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Anonymous
Im going to japan.
How hard is it to be understood over there? is the english rate fairly high?

Also, if I were to stay long term, how hard, as an english speaker, would it be to get a good job and reasonable housing?
>> Anonymous
they wont understand shit you're saying.
the ones that do are all crazy about white westerners and think they're better than everyone else.

good job with only english? hard, i'd say.
>> Anonymous
Japanese slang nowadays is just a collection of Japanicised English words.

Just speak with a very heavily Engrish accent and odd, ambiguous grammar and they'll think you're a native Jap.
>> A. Niger !aNIgERyWIs
No. You won't get a good job and housing if you won't make the effort of fucking learning the language of the country you want to live in, be it Japan or Zimbabwe.
>> Anonymous
>>6087
Good luck.

>Housing Discrimination in Japan
http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=3149

>Xenophobic Residents Pressure Realtor Into Not Selling Land To A Foreigner, Face No Punishment
http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=2144
>> Anonymous
>>6100
In Mexico it's the same deal; badly appropriated English words.
>> Anonymous
>>6106
Even though what you say is right, it's people like you that make it sound so very stupid.
>> Anonymous
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>>6100
>> Anonymous
Job eh? Well, the Japanese government requires that any foreigner working in Japan hold at least a Bachelor's Degree.... and since you are still in the "Fantasizing about running off to Japan and living there" stage, I'm gonna assume you don't have one.
>> Anonymous
Japan bemoans their population decline, but they refuse to change the laws that make it so hard for weeaboos from around the world to move there. HURR DURR.
>> Anonymous
>>6133

lol sauce
>> Anonymous
>>6133
:3
>> Anonymous
hgow can i get a cheap fast backalors CLEP!
>> Anonymous
goddamn weeaboo
>> cancoffee !!EYZNKoX7/Ih
>>6142
I don't think importing the failures from other countries is a good way of making things better.

>>6087
There's always someone who speaks English well enough to get by. JR is all in English sign/ticket machine wise, so no worries there. Speak slowly, but don't just steadily ramp up the volume, that doesn't help.

A good job on just English doesn't exist really. And you need a bachelor's degree at least to get a long-term visa. Go to school and study the language, do an exchange and make sure you have your rose-colored glasses off before doing anything.

If you suddenly think you'll be in a place where normal people chat about anime at work around the water cooler and all women are hot and want you for being foreign (especially in a big city) then grow up and look at reality.
>> Anonymous
>>6087

You cant live there permanently without marrying a Jap. Assuming you already know this (seeing as its common knowledge) I presume you're going for the weaboo experience. If you've got a bachelors degree, look at going there for a year to teach English, its shit pay, but you'll be in Japan.

Also, if you can dont go with the larger companies, try for a small independant school, the larger companies place strict rules on their employees.
>> cancoffee !!EYZNKoX7/Ih
>>6186

Yes you can. If you have a clean record after five years you can apply for citizenship. You need to take a Japanese name though.

If you marry you don't need to take a Japanese name.
>> Anonymous
>>6187

Ah, learn something new etc.

I assume the applications are usually denied though.
>> cancoffee !!EYZNKoX7/Ih
>>6189
Not really. Live in Japan for five years, don't get in shit with the police, renounce citizenship to all other countries, be 20 years old or older and competent and capabale of supporting yourself. And I'll correct myself, you don't need to take a Japanese name (a friend of mine did, but it isn't necessary)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_nationality_law
>> Anonymous
The giving up citizenship part is the shity part.
>> Anonymous
>>6197
Doesn't Canada allow Dual Citizenship w/ Japan?
>> Anonymous
>>6208

If one of your parents is Japanese then yes. However you have to renounce your Canadian citizenship by the age of 22 or you lose your Japanese citizenship.

Don't move to Japan. You will definitely regret it.
>> Colonel Leslie "Hap" Hapablap !!gXfUoBiL+Be
>>6186
Even that marrying a Japanese isn't a full shoe in to get citizenship. I know a few people married to Japanese nationals, have their own personal English school, and still have to apply for a visa to stay in nation every year
>> Anonymous
Not a Japanese citizen myself, but I hear that besides being in country for the required amount of years, age etc... There are also inspections to check if you're Japanese enough - that is to say, you're not disrupting the fucking "Wa" with pink lawn flamingos, wearing bermuda shorts while barbecuing, and other Western foulups.

Taking a Japanese name certainly helps. If I was to do so, I'd take one of my ancestor's. If you don't intend to become a citizen, but still wish to stay long term, being educated definitely helps. Get a bachelor's or higher degree. If you want to be an English teacher, that's fine, but that's somewhat of a dead end from what I hear. Good luck.