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Life in Japan really this crazy?

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Ahahaha...San Francisco and "Gay Bridge".

Cute stories. Looking forward to my own JET experience in 2-3 years or so.
 
Whenever there was a nomikai at my dorm in Sapporo, you always had to be on your guard for kanchou from drunk Japanese. Problem was, they had one nearly every day! You'd think I was attending a school for aspiring proctologists by the way these guys tried to get their fingers up your ass. Fortunately, I was alert, so I never experienced that bit of culture first-hand.
 
I think that if I ever step foot on Japanese soil it will be with only three goals in mind.

1. Gather as much stuff as I can manage to fit into my overhead compartment on the way back for all of my friends.

2. To visit the PokeCenter in order to find rare pokemon dolls and the like for my fiancee.

3. Just find some random convention for anime, games, whatever and go to it. Just to experience it, and perhaps to see if by that time I've managed to adequately train my pokemon. (if the english and japanese versions can even talk to eachother).
 
President Bush: Hey Japan, America's gonna invade Iraq. We want you to send us some troops for support.
Prime Minister Koizumi: Um, but...we don't really have an army, just a Self-Defense Force. And NOBODY here has anything to do with Iraq, the public is strongly anti-war, it's kind of pointless for us...
Bush: I don't care. Coalition of the Willing. You're coming.
Koizumi: Ok. I'm sorry for my insolence. The troops are on their way.
Bush: Oh yeah. Gaijin Smash.
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Awesome!
 
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Need I say more? No, no I don't.
 
You know, I lived in Tokyo for a year and nobody ever tried to stick a finger up my ass. They must be a lot less inhibited in Kansai.
 
sp0rsk said:
thats korean :p
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IT STILL APPLIES! :D

Geez, in America you get fired if you get caught with a high shool girl's hand elbow deep in your ass. In Japan, schoolgirls do it without your asking and it's deemed normal. Hentai fantasy funfest! :lol
 
I think there is a fair amount of creative license in this editorial. I spent a year in Japan and found a very different culture. I was a "Salary Man" though so I saw things from a whole different perspective. I think people in Japan like to fuck with the English Teachers a lot more then they would with a "Salary Man".
 
I've been meaning to start a post about that site for about a week. Thanks for saving me the trouble!

Also, while we're on the subject, has anyone here ever participated in the JET program? I'm seriously considering applying in September and would like to hear any positive or negative experiences anyone has had. For instance, what city did you live in and would you recommend it, etc, etc...
 
LOL! Thanks for the link, I'm a teacher as well and this stuff cracks me up. :lol

"Another day, another game of dodgedick."
 
Thanks for the links, nice read, but the guy is just wrong with 'The Cows Worst Enemy', he obviously doesn't know his steaks. Japan has the best beef ever, not the overcooked American shit.
 
Timbuktu said:
Thanks for the links, nice read, but the guy is just wrong with 'The Cows Worst Enemy', he obviously doesn't know his steaks. Japan has the best beef ever, not the overcooked American shit.
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I'll second that. Best piece of meat I have ever eaten is Kobe Beef. It was amazing head and shoulders above everythign else. Also the most expensive but it's worth it.
 
That Gaijin Smash, Gaijin perimeter, Gaijin Power thing was my favorite bit.

I want to go to japan and be a super hero too!
 
If you over 6 feet tall and not asian you will be exaclty that. And I tell you it's not all it's cracked up to be. I'm just your average guy and I'm used to being able to blend in. You have no idea how much you miss that kind of thing.
 
I applied this year and I'm thinking of setting up a Blog (one of many potential JETs I'm sure) to relate the experience.

I actually have my live interview next Tuesday...I'm a little freaked out, but one of the people who interviews candidates was my japanese prof. and she gave me some pointers so I should be OK...I hope...why did the weekend before my interview have to be the first weekend AFTER Chinese New Year's. :P

anyways, I heard wide-ranging stuff about being a JET

You're either a teacher completely in charge OR a human cassette player, who repeats phrases over and over again...

other than that, I heard stay away from big cities cause they're expensive, go to the subarbs

Heard good stuff about Fukuoka, Shizuoka, and Okinawa
 
I work as an English teacher in Japan as we speak. Life can be a little wacky at times for sure. I am working my way into a Japanese high school, but now I teach kids 4 - 18 years old. Never been asked if I had a big dick by any age group...
 
