This thread is for the discussion of the language, culture, travel, daily life, etc. of Japan. Let's tark at randam in Japanese and English. Take it easy!
Alright you fucks, I've decided to study Japanese at university. I want to move to Japan and work with tourism - I have almost a decade of experience in the hospitality sector. Most of all I just want to chill in a comfy town somewhere and go to onsen everyday.
Are you still thinking about going to Japan? I thought you've already found something else to pursue in your life. Just don't study a language at college... you learn a lot quicker by moving to a place where it's spoken. Start applying for ski resorts in Nagano or Hokkaido or something where Australian vacationers flock in wintertime.
Michael Jones
I can specialize in hospitality through my university, and it'd give me a very solid grasp on the language. I want to move to Japan, not just stay there for a season. Fuck Denmark, give me an onsen town.
Cameron Barnes
A lot of Japanese people are working in hotels like Imperial Hotel, but their degrees are from the fields unrelated to hospitality. Professions here are usually OTJ orientated in Japan, with a few exceptions like medicine, engineering, law, etc.
Hunter Miller
I don't even have a degree, I got hired part-time when I was 19 and have continued since then.
But back in Japan when I was there, I got offered jobs at hotels already simply because I'm a friendly gaijin - they want people who can speak English working at the front desk.
Christian Anderson
I remember that. There's serious labour shortage in the industry right now. But how old are you now? By the time you finish your college, you are like 30? It would be much harder to find a job here even if you become fluent in Japanese.
Parker Sanders
Why does age matter? I have worked in the industry since I was 19. They'd have to understand that you can change jobs.
In either case, I have contacts in Japan already, and even if I can't get anything through them, I would be able to work for the Danish Embassy or something. I'd figure it out.
Wyatt Torres
Age matters very much here. It's cultural. Does Danish embassy hire someone with no degree? And they are located in central Tokyo... that's different from what your initial goal of living in a comfy onsen town.
Xavier Jenkins
Sentou also works. And the point is that I'm getting a degree in Japanese, but applying my experience to get a job. I can understand if age + no experience matters, but not age + experience. Besides, I'd keep applying until I get a job, I don't want to work for ojiisan with no understanding of market value anyway.
Liam Cooper
My point is that it's stupid to spend years learning a language for a college degree. I don't know about Europe, but here in Japan "a new graduate" is a new graduate and no one cares if he had previous experiences in the industry. A lot of professions are OTJ orientated and it includes those in hospitality. The median age of Japan was 46.5 as of 2015. It's 2019 your chances of working for and with ojisan are much higher now.
Why is it stupid if it is something I want to do? I could just continue working in hospitality and live a comfortable life, but I want more than that.
Point is, I'm gonna work in an industry where I'd be considered a veteran from my OTJ experience, the Japanese degree is simply to grasp the language and to have a degree of some sort.
Jaxson Parker
college education is for knowledge not for skills. speaking a foreign language is a skill not knowledge. it's respectable to pursue what you are interested in, but whether people respect you, hire you, or pay you for it is a different story. But if you are still up for it, we are here to help you with your assignments and papers.
Kevin Brown
People will hire and pay me in one way or another. I might have to fight for it to be in Japan, but that's a battle I'm willing to take. Denmark has really good diplomatic ties to Japan, which helps me a lot.
Jack Wilson
>one way or another if you are go back to school at your age, your plan should be more solid than that. You have to be sure why you want to go back to Japan. Maybe you enjoyed being a special snowflake in a rural area? A little adventure of running away from yakuza with a girl? Your real fight to migrate to another country would be much less exciting. It involves paying your own bills and kissing asses of ojisan bosses. Being Dane doesn't exempt you from that...Japan has good diplomatic ties with everyone.
Connor Scott
You make it sound like I'm not used to that shit at home. I've been paying my own bills since I was 18. I'm not some sheltered NEET.
Caleb Robinson
I am talking about when you were wwoofing. you could buy your cigarettes without worrying about paying bills while you are staying at someone else's place. If you move to a foreign country as an independent worker, you have to arrange everything for yourself. It's a lot harder than you imagine.
Caleb Davis
hahahah
Sebastian Evans
Yeah, I did that in Australia, but I now know how to do it. And I've since then quit smoking.
Christian Perry
Weren't you staying at a neet guy's place?
Colton Phillips
danmachi I think
Charles Collins
I rented a room there, yeah. But I still had to go through all the immigration bullshit. Not to speak of having to do all that shit again when I returned to Denmark.
I'm very persistent, and get shit done, when it actually matters.
Christopher Roberts
>danmachi DANjonnideaiwomotomerunohaMACHIgatteirudarouka sure. it deserves to be abbreviated.
Aaron Lee
>immigration bullshit. you had the work holiday visa. that's simple as fuck. you'll be dealing with bigger bullshit if you are going to a country with very short history of immigration.
Anthony Martin
I don't mind. You have no idea the hell I went through when I returned to Denmark - I essentially didn't exist, and didn't have a tax record for like 3 months.
Sebastian King
you have a doctor mother. she proves your existence.
Jaxson Lewis
I don't talk to my mother, so no, she did not. My passport proved my existence, but I didn't not have health coverage or a tax record for months after I returned, and it was pain to get them.
Easton Russell
I have no idea how complicated that is in Denmark. It would involves a little bit of paper works if it was in Japan, but it shouldn't be a big issue. And believe me, we still use fax and our social services aren't very efficient when it's compared to Europe's. I just think you are overstating it as if it were a big deal. Or you are just terrible at handling those paper works.
Charles Baker
Considering it took two months, it was a big deal. And I've dealt with the Japanese bureaucracy for my part-time guide gig, you guys are pretty darn efficient. Pay everything in cash, invoice when transaction is done, boom. And you're exact when it comes to appointments, which is a joy.
Robert Hernandez
That's probably the case only in under populated rural areas.City halls in bigger cities are under staffed and lots of wait for nothing. Just don't get infatuated with Japan. Maybe Muslims and liberals are less arrogant here, but we have our own issues and they are pretty bad.
Elijah Martinez
You have onsen and nice countryside, and a culture of mutual respect and politeness. That's all I want.
Blake Cox
>mutual respect and politeness they are only for inner posse. they are available to a gaijin guest for a month or two. people are more complicated in rural areas. We get to hear about neighbours killing each other sometimes, and it always happens in rural areas.
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