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Omicron probably started in Japan. I mean, it sounds like a Japanese virus already.
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Mercifully, it seems like the flight stop request has already hit rough political waters and will be reversed. So that’s a bit of good news.
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Dec 2, 2021 08:55
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Waltzing Along posted:Omicron probably started in Japan. I mean, it sounds like a Japanese virus already. p. sure i know someone with an omicron camera
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Dec 2, 2021 09:58
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Waltzing Along posted:Omicron probably started in Japan. I mean, it sounds like a Japanese virus already. Japanese xenophobia has let to an environment where covid can mutate into the perfect japanese borne pandemic.
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Dec 2, 2021 22:47
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the embassy emailed me to let me know that the visa i got from them is no longer valid for entry, so yeah i guess i got really lucky
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Dec 3, 2021 01:54
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kimetsu no yaiba is annoying and stupid and im tired of seeing it
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Dec 9, 2021 14:59
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Shibawanko posted:kimetsu no yaiba is annoying and stupid and im tired of seeing it i liked it
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Dec 9, 2021 15:02
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It’s good
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Dec 9, 2021 15:08
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Well, pushed the cancel button on my flight. I was prepared and committed but it still sucks to see May disappear. Still excited about seeing how we're looking come October/November, thanks for the weather/climate suggestions 
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Dec 9, 2021 15:10
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Shibawanko posted:kimetsu no yaiba is annoying and stupid and im tired of seeing it It's meant for children.
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Dec 9, 2021 15:21
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LyonsLions posted:It's meant for children. Stringent posted:i liked it
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Dec 9, 2021 15:22
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I remember seeing the pilot on netflix while drunk with friends It was, like, a critical mass of cliche.
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Dec 9, 2021 21:08
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LyonsLions posted:It's meant for children. it's bad for children. children should watch like, wanwan and chibimaruko
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Dec 10, 2021 01:18
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Martytoof posted:Well, pushed the cancel button on my flight. I was prepared and committed but it still sucks to see May disappear.  but good call.
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Dec 10, 2021 01:26
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Shibawanko posted:kimetsu no yaiba is annoying and stupid and im tired of seeing it And it was even worse last year, believe it or not. LyonsLions posted:It's meant for children. The new season is apparently set in the old Yoshiwara district.
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Dec 10, 2021 01:41
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Some people on the Japan subreddits are really incredible  This one is, somehow, the most grounded one of the few I saw 
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Dec 10, 2021 08:37
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AHH F/UGH posted:Some people on the Japan subreddits are really incredible Electrician? Grounded?  I actually don’t think the second guy has as big an issue, I don’t think there are credit checks across borders. But if they don’t have a good job or money in the bank (or both) they’ll struggle to get an apartment anyways. Poster wanting to be a mangaka has somehow missed how it grinds most people into a fine powder as an industry, and likely will ignore any and all advice to that end.
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Dec 10, 2021 08:48
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we were able to use our airmiles to get a free flight to sapporo and back, and right now sapporo has a ridiculously good deal where you get a big discount on your hotel reservation plus a bunch of restaurant coupons. this is a basically free domestic trip went to maruyama zoo today, a really fun zoo, able to see the animals up very close and they're not in tiny exhibits like in ueno, spent about 20mins just watching the tanukis
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Dec 10, 2021 09:42
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Based on some Bolivans with Japanese ancestry I know, you don't need a license to do electrical work but you need a license to get raises and promotions. Otoh they have JP passports and work permission. Also there are cram schools just for electrician license tests that cater towards these workers doing the test in Japanese.
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Dec 10, 2021 11:24
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Just a guess but I’d also imagine that you’d need to speak Japanese well enough to understand safety and hazard warnings, and understand how to read circuits in Japanese completely. Outside of that I have no clue who would hire some rando from Texas to do their electrical work, nor any company that would either. I mean I’m sure they probably exist but it’s so rare you might as well not try. Like, dude. Just teach English.
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Dec 10, 2021 11:58
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AHH F/UGH posted:Just a guess but I’d also imagine that you’d need to speak Japanese well enough to understand safety and hazard warnings, and understand how to read circuits in Japanese completely. Outside of that I have no clue who would hire some rando from Texas to do their electrical work, nor any company that would either. I mean I’m sure they probably exist but it’s so rare you might as well not try. that guy could totally work as an electrician if he could get a visa.
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Dec 10, 2021 12:01
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Dumb foreigner aspirational engagement in Japan: I would love to do a sabbatical for a six month Japanese language course in the country at some point before I die. I'm at the point in my career where I can dictate when I hit the pause button without worrying about dying in a ditch. I don't really have a useful need for Japanese in my daily life, I don't have any specific plans to use Japanese outside of just docking around the country, I hate anime and don't read manga so anything I learn will probably go to waste in the first year when I don't read or keep up with media consumption, but I'm still determined to spend a few thousand earth dollars to attend a dingy cram school in some run down office building in a Tokyo suburb with a bunch of white nerds half my age. All just to spend some time immersed in the country before I die. RIP me
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Dec 10, 2021 13:44
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I'm sorry you hate the entirety of Japanese animation. Do you hate all animation, or just animation that comes from Japan?
