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日本の家 Anonymous Thu Nov 17 12:19:40 2016 No.16117067 [Reply] [Original]

I have a very strange sense of warmth when i see Japanese residential areas. Not sure what it is, but when i went to Japan last year, i wanted to be more in the residential areas of Sapporo than in the city itself.

It just seems so cozy.

pics pls.

Anonymous Thu Nov 17 15:15:51 2016 No.16117735
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>>16117067
I understand completely. Out of all the things I experienced there, walking from Narita station to AEON mall was one of my favorites.

We decided to skip the shuttle and enjoy the brisk morning. I got a coffee from Mister Donut and we just strolled through the suburbs.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 17 15:17:59 2016 No.16117743 >>16117735 I tried to open this trash to throw my cup away but it was locked. It was so quiet, barely any cars. The air felt clean and the odd school kid ran by. There really is something peaceful about society there that I don't find elsewhere.

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>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 17 15:37:18 2016 No.16117807 >>16117735 I know. It's almost like a home feeling. When i goto teach english there, i hope to be put in a small town, and enjoy the residence

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>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 17 17:48:31 2016 No.16118301 >>16117067 >cozy >that housing density They are living like ants. You can probably hear your neighbors have sex. That sounds terrible.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 17 18:12:27 2016 No.16118392 >>16118301 I still find it cozy. Everyone is super quiet in Japan as well. At least when i went there they were.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 17 18:16:06 2016 No.16118402 >>16117067 >>16117735 >>16117789 >>16117901 Why do they have so many power lines? Shouldn't these things run underground?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 17 18:21:01 2016 No.16118418 >>16118402 >underground power line Eathquakes can really fuck those up, Anon

Anonymous Thu Nov 17 18:23:01 2016 No.16118429

>>16118301
The dense population means that it's quite easy and simple to get to places you want like a bookstore or a convenience store on foot or by bike. There's a lot of interesting building scenery due to the vertical construction.

It looks a lot more interesting than the shitty town I live in in the USA, where everything is built horizontally and spaced out, buildings rarely have more than one floor, and you have to drive a car to get fucking anywhere.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 17 18:24:29 2016 No.16118434 >>16118418 Won't an earthquake cause these ones to fall and crash into the houses? Earthquakes just fuck everything up

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 17 18:26:51 2016 No.16118441 You know that if you lived in Japan you'd just spend all day using the computer in your shitty two-and-a-half mat apartment anyway.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 17 18:27:54 2016 No.16118447 >>16118434 It's the recovery time. Overhead power lines are much quicker to be repaired than having to dig up a fuck ton of roads and streets.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 17 18:33:31 2016 No.16118469 >>16118447 I guess that's true Living for thousands of years on the ring of fire must make you very aware of earthquakes and how to live with them

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 17 18:48:58 2016 No.16118531 >>16118441 I prefer small spaces. Multiple of my friends have very small apartments in the Sapporo area and i love it!

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Anonymous Thu Nov 17 19:20:08 2016 No.16118631
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>>16117067
The urban areas seem too dense to me but I really like the look of small towns.

My dream is to some day open a bike shop in a small Japanese town in the countryside.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 17 19:26:28 2016 No.16118657 >>16118631 Bike shops profitable? Plan to have kids? Plan to travel? I wouldn't open up a shop since you can't really travel then. I would imagine me doing something like that when i am older to settle down in.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 17 19:29:52 2016 No.16118669 >>16118657 I don't really want to do any of those things. I just want to live in a quaint setting, work on bicycles, and play the piano.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 17 19:33:00 2016 No.16118676 >>16118669 So, just stuck in one spot forever? Don't wanna see anywhere else?

Anonymous Fri Nov 18 00:26:35 2016 No.16119811
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>>16118429
>>16118392
I need to try this out some day. I mean it sounds terrible to me because Americans are annoying shitheads in general, and living that close to them would be hell.

I don't know the Japanese very well. Maybe some day.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 18 10:05:07 2016 No.16122003 >>16119811 Yeah, us Americans are loud as shit. Even other Americans think Americans are loud. When i was there, in Sapporo, walking through the residential areas was so peaceful. Not a sound but a distant laugh or car driving by.

Anonymous Fri Nov 18 12:42:37 2016 No.16122750

>>16117067
It comes from Japan's topography. The country is made so that people have to use every part of it to its fullest, giving birth to communities where people had to live next to one another and therefore not disturb the others. Therefore, streets are narrow as fuck, houses tend to be rather small and built vertically, etc. It gives a feeling of promiscuity that you can hardly find anywhere else while still retaining the privacy aspect thanks to people being respectuous.

