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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Cos
I had the Nike gadget during one month...don't buy, it's crap quality it falls apart after 1 month. But still, that was fun as my friends and family overseas were checking my joggings on line. I'm waiting till they make one that works decently under 2000 yen.
Take away a zero, You're competing with the "99 Shop" podometer.
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No. 1/50 any gender is selected. We don't know how many women try to enter that sports. Obviously very few. Not interested.
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Families that get kids (or adults) going to school tend to catch all the viruses around. If you live on a desert island and you meet nobody, you are "protected" from that, but you'll get things from mosquitoes.
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Precisely. It seems that in the inaka where most of those guys get elected, you don't need many votes to win. For 400 millions, you can probably buy a few elections.
Posted in: Ozawa: Nothing unusual about keeping Y400 mil in cash at home
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Playing in your own biopic. Isn't that's cool ? I didn't know for her clinic.
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And they prosecute for so little... That's what ? Maybe 1/3 of Japanese would earn that in only 100 years. When they said he had to go to court, I imagined something really serious, like he had gone out in the street for a tsunami alert without carrying his gaijin card.
Then surely, you can't trust them. Don't let them the cash.
Darling, you're like a bank, you forget everything. I can help you. Let's do that, I will keep your pocket money in my home.
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Nope. That's not in the curriculum. They teach eigo. Like they teach kokugo, sugaku, any subject. The parents know that. They don't protest at all, but they count their kids every night to check none was abducted... No, no, put a Japanese person with a soroban in the class to count. Kidding. You are obsessed by "race". You don't realize how everybody or his father is "Korean" here. Just like Kobe is "Chinese". And as that's history for nearly all Chinese and most Koreans as too Japanese nationality. If they hadn't, they applied for change when they started studies to be a teacher. There is no background check, and ethnic Koreans teach the same subjects, same way as ethnic Nihonjins, no discrimination in the system. Is it the sense of your question ? You have never met them in your so wide experience ?
JET are not teachers but assistants. I wonder how many JET are left, but they seem to be so much fewer than in the 90's. At some point, when Nova was still on feet, they boasted that in Osaka, they had more teachers in public schools than JET. Plausible. Having seen the draft of the deal, when they started, a dispatched teacher costed 1/3 of the cost of a JET (that was then getting housing, etc). That could be less these days, as non-Westerners take eikaiwa part jobs at the flat rate (750 yen per hour), and even others settle for less than before.
Unlikely. Unless the trend changes dramatically, they are getting rid of what is left of JET and of the blue-eyed eikaiwa. I don't mean only Hashimoto (he is the last to jump in the bandwagon) and only Osaka. All Japan. I can't find stats, but my impression if there were 2000 "Westerners" employed in teaching (all included) in Osaka-city in year 1998, in 2008, there were less than 500. This year, even less. Why ? Can we say the whole JET program since its start, plus the whole eikaiwa, plus the incentives for companies to hire eikaiwa and do OJT English, has been a success and value for their money ? That the national fluency in English has improved so much in the last 20 years ?
Shocked in which way ? After a minute of empathy for you, they are even more shocked that the unqualified JET are more paid than many Japanese parents with 15 yrs of experience in their jobs (not FT + bonuses either)... I am not sure they complain the young foreigners that they are just like Working Holiday youth...with better deals on their tax money. Now, schools, even public ones, tend to hire on a hourly basis, no contract, cheaper native speakers. Example, a woman I know is from Sri-Lanka, native English second language speakers, spouse visa, housewife with her J-kids... they give her flat rate, just the hours they need ( 5 to 10 a week). No official hiring, they give envelopes of cash from some free activity budget. Isn't that perfect for them ? I know many like that. Is it rare in the rest of Japan ? They can find thousands. There are many "English native speakers", fluent in Japanese, already used to deal with Japanese kids and with the dragons (PTA), and cheap : Filipinos, Indian, Pakistani, Chinese (they are like Brits, well Hong-Kong), South-Koreans, well native or not, cheap...
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@Tmarie, I don't make the rules. I tell you what the law is. Go to Jetro site, it's the official texts in English.
My English is poor. I thought that was called "professions". What's the word ?
The question was about starting up a business. That's different from working as a civil servant. And you forgot the police, army, Tenno, yokozuna, Miss Japan...etc.
In France, they still require the nationality to be a fully employed public school teacher, or in any public job. That'd be easier to count the countries where they don't.
That's exactly that, my Argentinian surgeon friend, refugee in France. At 40, he'd have needed to do again 7 yrs of uni. At least, he was bilingual, so he worked as a part-time assistant nurse, and in 10 years of night school, he obtained his license to be a nurse. Like millions of others. You can be a doctor in Japan. The UK opened access to certain specialties as they are in penury. But anyway, you have decided everything was evil in Japan. You totally miss the point which is not the limited access to the public jobs and profession that you find everywhere. The fact is most work visas in Japan block the migrants in one type of job and makes the access to more freedom with PR, and nationality very difficult. Only some countries do that.
