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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fuguyoutoo
Klein2, I'll engage you on this discussion...
"I wanted to give my kids something like that and felt it was unlikely to be done smoothly in the US in the many places I know of there. So I do it here. In Mayberry, Japan."
Honestly now... you had to travel 5,000 miles to find Mayberry ? I believe you passed thousands of Mayberrys in your search. Japan can't even begin to offer a smidgin of the total growth experience provided in the USA. The only thing your kids will learn here is "gaman, gaijin, and taihen" ! The place is a deadend. I want you to think back on your childhood. Your friends, sports, classmates, holidays, family gatherings, outdoor rec events... Japan offers none of this for us. The country is expensive and the people are jaded. I know, I've been here long enough. I've lived in the country and the city... everyplace is the same here, a ghetto ! And that coming from someone who makes more than 1.5 million yen above the national average... it aint about money, its about the people !As for all this...
"I do not see the Japan you see. It sounds as though Cleo and I found similar places."
Where in Tochigi ? Yo, I been there, done the gyoza thing.
"Children bow at crosswalks. The postmen smile."
So what ! Kids in America shake your hand, the waitress is able to make small talk, everyone knows their neighbours... hell here in Japan we hear story after story about how some old codger died and no one knew about it for months !
"The kids know the names of the neighborhood dogs."
Yes, but do the neighbours know your kids names ? Mine don't !
"We have a nice house and a productive garden."
I doubt it ! The average American house is 2,400 square feet... Japan ? 900 square feet !
"No successful cram schools. My daughter was earning her own money at age 10. My son at 8. My kids have bicycles and no security devices."
Congratulations... you are not the norm ! How do you feel ? Sorry Klein2 you are telling me stories about how "foreigners" live in Japan... not how everyone else does. Come back to this site when you can tell me about your morning commute on the yamanote... like most Japanese ! Or how you feel about working 14 hours a day, with no overtime pay... for years on end. That is the life of the regular Japanese. It's no wonder so many of them despise us... with our nice homes, gardens, living next to nobel prize winners. Wow, what a paradise... if only the average nihonjin could experience so much. I for one can't wait to get my family out of here. The cramped apartment we live in is a dump ! The yakuza living around the corner are creepy. The summers are horrible. The food is inadequate and often times limited. And once again Tokyo and Osaka are rated the worlds most expensive cities... this while salaries here are in decline. That is the reality for the Japanese that inhabit this land... consider yourself very fortunate kleine2.
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fuguyoutoo
Sorry Sarge, no amount of stimulation will help as long as oil prices hover around 60 dollars a barrel. Therin lies the problem.
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fuguyoutoo
And nigelboy just can't help but embarrass himself in public. unfortunately your "on average" statement is anything but ! Japan is very careful about what schools participate in PISA tests. The US is not ! Subsequently you get schools from the US packed with immigrant kids who can barely speak the language competeing with some of Tokyo's cram school elite ! Sorry Nigelboy, I'll take the American way of education over Japans any day of the week. Now if you choose to respond to this manhandling, start by first telling us all what you know about the American education system. I doubt you truly understand it. For if you did, you wouldn't be quoting PISA scores... bwahaha !
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fuguyoutoo
"The fact remains that this man chopping wood in the forest led directly to an animal being killed."
Whoa up their hoss, yer stretchin the story mighty thin ! Seems to me that it was the fact the mountain lion was starving is what set of this chain of events ! I suggest you take your complaint up with mother nature ! Maybe she can knock a few deer down with a bolt of lightening or something... sheesh !
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fuguyoutoo
One only has to see how far both Britain and Australia declined after both nations foolishly banned guns. Britain in particular saw catastrophic rises in crime that remain today. The facts;
-The U.S. Department of Justice says a person is nearly twice as likely to be robbed, assaulted or have a vehicle stolen in Britain as in the United States.
-robberies rose 81 percent in England and Wales, they fell 28 percent in the United States.
-Likewise, assaults increased 53 percent in England and Wales but declined 27 percent in the United States.
-Burglaries doubled in England but fell by half in the United States.
-motor vehicle theft rose 51 percent in England, it remained the same in America.
-day burglary is commonplace and dangerous because criminals know they will not be shot at if caught flagrante delicto. Not so in the U.S., where burglars not only prefer night burglaries but try to make sure homeowners are not in to avoid being shot at by the intended victim.
-The rising tide of thievery and burglaries in England has dubbed Britain "a nation of thieves," wrote the London Sunday Times, which noted: "More than one in three British men has a criminal record by the age of 40. While America has cut its crime rate dramatically Britain remains the crime capital of the West.
Studies have shown that guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens not only save lives but also protect private property, reduce injuries to good people, and crime is generally deterred. Lets hope Sotomayor has a grip on reality. The US doesn't want to end up lawless and "broken" like Britain.