Been to Sapporo during winter season, and coming back to the warm guest house with a rather nice host after a full day of walking around in snow and negative temperature is the most comfy shit ever.

I enjoyed my stay in Sapporo (winter season) quite a bit more than my stay in Okinawa (summer season) despite being rather sensitive to cold.

Anonymous Fri Nov 18 12:53:34 2016 No.16122806

>>16122750
Can you specify how you found a host family in Japan? I went there on vacation but would love to go back by myself this year again, as someone being hosted by a host family.

If you could, could you kindly shed light on the process of getting a host family and how it works i.e: Cost, how you made the plans, etc.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 18 13:12:00 2016 No.16122898 >>16122806 Well, I didn't say "host family", I said "host" as in "the person who let me stay in exchange of money". I should have tried host family while I was there but I guess I was kinda disinterested at that time.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 18 13:21:44 2016 No.16122924 >>16122898 I see, sorry for the misunderstanding.

Anonymous Fri Nov 18 14:32:03 2016 No.16123189

>>16122003
>Not a sound but a distant laugh or car driving by

Literally the only place I have ever experienced anything like that is the middle of the desert here in America. And you say you experienced that in a densely populated area? I really want to go to Japan now.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 18 15:26:29 2016 No.16123425 >>16123189 Yes, extremely dense. It was amazing.

Anonymous Fri Nov 18 19:29:25 2016 No.16124450
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>>16117067
I know exactly how you feel bro.
I've been to Japan few times now, and each time I feel the best being in residential or rural areas. I have been to such remote places in Japan that its residents probably seen white people for the first time in their lives, and kids were like okasan, gaikokujin. Felt pretty good
Pic related. Chilling in the middle of nowhere. Photo GPS tagged

Another thing I love about these places is that people will sometimes approach you to find out more about you, what you do, where you from. One guy invited us over to his place, gave green tea, fresh vegetables from his garden, and he didn't even speak good English. I can't even describe how nice it was.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 18 20:01:22 2016 No.16124579 File: 460 KB, 1600x1200, 1460566183079.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16124450 >tfw half spic half chink so I wouldn't even stand out >>16118441 you're probably right

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 00:27:20 2016 No.16125418 File: 2.30 MB, 3418x2279, IMG_4900.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Stayed in Fujimidai, Tokyo, 2 years ago.

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Anonymous Sat Nov 19 15:18:14 2016 No.16128322

>>16123189

That was the most astounding thing in Aoyama. I went up a side street and if I looked back, I could see the cars and crowds on the sidewalk. But I couldn't hear a thing.

Japan isn't magic and it was obviously something to do with the acoustics but still, it was amazing.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 16:11:54 2016 No.16128559 File: 2.01 MB, 1500x1200, gondola.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16124579

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 16:31:33 2016 No.16128639 >>16117789 The parking spot is probably bigger than the apartment itself.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 19:29:09 2016 No.16129509 >>16118676 Some people like the simple life anon.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 19:30:12 2016 No.16129514 >>16122750 >feeling of promiscuity What did he mean by this?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 19:36:18 2016 No.16129542 >>16124579 where is this pic from - it's a pretty cool shot

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 19:40:35 2016 No.16129566 >>16118556 I know this is probably a stupid question, but is that in Kyoto by chance? Looks really familiar...

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 19:43:29 2016 No.16129580 >>16124450 Must be nice being a richfag huh ?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 20:39:33 2016 No.16129823 >>16117067 can we get some shots of residential interiors?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 20:42:10 2016 No.16129833 >>16118429 >you have to drive a car to get fucking anywhere So much this. Can't even go to mail building without a car. There's only one tiny road that way with high traffic and no bike road of course. No public transport too. Disgusting.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 20:44:35 2016 No.16129845 >>16129580 I'm not. I'm a student, and in the past 4 years I have been working for total of maybe 12 months. I call it good money management, not being rich.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 21:19:44 2016 No.16129993 File: 241 KB, 1100x733, 1456184016499_orig.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16124579 That's fucking beautiful.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 19 21:58:27 2016 No.16130164 >>16118441 That's about what I do here. If I lived there, it would at least cut down on shipping costs.

Anonymous Sun Nov 20 06:49:50 2016 No.16131988
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>>16129993
LED lights are common in Japan.
Interesting thing about them, if you look at night at the sky while being in an area lit with LED lights, the sky appears dark blue.
Pic unrelated but OC

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 20 09:35:13 2016 No.16132520 >>16128559 This is great.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 20 10:24:41 2016 No.16132731 File: 60 KB, 1408x533, Untitled.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] debito kun feels only hatred debito kun... zettai!!

