Most annoying are BOEs that lie to everyone and try to whine along side the others about how much their "JETs" cost, when they're actually using psuedo-part-time dispatch people that barely make 20...

Useful to note the people who bother with that crap have lame jobs like office or janitor. You'll never see anyone who's actually busy everyday wasting time like that. Telling...

I'm at a school with about 50 employees. Some are really nice and good people; some are backstabbers who spend most of their work time digging up things to bad mouth others about, and making it up...

I'd definitely have to disagree, as I've finally given up in these 6 years of trying to please the racists around me who pick fights no matter how hard I try to address their fake complaints (no, I...

The test translations are infamously horrible. One's best bet is taking it in Japanese...

If you get married in Japan, that's the standard procedure. A Japan marriage is basically a paperwork submission declaring the fact. Ceremonies/etc. are done completely separately (if at all) and...

Instead of bringing new people in for an expanded JET, how about finally taking care of all the existing ALTs slumming it out in dispatch? Or do they like paying for airfare and other unnecessary...

AU still has the most coverage area-wise. You may not care much if you live in Tokyo/etc., but out in the countryside there's still a lot of places the others just don't reach. I started with AU...

I gotta disagree with people saying they hate when foreigners talk in the same style that Japanese do (with the pauses, ehhhs, whatever). That's sh*t you just pick up and it comes out naturally in...

Seems foreigner population has been decreasing in recent years, but putting that aside...

Generally, the more hard-up a place becomes financially, the more crime increases. If nothing else, every...

And see the other cc posts in here. One rejection means no luck for 6 months. Try again before the period ends and you have to wait to try all over again.

Thank you.

So no updating the ARC at immigration.

Only? Nice...

I lived in nearby Oita and have many friends who either went there or worked there.

Foreign instructors are chewed up and spit out much faster than even other exploitive places. Teach a weekly...

And Twelvedown and Shonanfred's posts suddenly all come together...

What parts of Yokohama are specifically the most beautiful to live?

In Kanagawa prefecture (read: Kawasaki city), housing discrimination against foreigners is illegal (the only such prefecture in all of Japan). Whether they are trying to charge you double to...

Reading all of this made me stop and think... When I was in my college neighborhood in Oita a few years ago, people put out all kinds of sh*t. Somebody moving out? Futon, desk, fridge, kotatsu and...

I had read all of this awhile ago, but it hadn't really sunk in since I wasn't thinking about moving then. Filing the change of residence at the municipal office takes care of everything? (Or do we...

I guess that's a prevalent misconception then... The caseworker herself hinted that a mess-up this time could cause problems for future chances, but it's not an office that does submissions often...

Although most ALT positions are in the countryside and consequently require driving to all assignments, there still are a few areas around urban centers that don't (that's how I got in). Since these...

Do you mean your friend told you to renew a year in advance? If so, 2-3 months before is okay. Immigration will probably tell you to go home if you come a year in advance, because you would be...

But since your money's in yen anyway. it's not going to do any better in the tansu...

Maybe you could lie and say your receipt clearly states "delivery" (assuming he then doesn't summon you to come all the way over so that he can examine it...)

I live in south Yokosuka by the beach where it's not as busy as somewhere like Yokohama, and sometimes I see people (Japanese) skating along empty streets or the sidewalks by the beach, both kids and...