Thanks for the information, guys.

Kuro, you should definitely consider setting up a blog to document your experiences. I, for one, would find it interesting.

Blackace, did you have any prior Japanese experience? How difficult or easy was the interview process?

EDIT: Sorry. Apparently I can't read. I will now reconsider my qualifications for teaching anyone English.
 
Minotauro said:
Thanks for the information, guys.

Kuro, you should definitely consider setting up a blog to document your experiences. I, for one, would find it interesting.

Blacklace, did you have any prior Japanese experience? How difficult or easy was the interview process?
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Please don't call me Blacklace... ruins the whole tough negro image. I was teaching in the US for 3 years at a Community College for a Japanese exchange program, and I majored in Japanese history... so I guess I had some exp.
 
Mama Smurf said:
Your name isn't Blacklace?!

I just don't know what to believe anymore.
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You know,.. the Ace of Spades.... its black!!!
 
I've lost track of who is being mocked...

Regardless, we're straying from the original subject a bit. Aside from a minor in English and an interest in most things Japanese, I really don't have any other qualifications for such a position. I'll just keep my fingers crossed I guess...I don't know how much longer I'm going to be able to stand this software engineering job I currently have.

Thanks for the information though.
 
My friend started teaching English in Japan fresh out of high school this year with no knowledge of the Japanese language, and barely any education on how to teach. He tells me that so far, he's had a great time--the teaching methods employed don't rely on your knowledge of Japanese. In fact, you cannot speak Japanese at all while teaching the English course. I sent him this link a few weeks ago, and he confirmed that the wacky ass games were completely true. I questioned him as to whether or not the students were as wild as the site describes, and he replied that they usually weren't, but if they ever started fucking around, he didn't give a shit because he was being paid to be there and it didn't matter to him.
 
Minotauro said:
I've lost track of who is being mocked...

Regardless, we're straying from the original subject a bit. Aside from a minor in English and an interest in most things Japanese, I really don't have any other qualifications for such a position. I'll just keep my fingers crossed I guess...I don't know how much longer I'm going to be able to stand this software engineering job I currently have.

Thanks for the information though.
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if you want to do JET or be an ALT, or work at a conversation school to start with... a BA and some people skills is all you really need
 
My two cents about Japan is it was fantastic lots of fun people are great. Only two real drawbacks.

1.) You feel like Godzilla. Everywhere you go people look at you take you picture weird shit like that.

2.) And I'm sure this will piss some of you guys off. But alot of the English teachers are dicks. They let it go to their head and forget who they are. It used to always crack me up when you would see a total ugly nerd with beautiful women on his arm. They end with this huge ego and would brag up all the women they get. It always made me think, Dude who are you kidding you dont think I knew who you were back home.
 
darscot said:
2.) And I'm sure this will piss some of you guys off. But alot of the English teachers are dicks. They let it go to their head and forget who they are. It used to always crack me up when you would see a total ugly nerd with beautiful women on his arm. They end with this huge ego and would brag up all the women they get. It always made me think, Dude who are you kidding you dont think I knew who you were back home.
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Thanks for pissing all over my dream! <cries>
 
darscot said:
My two cents about Japan is it was fantastic lots of fun people are great. Only two real drawbacks.

1.) You feel like Godzilla. Everywhere you go people look at you take you picture weird shit like that.

