Jobs for Foreign Women in Japan?

[kamome]

Hey Neo: how does it feel to get slapped by a 15 year old?

If you're really curious I'm sure there are plenty in Shibuya willing to provide you that service for less than the price of a handbag.

Really? Can you tell me where, exactly???

[mr. sparkle]

AFS
Youth For Understanding

Those are two well-known organizations offering exchange programs for high school students. They offer summer homestay options and semester and year abroad academic programs. As Taro said, ask at your school for more information about these programs. Many schools have connections to these study abroad programs.

I like Ultra's advice. When I was in high school, we had a foreign exchange program, and I'm quite sure it was Youth for Understanding. I think all high schools have foreign exchange programs. If you piped up about it and talked to your school counselor now, you could be on your way to Tokyo by the Fall. Wouldn't that be kewl? You could learn a little J between now and then.

My neice is the president of the Manga club at her high school and reminds me of you. She loves Rob Pongi and I am hoping Uncle Steve will let her take a trip to Tokyo for her high school graduation present.

She's buggin' me to take her now, but here Dad is afraid Evil Pongi will corrupt her.


"hello karisa-come and sit in ol' uncle evil's lap"

I say go for it, if that's what you really want to do. Just look out for Evil at hanami time - he's a sick man.

[Taro Toporific]

Job hunt: A reluctant Japan is being asked by Asian nations to open up its labor market. The Asahi Shimbun / April 7
.... Nursing is a job area given special treatment. Foreigners can work up to four years in the profession in Japan as long as they have passed Japan's national qualifying exams, which are difficult and require high competency with the language.
Nguyen Thi Duyen, 23, from Vietnam, recently passed the national exam after graduating from a nursing school in Chiba Prefecture this spring. She arrived in Japan three years ago at the invitation of the Tokyo-based civic organization AHP Networks, which supports Vietnamese studying for Japanese nursing qualifications.
``Just learning Japanese was difficult (in addition to studies in nursing),'' she recalled.