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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kirakira25
I agree it is a great way to keep in touch with people when living overseas, but I am not surprised we are in a global recession, given that all my friends seem to have stopped work and are intent on spending their days finding out what 80`s movie is their life/which Disney princess they are/sending me virtual drinks/testing their geographical knowledge etc etc...
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kirakira25
What a beautiful little girl! Same age as my daughter. I feel sick to my stomach.
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kirakira25
If he felt that much shame he would have turned himself in in the first place.
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kirakira25
Words fail me.
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kirakira25
Oops - hit submit! To finish: It is breaking my heart, but no way will they come to me - I am just too "uchi" for them to reveal their true self, and yet I so want to help.
Even my midwife has been telling me stuff!!!!
This problem is endemic in this culture and there is a DESPERATE need for proper, organised, professional help.
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kirakira25
nemoflow, tkoind2 et al - you are so right. When I was teaching English, believe me, for the vast majority of the private students English language was at best 50% of their reason for seeing me. The rest was all about offloading things they couldn`t tell anyone else.
They told me they don`t feel uncomfortable or judged when they talk to a non-Japanese. They went away feeling lighter, and I went away shocked and enlightened!
I have learned so much about real Japanese culture through these "classes". I am watching a close family member drink themselves into oblivion right now, (NOT my husband!) just because they are too proud to come to me and let me help them.
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kirakira25
Hon, I think it might be the answer to ALL my questions!!!
Yabusama - thank you SO much for that! Laughing so hard right now I`m getting contractions! I think you might just have kicked off labour for me!!!
Posted in: Is chivalry dead on Tokyo trains?
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kirakira25
@Azrael - I think you are right, but I am interested because I don`t honestly know - what actually then IS considered polite in Japan with regards to train etiquette?
Posted in: Is chivalry dead on Tokyo trains?
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kirakira25
@Yelnats - happy to be of service!
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kirakira25
The point I am making is that there is good and bad in every country, but to not offer up seats to a certain "category" shall we say of people because of a previous bad experience is pretty despicable IMHO.
I have had some wonderful and some not-so-wonderful experiences in Japan, but I would never dream of taking out some of my frustrations on the many Japanese I meet when I go home. It is not their fault!
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kirakira25
Is this article about chivalry or common politeness and consideration? It seems to be suggesting that only men should get up for pregnant women/the elderly/etc - but surely able-bodied women are equally obliged?
Right now I gratefully accept the seats I am offered, but when I am once more able-bodied, fit and alone (without the kids) on a train, I would no more expect the man sitting next to me to stand up "because he is a man" than I would expect to get up myself and offer my seat to the next pregnant/elderly woman or infirm man in front of me.
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kirakira25
I`m not a religious person generally, but in this case I make an exception - may God keep her safe and happy, help her friends and family to live with what has happened, and lead the people that are investigating this to the perpetrator before he strikes again.
I cannot in my wildest dreams imagine right now how her poor family must feel.
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kirakira25
I have to agree with this. In the park yesterday some totally out of control JHS kids were causing mayhem near us. I was freaking out because they nearly fell on me a few times and I have already been whacked in the stomach once with a soccer ball in this pregnancy and had to go to hospital - again, JHS students.
But as soon as my friend asked them to be a bit more careful and considerate, both of me and the fact that there were lots of little tiny kids around, they apologised and calmed down.
I find the old obaasan are the worst! Stressed out salarymen come a close second, and I`m sorry to say my own husband takes the bronze!
Posted in: Is chivalry dead on Tokyo trains?
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kirakira25
It
s true! After I hard day being pummelled by my boss, working hours and hours of unpaid overtime, having the OLs in the office giggle at my dress sense, on my way home to my wife who doesn`t like me and my kids who see me as nothing more than an ATM, I hang up my cellphone on the loan shark that is calling me again, fight my way kicking and punching to the front of the train queue, look up at all that dirty reinforced concrete and I see that blue light....instantly I am taken to the ocean and all thoughts of suicide are erased from my mind!Posted in: More Tokyo train stations start using lights to stem suicides
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kirakira25
I am heavily heavily...heavily (!) pregnant now, and not once have I ever had to beg for a seat.
There was one time when no-one could tell I was pregnant, I was very very sick, it was a hot day and I fainted in the carriage. When I came to about 20 people around me were standing up and someone had hauled me legnthways onto the now completely empty seats while someone fanned me.
Don`t know why people are so kind to me - maybe I have a menacing face and they are scared of me??! But I have never really had a problem with chivalry on trains - chikans are another matter!
But that is where it ends - doors flung in my face, salarymen kicking my stroller out of their way, and in particular queue-jumping right in front of me (mostly old ladies assuming I won`t say anything - BIG mistake!), JHS kids walking 5 abreast on the pavement so I have to step into traffic...etc etc
I think the train etiquette in Tokyo is pretty good actually, compared to London, but politeness in general is sadly lacking.
My husband tells me they don`t have a culture here of holding the door because they are used to the sliding screen doors culturally - I laughed and told him that was the best excuse for plain lack of common sense and selfishness I have ever heard!
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kirakira25
Whoa polarmalik! Easy there, tiger!
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kirakira25
This would actually be quite funny if it didn`t have such serious repurcussions for society.
In any case, welcome to the real world Japan. The corporate escalators all have maintenance signs on them, and the politicians are in their overalls, scratching their heads and wondering how to fix them.
So much for a Todai degree....
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kirakira25
Inside and out by the looks of it
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kirakira25
my2sense - sad, and yet so true.
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kirakira25
I like this girl! So refreshing to find someone self-assured with something to say for herself, who uses the position she has got into for good, not just her own benefit. She is pretty much the only role model I try to present for my own daughter growing up here. I would not be too unhappy at all if she turned out to be like Ms Chibana here.
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