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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yokomoc
I was wondering if this would make it onto JT. Isn't it amazing when during a time of nuclear crisis with contaminated food, an incompetent government, nuclear 'watchdogs' who lie to protect the industry at the public's expense, a zombie economy with no sign of recovery, a widening income gap and a pending financial crisis that'll be worse than 2008 - these tools think what really needs protested is too many Korean soap operas on TV? What sad, sad people.
Posted in: Anti-Korean Wave in Japan turns political
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yokomoc
@Serrano, when you change money to go abroad who do you think's on the other side? And when the BOJ decide to sell JPY, who's buying on the other side?
Posted in: Strong yen spurs int'l travel, currency trading
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yokomoc
Well that was fun while it lasted. The DJA down 5% overnight, AUD/JPY right back where it was before yesterday's intervention, Nikkei tanking today and Europe still on the verge of sovereign crisis. It's a year later than I expected but GFC part II has just kicked in.
Posted in: Strong yen spurs int'l travel, currency trading
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yokomoc
@Ah_So I read something similar a few years ago. Also that the suicide rate was higher than it should be because doctors would just label possible homicide deaths as suicides because of the reluctance to do autopsies.
Posted in: Japan's autopsy rate woefully low
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yokomoc
Google+ has had the fastest takeup because it's an established brand. The others had to start from scratch so naturally toook time to become popular. In a way it's a disadvantage for Google because they have to have a good thing from the start or risk losing people early while other companies had the freedom to develop and user-test their software over time.
I've not seen anything on there yet to make me keep using. Even the front-end isn't appealing. But we'll see how it develops if it doesn't bomb like Wave and Buzz.
Slightly embarrassingly, Google's own trends show that after initial interest after the launch, there's been a large drop to below pre-launch levels:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=google%2B&ctab=0&geo=all&date=ytd&sort=0
Meanwhile Twitter continues to boom while FB looks to have peaked:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=twitter http://www.google.com/trends?q=facebook
It's easy to be cynical (it's also easy to spell losers correctly). I find the opposite for what it's worth - they're more of a tool to get absorbed in others.
Posted in: Google+ the fastest-growing social network ever
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yokomoc
He's not a journalist.
Posted in: Nissan fumes over BBC TV program 'Top Gear'
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yokomoc
CruzControl, I took my kid to see Cars 2 at Yokohama World Porters at the weekend. Afternoon shows are dubbed but the evening showings are English with subtitles.
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yokomoc
And how did the university get a hold of the tweet in the first place? I guess someone must have grassed him up. Poor show.
Posted in: University student suspended following 'drunk driving' tweet
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yokomoc
I wonder how much of this is due to energy-saving giving people more disposable income
Posted in: Japan retail sales post first rise since quake
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yokomoc
Because the same trains that take you to Shibuya are the same ones that take you back to Motomachi-Chukugai and back again. The trains run like a chain link with some overlapping for the express so a stoppage in any one place affects the whole line. The trains times are also set up precisely so that express trains overlap the locals at the right stations and putting a large gap between the broken-down train and the one in front will just lead to chaos afterwards as they try to realign everything.
Posted in: JR West punished staff with toilet duty, cutting weeds
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yokomoc
Despite the fact that every successful IMF rescue in history has required between a 67:33 and 83:17 split in spending cuts and tax increases, and that the US has the largest primary deficit in the world, yes...it appears there are some.
Posted in: Boehner delays vote on his debt-ceiling measure
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yokomoc
Revisionist thinking. They didn't have the necessary 60 votes to pass the senate, and the Republicans refused to pass the extensions to unemployment benefits unless the tax cuts were extended along with it.
Posted in: Boehner delays vote on his debt-ceiling measure
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yokomoc
Hardly a surge, it's been trending that way for a couple of weeks now
Posted in: Tokyo stocks lower, dollar trading at Y77.90 as U.S. debt default looms
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yokomoc
Will burning the beef destroy the cesium-137? And if not what will they do with the residue and emissions? I hope this is heavily controlled.
Posted in: Japan to buy up and burn radiation-tainted beef
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yokomoc
Is it not fair to say a certain amount of immigration (and emigration) is needed to allow new ideas and skills in to a country and to balance out the work force, but if it happens too quickly it can lead to divisions and an overload of 'foreign bodies' for want of a better phrase? In this case Japan has had far too little and parts of Europe too much. At some point Japan will have to open the floodgates and the longer they wait the worse the shock to the system, while Europe will have to stem the flow for a while until the current population settles into some kind of order.
Posted in: Norway killer's manifesto praises Japan for not adopting multiculturalism
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yokomoc
This case may end up being the first true example of people power victory this century. Viva la revolution!
Posted in: James Murdoch's evidence questioned as hacking scandal widens
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yokomoc
There's no search involved - it's a matter of interpretation. I want to know which countries you believe 'have their house in order' and why. It's not a difficult question. Back up your stupid claims for once.
Posted in: No progress in U.S. debt talks as deadline looms
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yokomoc
Hey you got an answer to this?
Posted in: No progress in U.S. debt talks as deadline looms
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yokomoc
I have trouble agreeing to ay 'extremist ' label on these groups. There's no violence, simply exposition of the truth. These groups have become necessary because of the willingness of various organisations to hide or obscure the truth from the public. I can't on any level oppose what they're doing, the response from the populace to their actions is overwhlemingly positive.
With an open and honest society they would become powerless but in today's world they will only go from strength to strength.
Posted in: 'Anonymous' fires back at hacker hunters
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yokomoc
Taka, research shows that e.g. the food stamp program contributes around $1.75 for every $1 paid out. Poor people spend the money they have available, the wealthy send more of it offshore where it does not contribute to production. Simple truths there.
Posted in: No progress in U.S. debt talks as deadline looms