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fuguyoutoo
Lotteria used to have an excellent straight burger a few years ago. Good size, lots of veggies, quality bun. The downside, the meat patty was always luke-warm, never hot ! Now ? The buns are hard as rocks, they've downsized the whole burger, and the zeppin was nothing more than meat and cheese... nothing else !
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fuguyoutoo
"Cleo- "He did well to protect his family, but it might have been better if he hadn't taken his family into lion country in the first place." Really? You're going to ding him for taking his family into the OUTDOORS? Where DANGEROUS animals actually LIVE?"
He was in the Shoshone National Forest people ! Welcome to life outside of Japan, yes where wild animals and man just may encounter one another. I'm with complexpoet on this one. Seeing wild animals in their natural environment has it's risks... but it sure is a helluva lot better than seeing them in cages like here in Japan !
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fuguyoutoo
Income has nothing to do with it ! If your poor you take advantage of the government freebies so readily available in the USA. If your poor you are probably skin and bones from a lack of food... of course unless you are really really taking advantage of those government freebies. See a trend here yet ? I put more substance into the fact that being overweight is simply accepted in the USA. Many parts of the world, like Japan, have serious hang-ups and biases against overweight individuals... not America.
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fuguyoutoo
Klein2 promised us a new take on this topic and then turned right around and served up more of the same ol same ol anti American nonsense. If I wanted to I could spend the rest of this post shooting down every so called reason you have for choosing to raise your kids in Japan. For example, Eric Cartman ? Yeh, like crayon shin chan and his foul mouth is any better ? And if it’s a warped sense of identity or so called “super hero” mentality that rubs you raw, well look no further than Akihabara ! You’ll find more than your fair share of disenfranchised comic reading reality challenged akb48 chasin’ upskirt photo takin’ glassy eyed teens ! And what makes you think your kids will have an advantage when it comes to math and sciences ? The USA is the world leader in advanced technology and has the Nobel prizes in science to prove it ! Klein2 bud are you for real ? Shake yourself for one minute and ask a simple question, If Japan is such a great place to raise kids… why have the locals stopped doing it? And at record proportions! Now if I may. In my opinion the criteria for raising kids falls under a few categories. The first of course is education. And I for one see no reason to send my kids to an institution that is nationally recognized to be so poor that every Japanese parent feels the need to send their child to a cram school every night of the week for 2-3 more additional hours of instruction. And even then statistics indicate that Japanese children are continuing to fall behind other nations that employ this same method. Nope, I prefer my kids get involved in after school sports or community activities. The second criteria on the list is; personal growth. Japan with its dependency on others mentality simply can’t prepare its youth for the realities of the world. Japanese children are over-dependent on mom from day one. Japanese children learn little about independence instead they are forced to rely on others virtually all the way through their young adult years. I love the fact that I learned to drive a truck on my uncle’s farm. Or that by the time I was 15 I had had enough part time jobs to buy my own car. Japanese children stand there with their hands out asking mom and dad for money their whole lives. The explosion in parasite singles here only adds evidence to how failed the society really is. My third criteria is; home life. Japan simply can’t compete with more advanced nations. Houses here are small, there is no privacy, the whole idea of- sleeping on the floor- eating on the floor-watching tv on the floor- playing on the floor… it’s all third world to me. It’s uncomfortable, dirty, and humiliating to live a life groveling around on-the floor! The fact that the father isn’t around is also a poor comment on Japan’s society. Anyone else see the NHK portion of “Okasan to isho ni” with the short video explaining why dad isn’t around the house ? God this is humbling to say the least. That’s right, NHK has a video segment where we see dad wolf down his breakfast, rush out the door, and spend his whole waking life a slave to corporate Japan. The video tries to explain to youngsters why papa isn’t around… how sweet ! Finally; safety. Japan is simply unsafe, especially for children. Crowded streets, stalkers, evil sickos in the porn industry, mentally
disturbed mixed in with the general population, teachers of questionable character, an apathetic police force, and more drugs and alcohol than you can possibly imagine. Japan is no different than many other countries in the sense, except for large doses of denial that linger about in many of the communities. One of the most shocking realities of Japan now is the fact that virtually every grade school kid in the nation has some kind of security device on him or her at all times. These kids have to walk in packs to and from school, they have phones to check in with parents and school officials, many are even escorted by their parents or volunteer adults… I see them by the dozens every day. Sorry, I walked to and from school for 10 years. Sometimes alone, sometimes with friends. My safety was never in question and I never once felt threatened. Japanese kids simply can’t say that. So again klein2 I ask you, if Japan is such a great place to raise your kids… why isn’t anyone, locals or foreigners, flooding the hospital wards to experience the wonder of it all?
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