JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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To be healthy, live in the big city
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Teacher nabbed for using miror to peek up girl's skirt
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Japan's nuclear safety standards flawed, says commission chief
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From carnivores to herbivores: how men are defined in Japan
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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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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yokomoc
Murdoch, you're years behind. If you want to make money from online, create some good iPhone news feeder apps. You can sell feeds for specific journalists, topics, or broad news feeds. [If these exist already please corect me :) ]
The Fox News and Sun websites are just horrible to look at and navigate, noone's going to pay for that.
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yokomoc
Tak, on Tokyo trains, Japanese people are barely even willing to communicate with other Japanese
Posted in: 10 ways to get a seat on a packed commuter train in Japan
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yokomoc
Yelnats - great stuff! I think I've seen your Japanese twin on the trains. Noone sat next to him either...lol
Posted in: 10 ways to get a seat on a packed commuter train in Japan
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yokomoc
Cleo, exactly. From what I see every day, the main driver behind whether a seat remains empty is the space available. It just so happens that on average, westerners including myself have wider bodies than Japanese (read wider not fatter, for the easily offended), and so what some people see as xenophobia is more like claustrophobia ;)
It might be different out in the sticks, but I'm only speaking from a greater Tokyo perspective, and here believe it or not, westerners on trains are pretty passe.
Posted in: 10 ways to get a seat on a packed commuter train in Japan
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yokomoc
Oh and the empty seat beside a gaijin point is crap and simply not true in my experience, in rush hour anyway. All seats taken all the time.
Posted in: 10 ways to get a seat on a packed commuter train in Japan
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yokomoc
I do almost all these, except the narcoleptic one - just this morning got a seat from one of these guys. I'd also add in stand in front of middle-aged women as they're less likely to be working in the city centre (or at all), studenty-types since universities are often located out of centre and people who look alert but aren't reading or playing with phone etc.
Posted in: 10 ways to get a seat on a packed commuter train in Japan
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yokomoc
Patrick Smash:
Is this only recently? The last year or two it's pretty much been the case for all ryugakusei grads. I've got a few friends from uni who graduated a year after I did. These are really smart guys, mostly from engineering/science backgrounds who would have been snapped up 2-3 years ago, and now they're all in the same boat - no jobs going outside of English teaching, tutoring and post-grad placements. One guy has the perfect qualifications to be a quant analyst and he's teaching guitar to make ends meet.
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yokomoc
It has this magically ability to get people employed in well-paying jobs, without having any discernable skills to speak of.
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yokomoc
It's coloured water of course, not wine. They have beer, sake, coffee themes and a couple of others I've forgotten. It's a good day out if you don't mind the journey. This is just a small part of the resort - it has a waterpark type area, regular swimming pool, kids area etc.
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yokomoc
What a shameful move on the part of these countries. They know the only reaon this would ever have a chance to pass is due to fear of extremist violence should it be rejected. Basically they're playing on western fears of terrorism for their own ends, all the while distancing themselves (of course) from the perps. Let's kick this into touch before it gets near the courts.
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yokomoc
And related news, Fox News have been caught (again) using old footage (from the election campaign) to try to make it seem like more people attended the book events than actually did
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/18/fox-crowd-shot-palin/
2nd time in about 10 days Fox have made such an, ahem, oversight.
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yokomoc
Did you know it's been her dream for over a month and a half?
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yokomoc
Man it must be November's pervy cop week. If he's gone to her apartment to "get to know more about her" you can bet the guy's been in her handbag at work as well.
And what guy uses mace to defend himself, and a copper too, presumably well-trained (no snickering!)
And Nuckin, agreed on the weak police procedure. Makes you wonder what the senior cops were doing at the time (well we know what one was doing!)
Posted in: Cop arrested for breaking into female cop’s apartment in Chiba
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yokomoc
Well if the horns make a "hee~~~" sound, I can see why this would affect the Japanese players.
Posted in: JFA chief seeks vuvuzela ban at World Cup
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yokomoc
That there are now 160+ posts on this means the talk news noise monkeys have done their job.
They win. Everyone loses. Congratulations.
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yokomoc
skipthesong - you're reading too much into my comments. I'm simply pointing out the guy's hypocrisy on the statement he made. Is everything left-right and Democrat-Republican to you? Open up a bit, life has more dimensions.
Back on topic, has anyone managed to explain exactly how giving people an extra option for their health care equates to less freedom?
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yokomoc
“This bill is the greatest threat to freedom that I have seen,” House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, told the crowd.
Says one of the men who voted for the Patriot Act. I think their strategy here is to throw enough stupidity, fear and noise out there that people just get confused by it all.
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yokomoc
Best Earthist!
Maria, obviously "Maximize the daylight" means to make the most of it, and not to turn your lights on befor eit's really gotten dark. And you know what - if she says it, I'll do it.
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yokomoc
dolphingirl: "Change the way you look at things and the things you're looking at change."
Posted in: Self-centered zombies running rampant through Japanese society
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yokomoc
Could Ahmedinejad be the new Iraqi Information Minister?
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