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Dec 10, 2021 13:52
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Martytoof posted:Dumb foreigner aspirational engagement in Japan: Six months is three bashō if you time it right! That’s plenty to watch on TV and try to gain comprehension of. Having watched people come from overseas, speak little to no Japanese, and find a lot of different hobbies or groups to spend time with: it’s not just weeaboo poo poo all the way down. I would just recommend basing out of Not Tokyo for that six-month period.
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Dec 10, 2021 14:06
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Martytoof posted:Dumb foreigner aspirational engagement in Japan: There are literal tons of media that isn't anime or manga? Books, movies, TV, youtube... Idk it just seems like a strange thing to worry about.
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Dec 10, 2021 17:45
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AHH F/UGH posted:Just a guess but I’d also imagine that you’d need to speak Japanese well enough to understand safety and hazard warnings, and understand how to read circuits in Japanese completely. Outside of that I have no clue who would hire some rando from Texas to do their electrical work, nor any company that would either. I mean I’m sure they probably exist but it’s so rare you might as well not try. You would need to learn Japanese but you can totally get a job in the trades there if you do. I know a couple people who moved to Japan and Korea to do electrical and gas stuff. They both have the same problem as the US, everybody in the trades is loving old as poo poo and there aren't enough replacements. Plus you get a real career instead of being stuck at the bottom forever.
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Dec 10, 2021 18:23
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OK well I guess what I'm saying is I don't typically consume a ton of Japanese media so it'll probably get lost. Was trying to make a flippant remark and not some grand statement so I apologize I worded it poorly or didn't put more thought into what I was trying to say
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Dec 10, 2021 18:25
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Martytoof posted:OK well I guess what I'm saying is I don't typically consume a ton of Japanese media No one actually cares and there is no chance it has any impact on your ability to immigrate to Japan.
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Dec 10, 2021 19:26
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For sure, but I have no desire to live there long term. Perfectly happy being a tourist outside of this little six month stint I want to try I guess? People were posting dumb foreigner stuff and I figured I’d toss in my own little dumb foreigner aspirations about hanging out for six months in glorious nippon for a laugh, nothing more. some kinda jackal fucked around with this message at 19:33 on Dec 10, 2021 |
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Sure go for it! Once students visas exist again… If you find the right school, most of the students will be from other Asian countries (mostly Vietnam and Indonesia, plus Mongolian if you're lucky) and you'll be forced to use Japanese to communicate with classmates. The language school in my town is all 18 year old Indonesians. Each school has their own recruitment strategies.
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Dec 10, 2021 23:57
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the tokyo language schools are heavily korean/chinese
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Dec 11, 2021 02:00
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an interesting thing about learning languages is that it's just a skill. if you really want to learn japanese probably the best prep you could do would be learning a different language. assuming you're in the us you should learn spanish, shouldn't take more than a year and you'll have a better handle on how you learn and study for the next one.
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Stringent posted:an interesting thing about learning languages is that it's just a skill. if you really want to learn japanese probably the best prep you could do would be learning a different language. Seconding this. Learning a second language teaches you not only about that language but your own as well. In turn, this lets you better think about language in general, how to compare them, how ideas are expressed, etc.
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Dec 11, 2021 03:19
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I learned a second language and now I can thoroughly convey my stupidity through two distinct vocabularies.
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Dec 11, 2021 10:54
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Better to just start learning Japanese now. Six months is not nearly enough time to go from nothing to decent at Japanese. Six months of immersion can get you from semi-fluent to fluent though as you'll get a lot more out of the immersion if you have a fundamental understanding of the language to hold basic conversations.
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Wasn’t intending to turn this into a drawn out discussion about my specific thing, I really just wanted to make a lame self deprecating joke but I am appreciative of the support nonetheless I know three languages and I’ve been working on Japanese off and on for like six years now — my most successful stints at retention and new information were immersive no-english weekly sessions in a classroom before COVID so I am hyped on an immersion sabbatical
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my wife thought we could save money and get better quality sashimi by buying raw fish from the local market and cut it ourselves with a knife and cutting board from daiso, she thought if it was advertised as "meant for sashimi" it would be a matter of making a few cuts and serving it up i just spent half an hour at our hotel room desk dissecting a raw octopus head and shanking a live abalone. my hands are covered in slime and i smell like fish, ftw
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Shibawanko posted:my wife thought we could save money and get better quality sashimi by buying raw fish from the local market and cut it ourselves with a knife and cutting board from daiso, she thought if it was advertised as "meant for sashimi" it would be a matter of making a few cuts and serving it up yeah it's a lot more difficult than it looks
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also visited the statue of dr clarke (the "boys be ambitious" guy), turns out he was a psychopath who'd respond to students complaining about the cold by taking them outside and shoving their heads in the snow and sitting on them. i don't really recommend going up there since it's just his statue, a memorial hall eulogizing him and an open field that's probably very spectacular to a japanese domestic tourist who's never seen a grassy field before but not to anyone else sapporo tv tower was alright as an observation deck but it's arranged as a tourist trap with mandatory photo and gift shop etc mt moiwa was a good day trip though. it's nice that all of these attractions are for free for a certain period, mt moiwa had a long queue but it was actually worth it, great view of the city
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Shibawanko posted:i just spent half an hour at our hotel room desk dissecting a raw octopus head and shanking a live abalone. my hands are covered in slime and i smell like fish, ftw OK forget the language school this is my new thing
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