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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- 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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- Business Teaching Positions - Part-time - Kanto Region
- Interac, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥3,000 ~ ¥5,000 / Hour
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PenelopePitstop
I'd love to know how my taking my kids to HK for 2 weeks impacted anyone. Their school was closed and I work from home. Stop it with the generalizations already! Half the people who left are back already...
Posted in: Why did those foreigners who decided to leave Japan in the aftermath of the March 11 disaster come in for so much derision from some people who labeled them with words like 'flyjin?'
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PenelopePitstop
No, I'm just annoyed at the stayjins judging (harshly) the flyjins for a personal choice that isn't anyone else's business. Something terrible happened in this country, and instead of pulling together and showing empathy, we are criticizing and throwing stones.
Posted in: Why did those foreigners who decided to leave Japan in the aftermath of the March 11 disaster come in for so much derision from some people who labeled them with words like 'flyjin?'
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PenelopePitstop
Personally my choice to leave for 2 weeks wasn't motivated by newspapers: as a journo, I know to take what I read with a pinch of salt... but as a parent, when I see my kids are freaking out because all their friends have left, including those whose parents work for nuclear companies, my job is to keep them safe but also to make them feel safe. I don't regret my choice of leaving when my embassy recommended its "non-essential" citizens leave Kanto... and I hope I won't have to regret coming back.
Posted in: Why did those foreigners who decided to leave Japan in the aftermath of the March 11 disaster come in for so much derision from some people who labeled them with words like 'flyjin?'
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PenelopePitstop
On March 15th, Tokyo radiation levels were 23 times higher than normal levels. What's irrational about not wanting your kids to breathe that air?
Posted in: Why did those foreigners who decided to leave Japan in the aftermath of the March 11 disaster come in for so much derision from some people who labeled them with words like 'flyjin?'
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PenelopePitstop
People who depend on expats to make a living because their business provides specific expat-orientated services will definitely suffer for the next couple of months... some friends who have been living here for more than 20 years and are finding themselves out of work are thinking of throwing in the towel and going home, it's very sad....
Posted in: Handling the big exodus out of Japan
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PenelopePitstop
There was a weird guy following the gaijin schoolgirls from the neighborhood to the local intl school (including my kid) every morning; the koban said nothing could be done about it until he did something physically to them...
Moderator: Back on topic please.
Posted in: Trial of Lindsay Ann Hawker murder suspect Ichihashi to start July 4
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PenelopePitstop
Nicely put!!!!!
Posted in: France blocks train from Italy with migrants
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PenelopePitstop
Unfortunately, its name doesn't quite carry the gravitas of the situation..
Posted in: Pumped up
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PenelopePitstop
One of the things that annoys me most about Japan is the absence of daylight savings! Of course it's going to save electricity!!! Do it already!!!!
Posted in: Do you think switching to daylight saving time in summer in Japan will help ease the power shortage?
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PenelopePitstop
They were checking bags for alcohol at the entrance of the Park.
Posted in: Park place
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PenelopePitstop
It looks like an invasion of the radioactive vajayjays... very scary!
Posted in: Anti-nuke
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PenelopePitstop
There have been quite a few food-labeling scandals in this country!
Posted in: Growers bring their produce direct to Tokyo consumers
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PenelopePitstop
I'm always amazed at how trusting Japanese people are- who wants to feed their children with vegetables from Fukishima?! Even if it said to be safe, why take the risk? It's important to support those farmers, but not by eating their potentially poisoned goods...
Posted in: Growers bring their produce direct to Tokyo consumers
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PenelopePitstop
Too bad Danone Japan are out of milk and you can't get any of their products anywhere!
Posted in: Bio drinkable yogurt
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PenelopePitstop
Too bad you have to die to be eligible for a Darwin award, these guys deserve some sort of a prize...
Posted in: 2 men arrested for growing hemp in Tokyo park
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PenelopePitstop
@Harry and Sarah, I don't know if they tried to notify their landlords... I know some were expecting their helpers to take care of the animals but apparently many of their helpers ended up leaving for the Philippines...
Posted in: Don't forget your pets when disaster strikes
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PenelopePitstop
Some expats I know left the country but left their cats, birds, goldfish in their apartments with some extra food, thinking they would be back in a couple of days...it's already been 10 days since most of them left... horrible, horrible....
Posted in: Don't forget your pets when disaster strikes
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PenelopePitstop
My kids' primary school has those (because their heads are too small for hardhats): each child has one in a little bag that hangs at the back of their chair, it's fire-proof and they put it on in case of an earthquake. They had to put them on last friday...
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PenelopePitstop
A lot of cabbies are old guys who lost their jobs and find driving a taxi is the only work they can get. As a policeman told us when a friend got hit by a taxi while riding a bike: "you should watch out for taxis, most of the drivers are very old and don't see well"!!!
A must-read about what can happen if you get into it with a J-cabbie: google "prison in japan, taxi stippy".... incredible story!
Posted in: Why are Tokyo cabbies so clueless?
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PenelopePitstop
Smart microsystem technology is the way of the future! Pretty soon we'll all be implanted with wireless nano-sensors that will transmit our health data to our doctor and send us emails when something's wrong! Biohealth is revolutionary but quite scary too... Big brother is watching you!
Posted in: NTT developing wristwatch-like device to monitor seniors