find the show not worth watching.
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The way I see it, any one team among the four teams (Cuba, USA, Japan and Korea) can now win either WBC or Olympics. It should also be noted that Japan did not play all that well in the WBC tournament and got beaten by Korea 2 out of 3, until Japan barely and luckily got into the elimination round (after losing two games to Korea -- remember when Ichiro was drinking because he thought Japan was out of the competition?) when USA surprisingly lost to Mexico. Out of their last 5 meetings, Japan lost 4 times of 5 to Korea. Now, does this mean Korea baseball team is the best in the world? Of course not. If all MLB players had participated, the USA would probably field the strongest team, followed by Japan. However, you have to keep in mind that the baseball infrastructure in Korea is very, very poor compared to USA or Japan. There are very few high school baseball teams and baseball fields. The same thing goes for swimming. The average Korean professional baseball player probably gets paid less than $100,000 USD per year, while the Japanese/USA counterparts get paid probably 5 to 10 times more on the average. Given this fact, Korea has to bring their best players to WBC or Olympics competition, just to compete. Anyway, that's what makes the Olympics interesting to watch, because sometimes the sheer collective desire of the team to win can lead to great results. Anyway, one thing is clear -- Korea has improved fast. And in baseball, a good team chemistry is more important than having superior individual players. Even Taiwan and China are coming up very fast. One thing I noticed is that Korean players have gotten better hitting the Japanese pitchers, but I agree that Hoshino made some key mistakes in managerial decisions. I would not have allowed Iwase to pitch that long. Korea always had decent pitchers and defense, but they did not have good hitters. Now, their hitting has improved.
Posted in: South Korea wins gold in baseball