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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Shaniqua
timorborder, i see you what you mean and i
m sure its true of some people on tv. however, i have a few friends in tv here in japan, and honestly, for a feature like that they dont pay the foreign tarento wellbecause theyre seen as disposable. even things like radio shows and all those other things are just a drop in the bucket compared to the comparable workload of their japanese counterparts.if people don
t like his feature, they dont have to watch it. for all we know, this could simply be a stepping stone to make connections and on to something else. in the entertainment and media industries, it`s almost a given that most people have to do a few things that are less what they want, to do exactly what they want later.incidentally, flavor of the month? try flavor of the last few years.. i would venture to say that maybe the joke
s on all of you for taking what he does so literally. it could very well be that theres more than whats on the surface. i say watch this guy end up writing a very insightful book about japanese/non-japanese culture relations and the views of stereotypes in the foreign community in japan. some of the comments would be prime examples of the myopia that tends to take hold if youve lived here for a while.Posted in: King of the queens
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Shaniqua
i wonder if anyone ever stopped to think that the character that he shows on tv is something imposed on him, rather than completely what he wants to do. anyone who's ever worked on tv knows that 90% of the time you're at the mercy of your producers and directors, and most tv personalities have to put up with a lot of unpleasant stuff to be able to move up the ranks. personally, i think he's broken a lot of barriers, being an openly gay man in tokyo regardless of nationality. tv is all about gimmicks anyway, so the tv persona is probably not what he's all about. it appears that he's got lots of other things going on too, and that he's well established here in japan. that in itself is something to be proud of. i'd like to see most of you haters get up in front of a camera, or a microphone and tap dance for people who don't always know what they're doing and still have an intelligent sense of humour about it. anyhow, how many of you can say that they know much about enka, or can even speak japanese for that matter? didn't think so. why is it so hard for people to just enjoy other's success instead of resenting them for it? i say bravo!
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