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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Thenewfront
Many half kids suffer terribly, without school support and their parents working long hours unaware of the severity of the problem.
Those who say brush it off or my kids were fine etc, do not know the mental scars that can occur if the discrimination is prolonged and gets out of hand. Laws must be made to protect all half and non Japanese from racism, as is done in decent civilised nations.
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cleo: A law to make victimising anyone due to their ethnicity is needed now in this multi cultural world. The attacks on children here are taken with a pinch of salt. One half kid was made to say sorry to his teacher after his father caused a stir by coming to school and berating the teacher for not stopping his son being bullied. THe kid eneded up leaving school at 13 and in a mental home.
Beleiev me life in teh sticks, where everyone knos each other in little cliques etc is weird. If you are different or do not act "normal" they feel it is ok to mete out punishment. Sounds ridiculous but true, and i can back it up.
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I feel sorry for her. I wish they could be more like the British royals and give them some independence. Maybe teh British have scandals, but that's reality not enforced living in the Imperial Palace with out dated rules.
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Cheeba: In the stick in Hyogo prefecture.
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Cleo: Depends where you livde. I have experienced minor racism , which i have shrugged off, but half kids around here are being beaten and the police and schools do nothing. Think of others not just your family please.
Without laws to prevent this discrimination it continues and the attackers cannot be convicted nor the schools who should be acting as guardians.
I don't say this happens everywhere in Japan, but as i have ststed many times where i live is very very isolated. It is a shame posters like Cleo expect their experiences to be the norm, in such a large country, with many different types of communities.
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Cleo your post is very heartless . "boo hoo" you say. How about aying it to my half relative who was severly beaten for not being a "real Japanese". It's not alynching but it happened and where i live it happens frequently , especially to and from school. As i have said to you before, because your life is fine do not presume everyone else 's is. Japan is a large country, where i live is very isolated foreigners stick out like a sore thumb, are not the norm and many are intolerant.
Finally any decent country would have anti racism laws. I hope you or your kids donb't get brutality because of how you look. Jaspan is not a paradise for all you know.
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Cheeba: I think you need some therapy and an ego reduction course may also be needed. Thde term is offensive. If i was given half a glass of wine instead of full in a bar i would complain. If someone is caleed half they are being called half a person, half a true blooded really. It's pathetic, how about anti racial discrimination laws Japan?
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I agree with Sarge hahahaha.
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cleo: You know as well as i do, that if someone set up anEnglish club for those who are English and have thingsin common, they would welcome anyone who is interested in their club. You know that full well. Many Japanese wouldn't allow foreigners into a Japanese club and that includes half, and Japanesze law allows thsi to happen.
BTW English do not unlike Japanese condiderthemselve a race. Maybe some here have been living in Japan for too long and have lost touch with changes to their own country , wheer the majority despise prejudice and demonstarte aggresively against it.
I do not see any demonstartions by Japanese proteseting ill treatment of foreigners or half, why? Because tehy either are totally ignorant or apathetic or are racist.
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stbreed: You still don't get it mate. Wish schools still had debating societies like when i attended school.
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lostbreed: Your post is false. If i were to join an English club, it does not mean we discriminate against non English, just that we share the same hobbies and like.
Think about it for a while and you might get it.
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cleo: The police though pressurised refused to press charges. Each family was made to pay compensation of 20,000Yen. I don'T know if this practise is common in Japan, but as for being in the sticks, i am 30 mins from nearest staion by car and 20 for nearest supermarket. My experiences may not be common in Japan, but theer has been a lot of violent bullying of foreign kids here, with the authourities usually putting it down to horse play.
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cleo: This discussion regards Japan, not wherever you go.
If a group of kids batter a haafu kid in Japan and he is hospitialised, is taht the bullies problem. Maybe your life is flowers and rosies, but i and some i know have experienced hell because of discrimination, maybe because we live in a very isolated area, and the school don't stop it, and the police don't care!
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Himajin: Seems like you are referring to me. I have fresided in Japan for over a decade and have been withy my japanese wife for 20 years. Not quite 2 months eh.
I have seen the racilism towards people who are differnet including those born to foreign parents at fist hand.
Care to point the finger again at me and about my knowledege and experiences in Japan Himajin?
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So many here pathetically saying ignore any prejudice. See if it hurts your family and causes a child to enter a psychiatric hospital. Thinks it doesn'T happen, think aagain. It is xswept under the carpet. If you are influenecd by Japanese media and tv, that is no education for REAL life.
JUst because some are not victims , a hugh amount are, but it is not discussed in the media, because as anyone will tell you "we Japanese are not racist", that is why they have no discrimination laws.
If you don't fit the part you are never truely accepted by the majority, just tolerated like foreigners are. Always some will like "haafu" and always some will like foreigners, but most don't.
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Tigertty: Haafu is not in vogue at all. There are token half as there are token foreigners in the media. Look at things objectively and with insight , rather than just seeing what is on tv or in a magazine.
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They still show Takeshis castle on the Virgin channel in England, i like it. Most British think the Japanese are still like that. I know a bi racial kid here , who put up with a lot of bullying and beatings. He lives near me in the sticks, where different looking people are blatantly stared at and often abused.
It is hard for some of these peoepl, while people like Cleo ridicule them, because these things haven't happened to them ot theri family, it doesn't mean these problems should be swept under the carpet.
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genie22: Britain is not dumbed down . We have the greatest culure and sophistication on the planet. Britain can make its own choices without people on forums moaning about them. This woman's decisiosn should be respected. If you don't like what she does, then do not follow her in the media.
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Thenewfront
I am very pleased we have a man of peace in the Whitehouse now.
At last the illegal invasion can end. Warmonger Bush and his pals responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths and are out of government, great!!!
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Lock the old cow up. You don't do things like that to kids whatever the situation.
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