JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- 秘書及び業務サポート
- 加治金属工業株式会社, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥4.0M / Year
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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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I think that you'll find plenty of people in the west who would rather immerse themselves in MMPORGs and the internet than interact with the outside world, just that we dont classify them like the Japanese do. Personally I feel that the English term Nerd falls somewhere between "Hikkomori" and "Otaku" (after all, you could argue that the two words are just the introverted and extroverted sides of the same coin).
This problem is only going to get worse and worse as computer games become more and more able to represent fully realized, all immersive realities that are often a lot more stimulating, and a lot less harsh, than the big bad world outside.
Also, cant help noticing that in this time of recession, a night in with the playstation is a lot cheaper than a night out in Roppongi ...
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