Anonymous Sun Nov 20 10:54:35 2016 No.16132856
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>>16132731
>in the single most xenophobic developed country in the world as a minority
>complain that they look out for themselves before appeasing your group
I swear, people like these are the same cunts that are getting Germany flooded with a million african muslims. They destroy the host of wherever they go.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 20 11:27:12 2016 No.16132967 >>16132731 This guy runs a pretty decent blog to counter idiots like this. http://www.turning-japanese.info/

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 20 11:45:08 2016 No.16133064 >>16132967 He also posts on Reddit too, so you can counter-cocksuck him against Debito's cocksuckers there.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 04:58:39 2016 No.16137204 >>16118301 >You can probably hear your neighbors have sex. That's what love hotels are for.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 05:00:56 2016 No.16137215 >>16118441 As someone living in Japan, this is true, mostly. I also go to the arcade.

Anonymous Mon Nov 21 05:03:53 2016 No.16137223
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In Fukushima there are a lot of small vege fields and the occasional rice field scattered among the
housing.
The produce is often sold at nearby vending machines too. It's how I get my rice.

Anonymous Mon Nov 21 05:08:02 2016 No.16137234
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North of Kyoto there is a really nice quiet residential area. Heard from a local gaijin that for people who move to Kyoto to work they can't really get a house in Kyoto itself because the neighborhood are so set that it is difficult to move into a neighborhood unless you have relations in it, so they live in the surrounding towns instead.

And that's not just gaijin.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 05:08:47 2016 No.16137236 File: 1.24 MB, 1600x1060, DSC_5834.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] And a couple of typical Japanese two lane roads.

Anonymous Mon Nov 21 08:06:58 2016 No.16137693

>>16137215
Me too, at least ever since I moved from a share house to apartment. But I started taking walks around the neighborhood at night sometimes, no music or anything, sometimes buying coffee at vending machines. It's easy to forget why you came here in the first place.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 08:16:40 2016 No.16137715 >>16132856 Fuck I know it can feel tough sometimes to always be treated differently in Japan but I never once felt any dislike or hatred coming my way.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 08:43:47 2016 No.16137809 What's crime like in these comfy looking cities and towns? Is it just a meme that no one commits crime or does it actually happen and it's just kept hush hush by everyone?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 13:23:22 2016 No.16138778 >>16129833 I know how you feel. I live in rural Michigan.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 13:25:52 2016 No.16138787 >>16137215 English teacher?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 13:44:56 2016 No.16138839 >>16132967 >>16132731 I thought that was just a username until I Googled it on a whim. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debito_Arudou

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 13:45:59 2016 No.16138845 >>16138839 Oops meant to quote >>16133064

Anonymous Mon Nov 21 14:20:02 2016 No.16138978

>>16138839
>relinquishing his US citizenship in 2002.[15] On becoming Japanese, he changed his name to Arudoudebito Sugawara (菅原有道出人 Sugawara Arudōdebito?), taking his wife's surname.[7] They divorced in 2006.[16]
hahahaha
>move to another nation
>marry one of it's people
>change name
>abandon old citizenship like a faggot
>gets triggered that they still don't accept him
>wife leaves him
fucking rekt

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 21 14:20:50 2016 No.16138983 These photos kind of remind me of rural Italy, just replace the cherry trees with olives and the oriental style roofs with slate ones and it's pretty spot-on

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 22 02:22:24 2016 No.16142238 >>16138983 I've been to both places, the other distinction is "replace vineyards with rice fields / tall grass".

Anonymous Tue Nov 22 04:53:51 2016 No.16142642

>>16131988
>>16129993
>In restoring an old house, it goes without saying that fluorescent lighting should be shunned, but this is not yet so obvious to the Japanese. The older generation, who grew up in traditional gloom, wanted only to escape from all those shadows, so they greeted the advent of fluorescent lighting with joy. The younger generation knows little else. In the West, people typically reserve fluorescent lights for kitchens, workspaces and offices, while the use of incandescent lamps, ceiling lights and spotlights for living and dining rooms is so standard as to be taken for granted. So visitors to Japan are unprepared for the complete and utter victory of fluorescent lighting, whose flat bluish glare has penetrated homes, museums, hotels, everywhere. Recently I spoke to a group of students of interior design and asked them how many had thought about illumination and done something to decrease the fluorescent lighting in their homes. Of forty students, there was only one.

