Re: Random Japanese Signs

[Taro Toporific]

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#RESISTANCE via @KjeldDuits

[legion]

because men have it so great in Japan, work then die

[yanpa]

But at least they get their own illuminated baton to wave about.

[Taro Toporific]

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Japan's Omotenashi/hospitality Movement marches forward for the Tokyo's 2020 Olympics...

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Foreigner-Only Carriages To Be Introduced Ahead Of Tokyo 2020 Olympics
May 15, 2018 | @therisingwasabi

[Russell]

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Japan's Omotenashi/hospitality Movement marches forward for the Tokyo's 2020 Olympics...

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Foreigner-Only Carriages To Be Introduced Ahead Of Tokyo 2020 Olympics
May 15, 2018 | @therisingwasabi

Nah, I only will be satisfied when they introduce FG-only carriages...

[matsuki]

Foreigner-only carriages will be attached to the back of trains during morning peak times to reduce expected inconveniences due to an influx of gaijin.

The outrage! Who's gonna be our Claudette Colvin??

[Russell]

Foreigner-only carriages will be attached to the back of trains during morning peak times to reduce expected inconveniences due to an influx of gaijin.

The outrage! Who's gonna be our Claudette Colvin??

They don't put the gaijin in cattle carriages?!?

[Grumpy Gramps]

Different carriages for different gaijin, of course. Cattle carriers for the Chinese, first class airconditioned boudoir wagons with a free whiskey bar for the whities (excluding eikaiwa drones and salari men) and second class wooden seat rattle trolleys for the rest, of course. Easy little bureacratic procedure at the station each time to figure your status (bring juminhyo, zairyu card, passport, shitsuin, and a fax machine); outside rush hour you should be all sorted in less than 30 minutes.

[wuchan]

(excluding eikaiwa drones :

Where do they go? I kinda feel bad for the ones I meet that are over 40.


Really, I don't get it. They can make the same amount of money, with a bit more respect, working in a factory during normal business hours.

[legion]

(excluding eikaiwa drones :

Where do they go? I kinda feel bad for the ones I meet that are over 40.


Really, I don't get it. They can make the same amount of money, with a bit more respect, working in a factory during normal business hours.

but you don't get to teach classes of 19-21 year old females in a factory

I think the Eikaiwa put down thing is in very poor taste, over the years I've known a few senseis, they are usually decent folk, often teaching while they pursue other interests, martial arts, mountaineering, diving, music etc. That some people feel compelled to play some kind of imaginary gaijin hierarchy game says more about those people than the Eikaiwa guys. Innate insecurity perhaps, a knowledge that we are really just some disposable suit pushing keys, making up numbers, or filling a quota? And let's face it, all us "we speak a bit of nihongo" folk are replaceable by cute young 20-30 yamato somethings who lived abroad while daddy was transferred. Who gives a fuck their heads are full of candy crush, they have the right passport so they are the Japanese idea of "international".

And to be honest there are times when I envy the option to talk to people all day rather than doing what I do, which is stare at a fucking screen and try and find amusement value in shampoo. It comes in pink and white out of a tube, wow!

[matsuki]

I think the Eikaiwa put down thing is in very poor taste, over the years I've known a few senseis, they are usually decent folk, often teaching while they pursue other interests, martial arts, mountaineering, diving, music etc.

I don't slam those doing the Eikaiwa thing for the same reasons you posted and it's definitely tasteless and born from insecurity....however for every decent person I know doing that gig, I've met 3 others that give it that shitty image it's famous for. Be it the fresh out of uni entitled millennial who is yet to learn his/her place or the grizzled 40 something that's been here for decades and has yet to learn enough Japaneeeezu to communicate, there is no denying there are some particularly sad folk to be found there.

[Russell]

Different carriages for different gaijin, of course. Cattle carriers for the Chinese, first class airconditioned boudoir wagons with a free whiskey bar for the whities (excluding eikaiwa drones and salari men) and second class wooden seat rattle trolleys for the rest, of course. Easy little bureacratic procedure at the station each time to figure your status (bring juminhyo, zairyu card, passport, shitsuin, and a fax machine); outside rush hour you should be all sorted in less than 30 minutes.

I do wonder how they will cope with interracial people...

[Russell]

And to be honest there are times when I envy the option to talk to people all day rather than doing what I do, which is stare at a fucking screen and try and find amusement value in shampoo. It comes in pink and white out of a tube, wow!

See it from the bright side. It is better than trying to find amusement value in shampoo that comes in only one color...

[wuchan]

(excluding eikaiwa drones :

Where do they go? I kinda feel bad for the ones I meet that are over 40.


Really, I don't get it. They can make the same amount of money, with a bit more respect, working in a factory during normal business hours.

but you don't get to teach classes of 19-21 year old females in a factory

I think the Eikaiwa put down thing is in very poor taste, over the years I've known a few senseis, they are usually decent folk, often teaching while they pursue other interests, martial arts, mountaineering, diving, music etc. That some people feel compelled to play some kind of imaginary gaijin hierarchy game says more about those people than the Eikaiwa guys. Innate insecurity perhaps, a knowledge that we are really just some disposable suit pushing keys, making up numbers, or filling a quota? And let's face it, all us "we speak a bit of nihongo" folk are replaceable by cute young 20-30 yamato somethings who lived abroad while daddy was transferred. Who gives a fuck their heads are full of candy crush, they have the right passport so they are the Japanese idea of "international".

And to be honest there are times when I envy the option to talk to people all day rather than doing what I do, which is stare at a fucking screen and try and find amusement value in shampoo. It comes in pink and white out of a tube, wow!

Eikawa and Uni teaching are different things. Shit, teaching Uni here seems like a great gig. Endless young tail wondering if the stories of the size difference is true.....


I was referring to the people singing the same song over and over with elementary school kids. We all know it's an easy way into Japan but should also be temporary. Somehow some guys (it's always a dude) manage to stay in those places long after their expiration date. They almost are always extremely jaded and tend to only talk about how much Japan sucks. The other side of that are the creepers that seem to enjoy playing with other people's kids way too much.



I imagine being a salary slave at a J-co is probably just as bad. Maybe worse considering the fact that a gaijin won't have the same advancement opportunities as his native coworkers.

[matsuki]

I imagine being a salary slave at a J-co is probably just as bad. Maybe worse considering the fact that a gaijin won't have the same advancement opportunities as his native coworkers.

I know people that came here to do that an "upgraded" to eikaiwa.

[legion]

And to be honest there are times when I envy the option to talk to people all day rather than doing what I do, which is stare at a fucking screen and try and find amusement value in shampoo. It comes in pink and white out of a tube, wow!

See it from the bright side. It is better than trying to find amusement value in shampoo that comes in only one color...

I will take great comfort in that thought.

[legion]

I imagine being a salary slave at a J-co is probably just as bad. Maybe worse considering the fact that a gaijin won't have the same advancement opportunities as his native coworkers.

I know people that came here to do that an "upgraded" to eikaiwa.

I can see that.

As for advancement, I think if you are prepared to suck corporate cock and drink your liver into submission you can climb the ladder. However I am now at an age where I see the physical downside of that approach, my last boss now walks like a spaz because of a stroke, and he is a few years younger than me. My current boss spent Golden Week having his clotted arteries cleaned out, and he is a lot younger than me. So I am conversely glad that many years ago I decided to keep my corporate cock sucking and drinking down to the barest minimum.