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02-14-2018, 12:15 AM
I might try to see if I can get around to it, but in reality I am Hispanic-American since I was born and raised in the USA. Also, my Asian ex-wife had studied for one year in Australia and has parents that were always relatively welcoming of foreigners. Her father worked for a watch company in Europe and actually enjoyed his time there. I kind of had it easy. Also my nonchalant, not-easy-to-get-offended attitude (since I'm from New York City) probably gave me tough skin as well.
If you have any specific questions though, then maybe I can answer those, but I don't want to hijack the thread since it's more related to what's going on in Japan currently (and that's actually what I'm interested in knowing about).
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02-14-2018, 01:05 AM
Problem is I dont have a wingman. All my gaijin wingmen went over to Tokyooo
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02-14-2018, 04:24 AM
Guys, this is my first post on this site, so if I am breaking any rule apologies in advance. Just have one main question (which is somewhat out of context from what i have been reading so far in the tread, so if this is the wrong place/time for this then again, my bad)....
If one were to learn Japanese both spoken and all the writing systems (within reason on the Kanji... 2300 etc), and achieve JLPT N1 (both done independently) would it be possible or viable to go there and open a Eikaiwa/small school and make.... say... $70k a year or more? Is that kind of demand still there for English? Viable as an independent solo guy? Will I be run out but competition/yakuza or some shit?? Do I need some other angle to make it pop out AT ALL vs the other schools (I have considered using music to teach as I play some instruments)
Also, I have a B.A. am from the US and I aint a white guy either (if it matters)... Pushing 30... no kids or wife (fuck that).
Thanks
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02-14-2018, 07:29 AM
Quote: (02-14-2018 04:24 AM)jusblaze99 Wrote:
If one were to learn Japanese both spoken and all the writing systems (within reason on the Kanji... 2300 etc), and achieve JLPT N1 (both done independently) would it be possible or viable to go there and open a Eikaiwa/small school and make.... say... $70k a year or more?
You would really need to think what your unique value proposition is. The big companies are in every city and Japanese people prefer businesses that appear well respected.
China is where the big money is if you have a good unique value proposition, which mostly seems to be in relation to prepping teens to get into ivy league'ish colleges these days it seems, but the business environment is also 100x less straight forward and full of sharks that might steal / destroy your business.
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03-26-2018, 06:41 PM
I wouldn't be surprised if the decline mentioned by the OP corresponded with the downfall of the Nova eikaiwa chain in the mid-2000s. This was a big scandal that made many people skeptical of English education and probably had fallout for how the foreign community was viewed (which isn't really fair since Japanese at the top of Nova were behind it.)
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03-27-2018, 12:43 AM
^ ha, I don't recommend saying that. It's highly offensive.
PM me for accommodation options in Bangkok.
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03-27-2018, 10:36 PM
Some days I miss living in Japan. I was there for two years working for the us government so didn't have to deal directly with japanese work culture but I loved my off work lifestyle. Met lots of cool foreigners and dating was good.
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03-23-2019, 11:03 AM
As the op I was nova right before it went down in there large osaka office. That place sucked lol. Used it for the visa in between grad school years. I heard the collapse was apocalyptic.
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03-25-2019, 04:09 AM
Quote: (03-22-2019 10:14 PM)Rigsby Wrote:
It's just that everyone paints Japan to be such a family orientated society and it seems that it's not always that way.
Japan is a nation with strong concepts of male duty: For one's company, one's family, for society.
Women are largely absolved from this when they marry. They just chill in cafes with the girls while trash talking their husbands who are at home 1 day a week totally exhausted from work and hope some chad picks them up.
They have zero compassion for men on a much worse scale than western women. Anything that can be construed as complaining while you go through the meat grinder = you being a weak bitch.
As such a lot of men withdraw from society once their usefulness has expired - if they played the game to begin with at all.
I would guess that this dehumanization of men was engineered after WW2.
Princes of the yen is an interesting documentary in that regard:
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03-25-2019, 04:16 AM
i would argue Japan was never a good girl or wife hunting place.
but everything else is high quality