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- Tips for Applying to Jobs in Japan
- June 10th, 2013Category: Teaching in Japan, Work Tips, Working in Japan
- Tips for Applying to Jobs in Japan In the previous video we discussed the options for getting to Japan. In this video we will discuss the steps need to apply for an English teaching job in Japan. One of the easiest ways to find a job in Japan is to upload your ... » Continue Reading
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- How To Get An English Teaching Job In Japan
- June 3rd, 2013Category: Teaching in Japan, Work Tips, Working in Japan
- How To Get An English Teaching Job In Japan Moving to Japan to work is a big step in anyone’s life and before making the move there is a lot of preparation and many questions that need to be addressed. The more you are prepared before you leave the better off you ... » Continue Reading
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- The Five Salarymen You Meet in Heaven. (And by Heaven, I mean just wherever…)
- May 20th, 2013Category: Culture, Play, Work
- Sal-a-ry-man (サラリーマン) 1) a person whose income is salary-based; a white-collar businessman 2) that un-genki dude on the train, dressed in black, reeking of Chu-hi and low-level distain. I didn’t know what a salaryman was when I came to Japan, but it didn’t take long ... » Continue Reading
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- Snow, County and the Wildness of Words
- May 17th, 2013Category: Teaching in Japan
- Yasunari Kawabata won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1968, mostly as a result of his novel, Snow Country. Called Yukiguni in Japanese, it is the subtly portrayed account of a businessman who visits a hot spring town in winter and his relationships with a popular ge ... » Continue Reading
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- Annoying Office Mates
- May 15th, 2013Category: Work Tips
- In my previous work office, we had a little poster near the pantry of the three wise monkeys. It's supposed to be a reminder for everyone to prevent rumors, problems and petty arguments among the group: hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil. Simple. Direct. Unfort ... » Continue Reading
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- First Impressions of Nagasaki
- April 4th, 2013Category: Teaching in Japan
- Having just completed my first week living in Nagasaki, Japan, I feel exhilarated and exhausted at the same time – talk about sensory overload! Having had a massive interest for all things Japanese ever since elementary school, (everything from manga to martial a ... » Continue Reading
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- Spring Cleaning the Teachers
- March 28th, 2013Category: Teaching in Japan
- After a long, dark and cold winter the first signs of spring are in the air. As each day draws out longer and the snow slowly melts away outside of the combini near my house there is a definite feeling of change on the horizon. I know it won’t be long before my frien ... » Continue Reading
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- Why Japan is Winning and “Western Management” isn’t.
- March 22nd, 2013Category: Starting a Business, Work Tips
- “Why was ‘Sunday Trading’ banned in England but never in Scotland?” I remember being completely stumped when the head of the MBA/MSc Programme at Queen Margaret University, Richard Bent, asked our class this question. The history of religion in Scotland and Engla ... » Continue Reading
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- It’s Not Too Late To Get A Job In Japan
- March 14th, 2013Category: Work Tips
- Ben and I have had an amazing adventure, and I hope some of you will be sharing your own soon. For those of you who are interested, now is the perfect time to find a job in Japan. The next school year starts in April and many people, like Ben and I, will be returnin ... » Continue Reading
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- Does “Management” Exist in Corporate Japan?
- March 8th, 2013Category: Teaching in Japan, Work, Work Tips
- What's the Japanese word for "Project Management"? Well, if you say the English words with a Japanese accent, you are probably pretty close. Like so many technical words of foreign origin, the Japanese simply render an approximation of the term with their "loan w ... » Continue Reading
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