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Forum: Japan

Feb 12th 2010, 1:00 pm

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Questions About Immigrating to Japan

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Posted By DigitalGhost

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I'd definitely agree with this but I am currently learning a little Japanese with my girlfriend each night at the moment just in case we do ever need to move there for a while. I was OK for most of...

Forum: Japan

Feb 12th 2010, 12:47 pm

Replies: 33

Questions About Immigrating to Japan

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They expect certain things from their own over there that Gaijin's are exempt from literally just because they are not Japanese.

One of her friends who lives in the UK now was telling me about how...

Forum: Japan

Feb 12th 2010, 12:44 pm

Replies: 33

Questions About Immigrating to Japan

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Posted By DigitalGhost

Re: Questions About Immigrating to Japan

She has a go but at the moment she is still mostly living off her parents as she's a student where as I work full time and we obviously hold seperate bank accounts so we're not really 'there' yet. I...

Forum: Japan

Feb 10th 2010, 2:40 pm

Replies: 33

Questions About Immigrating to Japan

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I know what you mean, I've often felt like I can be a little too polite for my own good sometimes and I've never really been the type of person to make a lot of noise about myself or to try to draw...

Forum: Japan

Feb 10th 2010, 10:45 am

Replies: 33

Questions About Immigrating to Japan

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I always thought that this invention summarised some parts of Japanese culture brilliantly:

http://gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/10/SkirtseGI.jpg

Forum: Japan

Feb 10th 2010, 9:37 am

Replies: 33

Questions About Immigrating to Japan

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Posted By DigitalGhost

Re: Questions About Immigrating to Japan

Exactly the same here, my OH and I go out to eat Chinese or Korean food at lunchtime almost every Saturday (kind of like a weekly date sort of thing even though we have lived together for around 18...

Forum: Japan

Feb 8th 2010, 8:58 pm

Replies: 33

Questions About Immigrating to Japan

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Re: Questions About Immigrating to Japan

Yokohama was the most westernised area of Japan which I visited in terms of layout and how open, relaxed and spacious it felt. I would say it was the only part of Japan which I could really see...

Forum: Japan

Feb 8th 2010, 3:23 pm

Replies: 33

Questions About Immigrating to Japan

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Posted By DigitalGhost

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Yours and mine both and I'm not even married to mine yet. :lol:

I think it is the strict adherence to the rules which got me the most though. In some ways it's amazing in that they have a profound...

Forum: Japan

Feb 8th 2010, 2:29 pm

Replies: 33

Questions About Immigrating to Japan

Views: 6,769

Posted By DigitalGhost

Re: Questions About Immigrating to Japan

Sorry, I thought you were of Chinese descent otherwise I wouldn't have mentioned it. To be honest, you would probably be fine. I have read stories about quite a few westerners who are ethnically...

Forum: Japan

Feb 8th 2010, 1:56 pm

Replies: 33

Questions About Immigrating to Japan

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Posted By DigitalGhost

Re: Questions About Immigrating to Japan

Be careful with that term, in Japan that is what they call the visa given to residents who are married to Japanese citizens. The visa you would be on is obviously different to that.

Forum: Japan

Feb 8th 2010, 1:50 pm

Replies: 33

Questions About Immigrating to Japan

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Re: Questions About Immigrating to Japan

Just teaching English, don't get me wrong, they are a lovely people but they have their visions of what an English teacher should look like and it usually means that Asian-western people don't get a...

Forum: Japan

Feb 8th 2010, 1:20 pm

Replies: 33

Questions About Immigrating to Japan

Views: 6,769

Posted By DigitalGhost

Re: Questions About Immigrating to Japan

Japan has some of the strictest immigration laws on the planet but they can often be seen as being a lot more sensical and straight forward than the likes of Korea or even the United States.

Your...

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