You're not having the... Tokyo syndrome ?
Posted in: Why are Japanese averse to immigration?
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NO. Check the Jetro site. It's all in English. You need one director being a resident in Japan (not even permanent resident, foreigner living year 6 months a year is enough).
No. On activities. You need to be a Japanese national only for professions (to get the profession license), like in any country. For some fuzoku activities, you need a police license, but I'm pretty sure PR residents can get it (I have not rechecked, I am not in that industry). The requirement to get a certain number of Japanese or PR foreigner full-time employees is not related to business operation. That's what Immigration asks to an organization that wants to sponsor work visas for foreigners. Of course, eikaiwa are likely to need that.
Posted in: Why are Japanese averse to immigration?
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No. They lost very little when the articles revealed the scam and investigation started. They dropped 20% a day excatly the 3 times Woodford make his media buzz. Stock exchange is not over justice and morality. They go down when investors worry. By his declarations, Woodford gave the impression Olympus had huge losses. Another time, his insisting in getting a quick reaction pushed Olympus into the immediate risk of being de-listed. Later he gave the impression he was the Troyan of some aggressive take over of Olympus. In the 3 cases, stocks went down due to this worry. That Kikugawa gets arrested for his deeds, and the company gets fined for book-keeping irregularities does not move the financial world at all.
That's bad to pay a middle-man. That's not a huge loss of money at the Olympus Group scale (US$2.5 billion).
Posted in: Woodford to sue Olympus, citing lack of investor support to get his job back
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His attempts started after the scandal was revealed, and in his last 3 months of his 30 year stint (with no attempt).
Posted in: Woodford to sue Olympus, citing lack of investor support to get his job back
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One thing I have seen only here. The Japanese authorities and politicians are the most anti-migration of all. And they are in position to block it no matter what others think. Look at it, they have always been those blocking the opening. They say, of course, that they want to avoid the terro threat in Japan (North-Korean spies, Alqaida included). But they also claim they fear ethnic clashes like those that occurred in the early 20th century when Japanese vigilantes did some pogroms on Korean migrants. In a place like Osaka, with 10% of population being "foreigners",even more when they also count "burakumin" in the "sensitive population". They are totally obsessed by that idea. And it's only them. We had hundreds of community meetings and nobody thinks such riots are likely in 21st century. Still, they warn us all the time : "If whatever international problem with a country like the US happens, be careful as you look American, so your neighbors may slaughter you...". After 9/11, during one full month, I have walked back the 800 meters from my station to my doorstep with 2 cops on my side, which was worrying everybody around (either they thought a public enemy was hidden in that gaijin girl body, or they felt I need protection as I was targetted by a herd of godzilla flying around... ). In the Kobe expat ghetto, they had as many cops watching as if that was the White House hosting a Summit with 100 heads of States. Here, there were a few incidents in the years of the North-Korean hostages being shown every day on TV news. A dozen of Korean kids have been harassed by a bunch of weird guys, that didn't look like a popular riot at all. But the police reacted like crazy. They have guarded the Chosen-gakkos as if they had been Embassies, they told them to stop wearing any uniform making them "visible" as a minority or to chat in Korean in streets. Well, everybody could see well all the anti-terro display, finger printing, etc. Whenever the topic of immigration is discussed in shimin-kai, most people see "difficulties" but are open to getting some types of migration... but the debate is always stopped by a dude from City/Prefecture/Ministery of Justice saying there are not enough means to warranty the safety of more "foreigners" and prevent terrorism. It's the full time job of these guys. They want to keep it.
That's the contrary. That's the Japanese point of view. European countries, the US, Australia... considered migrants should not only feel at home and become citizens but also convert to local culture. That worked in most cases from the second generation. Really, in France, up to 1980, we could say that 98% of the second generation migrants were fully assimilated into mainstream. The 2% being "particularly conservative" groups like Haredim and nomadic Rom that don't want to mingle, sometimes not even let kids go to school to be influenced by outsiders. But that assimilation failed for a part of latest generations of migrants, as there are "ethnic" communities trying to change the local lifestyle (they ask their religious laws to prevail, they ask public education in another language and changes of curriculum, they ask shops to stop selling stuff taboo in their religion/culture, etc). The Japanese often see only that tip of the iceberg, the most problematic "non assimilated" groups in Western countries. But they are small minorities.
Not so much. That's already the case that most Japanese (80%) are not in employment for life and millions already work for 600~700 yen per hour.
