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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motytrah
Sounds like an game developed for the staff at Mosburger.
Posted in: Nintendo DS game console helps spur interest in English in Japan classrooms
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motytrah
I feel bad about this, but I'm kind of glad they don't speak better conversational English.
Japanese IT workers are paid about 1/2 to 1/3 the amount of a similar US worker. If they actually spoke it as well I would view them way more threatening to my career versus Indian IT workers (which just aren't up to US standards usually).
I'm an IT consultant and I work with Fujitsu IT consultants everyday here in the US. None of them are Japanese, they are all American workers because of companies Fujitsu acquired. However, if they started to bring over Japanese educated IT professionals that spoke very good English? You could pay a Japanese IT worker double what they make now in Tokyo and it would still be less than most of us make in the US.
On the other hand, outsourcing is a fact of life that I've have come to accept, and as someone later in his career that tends to lead projects, I wonder if my projects may be more efficient if the outsourced work was done by J-IT instead of India-IT.
Posted in: Why don't Japanese speak English better than they do?
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motytrah
I think the Japanese have a love hate relationship with Guns. There are tons of J-Tourists that flock to shooting ranges in Hawaii.
Posted in: Supreme Court says U.S. Constitution gives Americans right to own guns
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motytrah
You never read about rape by some Yakuza henchman in the news. Yet it's a common theme in Japaneses entertainment.
Posted in: Which profession in Japan seems to be in the news the most due to deviant or unlawful sexual behavior by its members?
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motytrah
In the US the motto is "Never fish off the Company Dock". I've wondered how that works in Japan given the number of woman who aren't on a career track. At least compared to the west.
Posted in: How do you feel about workplace romances?
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motytrah
Basically you'll have to pay more if you don't want to stay. One of the example routes was Minneapolis to Chicago. There are a lot of business travelers who do day trips between the two cities. Leave in the morning, have your meeting, come back in the evening. Both Northwest and United have 10+ flights daily. If Northwest doesn't follow suite United is going to lose a business to them.
Posted in: United to require minimum stays for nearly all domestic flights starting in Oct
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motytrah
Lack of an accredited flight school for 747 in Japan. The US is, and always has been the gold standard for flight training. The 747's were built in Washington State, having a school near Boeing made sense. They don't make passenger 747's anymore, and JAL is shrinking it's 747 fleet, axing it's 11 inefficient 747-300s in 2009. So far JAL doesn't have any interest in buying the next generation 747i that's due out in a few years. It's not surprising they are shutting down the program.
Posted in: JAL says fuel too expensive to continue training at Washington state airport
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motytrah
So is lead paint as big of a deal in Japan as it is in the US?
Posted in: International Tokyo Toy Show 2008 kicks off
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motytrah
Don't get me wrong Farmboy, a midwest guy like myself could easily live in a place like Kyoto. I just think supply and demand comes into play. Finding a good and experienced senior level computer/IT consultant in the US can be difficult. We can extract bloated salaries for 40 hours of work. I think Japan has a better education system thus better supply of workers therefor lower wages. I'm too much of a single malt scotch addict to take the paycut. :)
Posted in: Stereotypes ’R’ Us
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motytrah
How good is the money? I consult in a technical field and it seemed to me that many of the fields were quite saturated already. The US had much higher pay, with a lower cost of living. Don't get me wrong, I love my trips to Japan, but the numbers didn't make sense to me.
Posted in: Stereotypes ’R’ Us
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motytrah
Most of the time when I'm in Japan I'm there on a laid back schedule. I'm not working an office job per se. I'm not traveling during peek hours, the trains aren't crowded. As such, the people around me aren't rude.
I would also say, people working service jobs (Hotel Staff, Taxi Drivers, Clerks, etc. ) are way more polite than their western counterparts.
That being said, based on what I have seen and read, I could never see myself working/living in Tokyo. Perhaps Osaka, however, I'm pretty sure my love of the 38 hour work week doesn't play well there. Certainly not at the rates I'm used billing US companies at.
Posted in: How would you compare people's manners in public in Tokyo with other cities around the world?
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motytrah
I was talking to a co-worker of mine who was stationed Japan in the 90s. A US serviceman he was acquainted briefly was serving time in Japanese prison. A couple years in to his sentence he was discharged to US custody when he suffered organ failure from malnutrition. The general thought is foreigners in Japanese prison do slightly better than WWII POWs. Which isn't saying much.
Posted in: Nick Baker sent back to Britain to finish jail sentence
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motytrah
What's the deal with Japanese prisons? They are supposed to be a first world country.
Posted in: Nick Baker sent back to Britain to finish jail sentence
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motytrah
They should consider themselves lucky it happened in Japan and not Singapore.
Posted in: British employee of Merrill Lynch Japan among 10 busted over cocaine use at nightclubs
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motytrah
Subtitles are the least of the problems foreign films in the US. Fact is very few foreign films get major distribution in the US. They usually play very limited schedules in small art theaters, or only make it to DVDs. Outside of Anime, Hollywood would rather remake a foreign film then invest any money in wide distribution.
Though most foreign films actually play with subtitles at the art house theater. They only get dubbed in the very rare instance when they get picked up for wide release. The question is wrong because the issue is most people simply won't pay money to see a foreign film. The only exception is Anime.
Posted in: Why do moviegoers in English-speaking countries tend to avoid foreign movies with subtitles, while in Japan, for example, it's just the opposite?
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motytrah
Most oil companies don't care one way or another about Hydrogen. Commercially, most hydrogen is a byproduct of natural gas processing. Most of which is released into the atmosphere right now. Sure, they aren't all that jazzed about paying to create the infrastructure to sell it globally, and some energy companies have weak natural gas portfolios, however, the end calculation is fuel cells will generally keep the status quo.
Posted in: Honda says hydrogen-powered vehicle lighter, more efficient