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Japan FAQ 12: other jobs, being in a band, other languages

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other jobs, being in a band, other languages

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  • Thats totally wrong- you can totally get a job if its not teaching english.

    And the crap about fluent Japanese? Where does that place language students? and the people working in roppongi.. dude your totally wrong sorry.

  • @kurisusakura dont know how much of my channel you watched but this is concerning getting a visa and living in japan. yes you can work in food service. will it get you a work visa? no. can you survive on the pay? no. Can you find a job outside of teaching with no japanese if you arent living in densest parts of tokyo and osaka? no.

  • @unrested I dont know how old you are, but I know plenty of my younger friends here are students and we are working in like food service, stores like handm and forever 21, places like these. And yes, you can survive on the pay. Its not a huge amount, but hey were students. And if you come here just going to language school u can get a visa and do what you want, as long as u attend the classes. You should look more into visas before you think your an expert.

  • @kurisusakura but again they DO NOT get a WORK VISA. A student visa is a whole different story. This video has NOTHING to do with student visas. I have not gone to college and have never had a student visa nor do I talk about being an expert on that. Its really obvious you havent watched my video "JFAQ 101: Watch this first" where i say i have no expertise on getting visas related to college. AGAIN, this is about WORK VISAs and food service jobs WILL NOT get you approved for a WORK VISA!

  • @unrested my apologies too bro. this comment is too heavy handed and i regret that. I wrote a PM in explanation.

  • do you happen to listen to envy?

  • i dont think i am familiar? should I? viewers give me music suggestions all the time and i am happy to oblige them as i am a massive music nerd.

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  • Old video, but I was just so surprised when you said finnish. Was thinking you would say some common language but that really got me :P I am finnish myself.

    It would be REALLY interesting to teach my mother language in Japan.

  • How hard is it to get in the medical field over in Japan (specifically nursing)?

  • O~iiiiiiii~, chotto matte~ >:( You can't say that about music. I'm sorry, dude, but no. You do have your opinion and you are entitled to that, but you know what, I love the bands that they have over there. You can't tell people that, because you don't know all of your viewers personally and what their taste in music is like. Just because not all Japanese bands are like the Yoshida Brothers, or sound like what "gaijin" think is "Japanese music" is, doesn't make them BAD~! >:-( So; 黙れ~!!!

  • About the band thing, obviously making money at it is tough like you said. seems hard in the states too, but as far as playing in one just on the side for fun, how hard is it?

  • how about being a doctor in japan?! do tell please :))

  • Nice! :D I speak french and english as my second language. Just got to learn Japanese now :)

  • I'm in Tokyo, trying to get a job. Unfortunately I don't have a degree of any kind. That's been a huge limitation for me. I can get under the table work for cash, but I can't get a job to sponsor me for a visa without a degree of some kind, any kind... Might want to mention that if you haven't already. ^_^; Gomennasai if you already covered this in one of your other very informative videos and domoarigatougozaimashita for all your hard work. Otsukaresamadesu.

  • Hey scott, theres a great pop punk band from japan that I've discovered recently. They're called "specialthanks", i dunno if you've heard of them but you should check em out. I was surprised to see how many 'fatwreck' style/punk/poppunk bands (ken yokoyama etc..) there actually are in japan, Its interesting how big that style of music seems to be.

    link: myspacecom/specialthanks777

  • Why do so many people want to go to such a place? Everything about it seems to suck. In general, Japanese people dislike foreigners and so what do they want to learn languages for? Even the fluent speaking foreign technicians and professors are discriminated against and treated as outsiders.

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