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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cleo
But he hasn't put any new tax-payers in the population.
And he would benefit from living in a well-educated society. A good proportion of those other folks' kids will grow up to be doctors, care workers, professionals and skilled workers in all spheres on whom he will rely at some point in his life. As do we all.
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cleo
I read stuff like this a lot on JT, yet in real life I have never once come across it. Most people seem envious that he has a real-live blued-eyed blonde for his wife, and good-looking haaf kids.
Easily fixed; learn the language.
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cleo
horrified and zichi - Exactly. Means-testing health care is never going to be fair.
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cleo
So some old codger or biddy who never raised a family, spent all his/her money on profligate living and now needs help going to the toilet should be able to get help for free, while those who raised a family have to have a family member out of work to be a full-time carer, and those who were careful and saved for a rainy day (or who had a spouse considerate enough to be well-insured) must pay through the nose if they need help?
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cleo
You can opt not to inherit when the liabilities are greater than the assets.
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cleo
"> I do try to limit contact with others members of the family. Now, that may sound harsh
Harsh isn't the word I'd choose.
the other kids in the family don't speak English so it's hard for me to know what they are saying to my kids
So learn Japanese. You owe it to your kids.
Why would you imagine that other kids would be saying things to your kids that they need to be protected from?
plus there's the risk of exposure to things like Japanese comics that I don't think is appropriate for my children
Funny, both my kids are fluent in both Japanese and English and 'the risk of exposure to things like Japanese comics' has never been a problem. Maybe if you read a bit of Japanese you'd be able to decide what was good and what was not and guide their reading in a positive way, instead of indulging in blind paranoia and shutting them off from society.
we mostly only see them at Christmas and new year now.
So you're depriving your kids of half their family, depriving them of half their heritage, depriving them of natural intercourse with their mother... all because you can't be bothered to learn the language of the woman you married? And you don't trust her to raise her kids as she sees fit?"
Posted in: How foreigners’ daily lives change when they live in Japan
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cleo
You could try smiling at them....
Yes.
Posted in: How foreigners’ daily lives change when they live in Japan
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cleo
The way it was explained to me is that storage space in the classroom is extremely limited, and the shelves along the classroom wall are just the right size to accommodate one regulation-size randoseru, one regulation-size shoe bag, etc., per kid. If kids started bringing in different sizes and shapes of bag they won't fit on the shelves if they're too big, and the stuff the kids are expected to take home won't fit in the bags if they're too small.
Nessie, has your anecdotal high-end knapsack been kicked from one end of the playground to the other every day bar Sunday by a 10-year-old?
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cleo
They're called randoseru and yes they are expensive. But they do last the whole 6 years, which works out at ¥5,000 a year. You'd pay that for cheaper more stylish bags that wore out before one term was ended.
What 'ridiculous shorts they make boys wear'? My son was never made to wear any ridiculous shorts. In winter he wore jeans to elementary school, proper long trousers to junior and senior high.
Send your little lady to a school (public or private) with good academic standards and the length of the skirt is no problem. My daughter and her mates all had their skirts touching the floor when they were kneeling down, checked regularly at school. Yes, some of them would hoike them up once they got out of the school gate, but there was no sensei trying to force girls into short skirts. You do realise it's the PTA together with the school board and the local BoE that decide the uniforms, not the teachers?
lol Christian values include punching teachers in the nose? Monster parent alert.....
Duh. The koseki is a register of Japanese nationals. If you want to rant about not being allowed dual nationality I'll join you and maybe drown you out, but the koseki? Who cares?
(Mod, why does the preview button throw up a 'null'?
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cleo
Presumably Mrs AmericanForeigner grew up exposed to Japanese culture. Are you saying it made her into a flawed person? Then why marry her? What's so horrible about your missus that you don't want the kids to pick up? If she came through OK, why do you imagine your kids would fare less well? Do you also refuse to allow the kids to speak to and interact with the Japanese side of the family?
