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by laurieg 9y ago
The immigration bureau has an English page for the highly skilled professional visa: http://www.immi-moj.go.jp/newimmiact_3/en/ The English page for immigration has lots of information, but it is quite vague and
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by laurieg 9y ago
This is not true. If you have permanent residence you can retire in Japan and claim the National Pension if you paid in for enough years. In fact, recently the number of years of payment required was reduced from 25 to 10.
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by laurieg 9y ago
Regular working visas and the points system are completely seperate systems. It is true that if you have enough points on the highly skilled professional visa you can get permanent residence (PR) in only one year. On a regular work visa you
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by laurieg 9y ago
I remember being recommended Shinsei for banking. "Oh great, they have an account setup app". I go through the app, take pictures of my documentation etc. "How easy!" I thought. I get a call later asking me to visit a br
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by laurieg 9y ago
Japan's immigration system seems heavily set up to encourage young people to come, work and then leave. This startup visa is good for getting a toe-hold on Japan but only targets people out of country. If you live in Japan already (so
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by laurieg 9y ago
Hello fellow Fukuokarite! The city has definitely been pushing hard for foreign startups but the changes they are making are only baby steps and PR in my opinion. I thought it was rather strange that the press conference held by the mayor
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by laurieg 9y ago
Your post has a lot of great information in, but I must take issue with: > (you never become a citizen if you're not japanese). This is not true. Japan has a very clear path to citizenship. If fact, you need 10 years consecutive r
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> Humans are happy if they are relatively well off compared to what they know. So true. I have enough money to pay for my apartment, hobbies, new technology etc. I know that a lot of my friends earn 3 times my salary and to be frank, i
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by laurieg 9y ago
A Japanese person might say "Why bother writing 'dog' and 'dogs'? If you have more than one why not just write '2 dog'?" Careful throwing those stones!
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The negative transfer that Japanese people are faced with when trying to learn English is really a incredible. Not only do they have a huge number of mis-leading false friends and corrupted loan words (for example the word for plug socket i
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by laurieg 9y ago
Is there any interest in a Fukuoka, Japan meetup? I know the startup scene has been taking off here.
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It is real. It has been featured on several national Japanese TV shows, the site has been maintained since 2012 Another commenter posted that the company is listed as "Established April 1 2009" but that is likely just for financi
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by laurieg 9y ago
I used to work as a Japanese to English Translator. It's all to common to see titles like this become the canonical English title because some editor who has a shaky knowledge of English says so. Once the title is canon it's har
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by laurieg 9y ago
When I was younger a cinema chain in the UK used to offer an unlimited subscription for 13 pounds (about $17). The only restriction was you could get cinema tickets for two shows whose start and end times overlapped. I spent a wonderful su
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by laurieg 9y ago
I patreon , it allows me to support podcasts and youtube producers that really wouldn't get the light of day otherwise. That said, patreon is centralised. What happens if you're a creator and that $2000 a month stops coming from
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by laurieg 9y ago
Domain specific but if you detect a bot you can start giving it false information. For example, a dictionary site. Someone tries to crawl your site after triggering your "This is a bot" code, serve bad data to every 20 requests.
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I came here to say this too. All to often TV has an interpreter and is editing together to make the interviewer seem like they understand. Even worse, the interviewer reads the question in English and then the interviewee responds in the n
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by laurieg 9y ago
Maybe I'm being simple but, if it's in pre-literate times, how do you know someone is telling exactly the same story? Couldn't they just tell a story with the same major plot points and fill in the details as they go?
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by laurieg 9y ago
I would like to stop, but the devil is in the details. Facebook is used for many social and business events. I get a lot of work via contacts that come through facebook. Withought it I'm certain I would miss out on some of these. I&#x2
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by laurieg 9y ago
This is a really common habit with Japanese speakers of English. In Japanese acknowledging sounds know as aizuchi (相槌) are used far more frequently than in English. One common aizuchi is hai (はい) which is can be translated very literally a
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by laurieg 9y ago
This might sound strange, considering the opening article, but have you considered Japan? Despite what rumours online may say, getting a work visa is not hard. You only need to have a university and a company willing to employ you and then
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by laurieg 9y ago
It's a bit of a stereotype but: Unhappy home-lives. If you're going back to an abusive spouse, a crowded house with inlaws and kids, no privacy at all or other problems, I can see why some people might hide at work.
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Best case scenario: passed over for promotions, cut out of important work discussions, generally ostracized. Worst case scenario: outright abuse. Just to give you a taste of this: In a previous job in Japan there was a work party on the we
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by laurieg 9y ago
Premium Friday is a strange kind of a joke. It's far too little, and no one follows it anyway. I'm in a startup in Japan. Our offices are in offices provided by the city to encourage startups. I don't know anyone who is doi
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by laurieg 9y ago
Learning about different languages and what they are for will give you an extremely superficial understanding of what's going on. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I recommend skimming a book like "Computer Science An Over
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How did you generate the questions automatically? This is something I have tried to do with natural languages in the past but getting good, error free, unambiguous questions out of an algorithm seems to be really difficult.
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One thing that I notice is missing from most (all?) online language courses is wider context. Not cultural context, but basic grammatical context. Most of them on focus on learning words or sentences. This is fine for similar languages.
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Although in the originl he used the word "glister".
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I think you may have read that wrong: (code tangling) a la orgmode. "a la" means "like" or "in the same way/style".[1] I believe "code tangling" has some connection to literate programming and mi
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by laurieg 10y ago
I find the Japanese milk to be rather sturdy, I often keep it for a month or so (though I only use it for tea so a little change in flavor probably goes unnoticed).

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