2.) And I'm sure this will piss some of you guys off. But alot of the English teachers are dicks. They let it go to their head and forget who they are. It used to always crack me up when you would see a total ugly nerd with beautiful women on his arm. They end with this huge ego and would brag up all the women they get. It always made me think, Dude who are you kidding you dont think I knew who you were back home.
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Well I have a goal in Japan and plan to live here for the rest of my life following my dreams and goals... true a lot of teachers are dicks... but I have a vision and a purpose...


so there! =p
 
I did say some not all I met a few great guys in Japan. You just need to adjust your dream. If your dream is to go there andline up beautiful Japanese women and treat them all like shit and get away with it. You all set.
 
darscot said:
2.) And I'm sure this will piss some of you guys off. But alot of the English teachers are dicks. They let it go to their head and forget who they are. It used to always crack me up when you would see a total ugly nerd with beautiful women on his arm. They end with this huge ego and would brag up all the women they get. It always made me think, Dude who are you kidding you dont think I knew who you were back home.
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How are they getting "beautiful" women?
 
darscot said:
I did say some not all I met a few great guys in Japan. You just need to adjust your dream. If your dream is to go there andline up beautiful Japanese women and treat them all like shit and get away with it. You all set.
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Why do I need to adjust, I am doing my dream teaching English... I can treat women like shit in America
 
Blackace said:
Why do I need to adjust, I am doing my dream teaching English... I can treat women like shit in America
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I think he was referring to my fake dream. You know, the one I accused him of urinating on...
 
Put it this way. I'm a very average guy here in Canada, I'm not ugly but not handsome. In Japan I had beautiful women approach me see my wedding ring and ask how I felt about the Japanese culture of having a mistress. If you are over 6 feet and not asian you will have beautiful women lined up. If you short and not asian you will have very good looking women lined up. I'ld be sitting in McDonalds shoving a Big Mac in my mug and young girls would walk up take my picture, giggle, blush and run away.

Blackace I wasnt refering to you at all.
 
darscot said:
In Japan I had beautiful women approach me see my wedding ring and ask how I felt about the Japanese culture of having a mistress.
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So, can we get some Japanese mistress stories?
 
I was lucky enough to marry a beautiful Canadian girl before I went there. I'm not sure if lucky is the right word. It was honestly one of the hardest times for me when it came to that sort of thing. Basically I learned quickly to never go anywhere alone. I hung out with a few guy's that I introduced my wife to right away. A man just dosen't need that kind of temptation. If only I was single.......
 
One last thing, if you guys think the Japanese girls are bad you wouldn't believe the forigners. Especially the hot ones. There down right out of control. See, there used to getting all the attention then suddenly over there the guys that would have sold there left nut to get them in bed won't give them the time of day. Why would they? Why put up with there shit when they have the Japanese girls lined up. It's kind of poetic really. :D

The problem is if you give them attention just in a polite sort of way look out. I once had a beautiful blond drop a "Look, I'm a real blond with big tits lets just get out of here". She droped it mid sentence out of the blue right in front of a friend of mine. And thank god he was there or I would have been out the door with her.
 
Shit I'm like 5'5" I AM SCREWED!!! :lol

Kuro Madoushi said:
I applied this year and I'm thinking of setting up a Blog (one of many potential JETs I'm sure) to relate the experience.

I actually have my live interview next Tuesday...I'm a little freaked out, but one of the people who interviews candidates was my japanese prof. and she gave me some pointers so I should be OK...I hope...why did the weekend before my interview have to be the first weekend AFTER Chinese New Year's. :P

anyways, I heard wide-ranging stuff about being a JET

You're either a teacher completely in charge OR a human cassette player, who repeats phrases over and over again...

other than that, I heard stay away from big cities cause they're expensive, go to the subarbs

Heard good stuff about Fukuoka, Shizuoka, and Okinawa
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I applied for JET as well. My interview is next Thursday. I hope we both get in. :) Any pointers on the interview from your teacher you can share with us? I meant to go talk to my own teacher this week, but my grandmother passed away and I've been busy with various family "activities" from it. I still have next week to go talk my teacher though.

AFAIK you'll be a "human tape recorder" if you just applied for the normal JET program; you have to have teaching credientials to be anything besides an Assitance Language Teacher. Also you'll be in a suburb or rural area since it's next to impossible to get a JET position in a big city from what I am told. The application itself even said not to bother with places like Tokyo and Osaka! :lol
 
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