The educated ones will want a hubby that makes that money roughly, because that's what a family with 2 to 3 kids needs to live as well like average people, even in South-Korean and Chinese cities (and that's not being rich, in city, a kid costs 1 million + 1 million has to be saved for higher education each year). Those that settle for less will soon find their family is struggling and they will work as much as they can. I don't see any of them being housewives in Osaka, they simply can't afford it now. They are all totally working migrants, the same way as if they wouldn't be married and had arrived only to work. If their hubby is not a seishain, or very rich, they never obtain PR due to lack of serious sponsor. So they try to keep a job that could be required to secure a visa if ever they were no longer a spouse. Or they look for a richer hubby that can provide support for a family and sponsor their PR, they dump the first hubby that was only their entry ticket. I have Chinese friends that picked up J-hubbies through some specialized omiai service and... ahem, that really requires a lot of courage to be with such characters, and in-law families, even only a few years. That's not really prostitution, but surely, that shouldn't exist in a fair world. These women had no other legal options. Especially those that are not uni graduates.
The country considers us foreigners not as migrants, but as o-tetsudai. We are tolerated as long as we serve someone/some organization that is Japanese. No evolution in the last 60 years. I don't see it changing any time soon.
They won't get them. In 2050, the work will be done by compatriots from other "provinces"... of GC (Great China) and the Japanese will enjoy rights as a minority, just like the Tibetans. If China's regime evolves well, that could be the best hypothesis. If not, maybe the Tenno and the Dalai Lama will share an exile resort town with their courts.
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He did not uncover anything and wouldn't have. What the OP said about Kodak is the reason. The photo camera industry is in hot waters. And Olympus photo has lost money for a while, they fail out of the race, and as they are not doing phones nor computers, that's hopeless. So the Chinese are waiting to buy the "Olympus Camera " brand and sales network, to use to sell their own cheaply made products. They already supply parts to Olympus, and they could do everything... so the Japanese camera production and RD would be thrashed. That was Woodford 's mission to slash those Japanese job, and centralize the anger on himself , evil foreigner... then he could have gone back to gaikoku and be forgotten (unless a Japanese CEO).
Posted in: Woodford to sue Olympus, citing lack of investor support to get his job back
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No, no. Reread previous articles. He has not revealed anything. Another person, unrelated to him, did the whistle blowing . He has not been fired either, he has resigned. And no need to "wonder" as during the 10+ years that was not CEO but already the highest manager of half of the group, he has shut it up. He is not the one prosecuting the guys that lined their pockets. Zero added value.
Exactly. What he did is amplifying the scandal in media. So instead of losing 2 or 3 %, the stocks have lost 60% in 4 months.
It was not even hidden. You can check the published accounts of corporations but that requires a minimum knowledge of book-keeping (not much) and spending some time on it. Share holders didn't try to know. Like Tepco shareholders that woke up on 3/11 and said "Why didn't they tell us ?". So their losses this time : jugyo ryo. That will teach them for next time.
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I'm sure that will work.... I mean selling the machines seems a great business for Toshiba. It's good news that such machines exist and they can be useful for small surfaces, in what they call hot spots. Around Fukushima, with the amounts they would need to decontaminate, that's surely not the miracle solution. What would that cost ? Is it worth it ?
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Glad she did not kill her. But she lets a baby like she'd bring a brand bag at the pawn shop, in order to get it back later if she gets more cash ? She opposes to adoption in the message. I hope it's legally possible to strip her of parental rights for abandon and give a chance of quick adoption to that baby. There exist ways to let your child in temporary care, but that requires a minimum of formalities : entering the social worker's office, filling one or two forms, showing an ID, giving an address to receive news of the kid. Too much work for her ?
Surely a hospital knows she had a kid, that 30 women had a kid about 10 days ago, and it's one in 2000 hospitals of Japan... They don't know which one abandoned her baby. The acquaintances that saw her pregnant, she can tell them she had a miscarriage or lost the baby at birth, or that she moves to another town and the baby is at her mother's house, nobody will investigate about it.
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Great movies. Noomi Rapace is doing an exceptional job. When Hollywood feels the need to parody you, that's like receiving an Oscar...
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Panda-therapy.
To keep big dogs caged ? They can't bring them another brand of circus pet with a lower maintenance ? In our local park, they were bringing the mama-sheeps for the show on Christmas.That kids couldn't care less... but they got the idea to let them there. Every week after, the kids would all bring a bit of bread to the sheep because they knew they were full. And as Spring was arriving, they'd go everyday... till the lambs were born. Then be patient as the newborn lambs couldn't be shown on the first days (well not to so many kids, but they'd let me in, as I could tell them which were males and females). Then they had limited visits. That would take a few more weeks were needed before the lambs were allowed buy their Mums to get out of the shack and come to play with the kids. I really like the way the park staff was organising the thing. The cost was nothing more -the cattle being there or inside a farm.
Sure. Why not in North-Korea this year ?
I have not diverted $ 500 000 of tax money for a gag and a Christmas present to Chinese officials.
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1200 calories at most. That's not 70% of the daily needs for a man.
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Don't worry. We have already lived on contaminated for decades. Do you know it's forbidden to grow veggies in the ground in Osaka ? They fear they would be deadly poisonous. People that want to do garden have to scrap the earth and change it on all their plot.
To prevent the airport from sinking into the sea... it has to stay above sea level as long as the next generation of submarine aircrafts is not developed.
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