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cleo
Sounds like all the more reason to have the house bilingual, with a bit of input you might learn something, broaden your horizons.....
So your wife has to speak to her own kids in a foreign language???? What possible reasoning can there be behind that?
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cleo
Kitties that spend their lives indoors, do not hunt wild prey and do not eat raw meat are highly unlikely to carry or spread the parasite that causes toxoplasmosis. Those that do shed the organism for no more than a few days in their entre life.
Moderation and KFC Double Down do not belong in the same sentence unless there's a negative in there somewhere.
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cleo
After 3/11 having a couple of weeks' worth of supplies was a huge help when cracked roads and petrol shortages meant that little was getting onto the supermarket shelves. There's stuff that needs to be handy and ready to go, and stuff that will get you through the first few chaotic days and will sit happily in a box in a closet until it's needed.
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cleo
BS Premium is an NHK channel.
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cleo
Good Lord, no. If there's a sufficient supply of milk, baby should drink his fill then sleep for 2 to 3 hours.
Yes it is.
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cleo
No, no 'stance'. Any drug is potentially dangerous, and I think the old gits who have years of medical training under their belts have a pretty good idea of what's medically advisable/desirable/feasible/possible. Even my vet refuses to use anaesthetics/pain killers unless they're absolutely necessary. Remember, doctors here earn more the more drugs they can palm off onto the patient, so you'd imagine they'd be all for giving every woman an epidural whether she asked for it or not, thus hoiking up the bill. Maybe there's a reason they don't? Are you seriously suggesting that gynaecologists are holding down their own incomes because they hate women? (And vets are doing the same because they hate animals?) As for epidurals being free - Japanese doctors don't do free, and I for one would object to my kenko hoken premiums being used to give unnecessary drugs to squeamish ladies free of charge.
No, I think you simply haven't looked at all the options.
Posted in: Entitlements are not rights
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cleo
tmarie, I have no intention at all of debating the matter with you, or of taking any kind of 'stance' (?) - you're absolutely right, it's your body and you can do with it what you like. Just thought you'd like to know it isn't an either/or choice between potentially dangerous painkilling drugs on the one hand and unbearable pain on the other. It goes without saying that what you decide is up to you, but I see no harm in looking at all the possibilities before making up your mind.
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cleo
Not a good idea after an earthquake, when everyone and his dog is clogging the supermarket aisles and the roads to and from the supermarket. Better to make a point of having a stock of supplies in ordinarily, enough to keep you going a week or so. Add a couple of extra tins/dried food/retort meals etc to the weekly shopping each week, and it's easy to build up a substantial emergency supply. Keep it next to your emergency supply of water, medical supplies, loo rolls, tissues (dry & wet), torches, batteries and anything else your family needs - baby food, dried milk, disposable nappies etc., if you have little ones, pet food if you have critters. Also clean undies and sanitary items.
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cleo
Maybe those 'old gits' know a bit more about the risks and side-effects of epidurals during childbirth than you do and know that there is good reason not to pump unnecessary drugs into perfectly healthy women carrying perfectly healthy babies. If you're afraid of the 'pain' of labour, I suggest you investigate other, less invasive methods that offer less short- and long-term risk to you and your baby. (I used Lamaze, and can recommend it - effective, and far more empowering than relying on drugs). If there are complications in your pregnancy then of course intervention may be necessary, but you are doing yourself and your baby a disservice if you assume that the routine use of drugs and other invasive procedures is a desirable given. On the subject of rights and entitlements, surely your baby has the right to come into the world not pumped full of drugs.
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cleo
According to the 2000 national census, Tokyo accounts for 9.5% of the total population and Osaka for 6.9%. Add in Kanagawa (6.7%) and you get 23.1% - a heft chunk, certainly, but still less than a quarter of the total. Over three-quarters of the population do not live in Tokyo or Osaka.
Even if we assume that the total populations of Saitama (5.5%), Chiba (4.7%) and Aichi (5.5%) all work in the big city thus boosting the daytime population, it's still less than 40%.
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