Alex Kerr, Lost Japan (1996; published with a new preface 2015)

Source text is a little dated, but hope that offers some perspective.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 23 11:16:01 2016 No.16148772 >>16142238 Guess it must be because the geography is pretty similar

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 23 22:23:56 2016 No.16151754 >>16148772 I thought I was the only who noticed similarities between Italy/Greece and Japan.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 00:37:29 2016 No.16152256 File: 1.65 MB, 544x686, AKANE IS LITERALLY TOO MOE.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16117067 >>16117807 >tfw I leave in a week to teach English in Hakodate I explored it on google maps and it's pretty cozy.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 06:42:04 2016 No.16153470 File: 95 KB, 431x551, 1419055343709.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16152256 >Hakodate >Everyone's moving to Japan to teach English >tfw not a native English speaker M-maybe someone wants to learn Polish there...

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 07:10:33 2016 No.16153564 >>16117067 >that cable management

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 07:17:49 2016 No.16153591 File: 3.07 MB, 2543x3840, 8239 - Kusanagi Eki.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16153564 >Not loving Japan's street cabling.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 08:49:33 2016 No.16153921 >>16153470 A girl from Tokyo who I met as an exchange student said she studied Polish at her university so you never know. ジン　ドブリー！

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 09:20:17 2016 No.16154102 >>16153470 You got a college degree? Some places aren't picky regarding your native language so if you can speak as well as you type it give it a shot.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 09:22:18 2016 No.16154110 >>16153921 you misunderstood; she was studying polish

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 10:31:06 2016 No.16154503 >>16154102 Well about to graduate from British Uni. >>16153921 nice.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 10:40:52 2016 No.16154552 >>16154503 Why do poles love Britain so much.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 10:42:40 2016 No.16154562 >>16154552 Easy to migrate to, very good standard of living, plenty of work, super easy language, not far away, and so on...

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 10:47:02 2016 No.16154587 >>16154552 Because then they don't have to live in their shitty rubble shacks. They can steal the jobs and live nice while brits don't get the jobs.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 10:48:06 2016 No.16154590 >>16154587 How can we steal jobs that no one else wanted to do?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 10:56:03 2016 No.16154625 >>16154503 >British University Shouldn't have a problem getting a job at all. Some companies are sticklers about having an English Primary education but graduating from a British university should mitigate that for most people.

Anonymous Thu Nov 24 10:56:58 2016 No.16154632

>>16154587
Tbh I wouldn't really mind them coming here but there's 3 things about it that make me hold contempt for them.

They come here in huge numbers, and a lot of those are just for welfare or crime opportunities.
They live in practically segregated communities and are essentially forming mini-poland in the middle of my city.
Their cultural mindset seems to make them arrogant cunts for some reason, they have no couresty.
and that's not even getting into them sending wealth out of the nation and shit.

I imagine there's a fair few who don't do any of the above, but god damn there is a lot who do at least two at once.

That said, I'll take them over pakis any day of the week.

>>16154590
>jobs that no one else wanted to do
This is a meme that does so much damage to the west. It's comparable to >we need to import a million niggers so that they will pay for our pensions :^)

Anonymous Thu Nov 24 11:02:48 2016 No.16154662

>>16154632
We can argue about it all, but I will just reply for your first point. Have a look into statistics released last year or so. We're paying more into the pot in taxes than taking out of it.
https://www.ft.com/content/c49043a8-6447-11e4-b219-00144feabdc0
Anyway, this is Japan thread, let's keep it that way.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 11:04:07 2016 No.16154668 >>16154590 >"How can we steal jobs that no one else wanted to do?" That's a meme as >>16154632 stated. Also, sending wealth out of the country... Polish people in GB are like the niggs in America.

Anonymous Thu Nov 24 11:09:01 2016 No.16154696
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>>16154662
>paywall link

>Anyway, this is Japan thread, let's keep it that way.
You're quite right.

>>16154668
>Polish people in GB are like the niggs in America.
Nah, they're not that bad. I don't care about the Polish too much, they're a distraction. Muslims are whats really ruining this country.
But that's a story for /pol/.
Lets just enjoy nip suburbs for now.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 11:11:58 2016 No.16154706 >>16154696 >paywall Strange, first time I opened it it wasn't a paywall. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/11/04/uk-immigration-_n_4212431.html Here is an alternative article.

Anonymous Thu Nov 24 11:21:41 2016 No.16154749

Personally, I grew up before internets and such but I was always interested about oriental philosophy etc and just kept reading books at the library. But when I first saw and played Shenmue I realized I had familiar connection with the surrounding small urban area, I thought 'this feels like a home'. Which is a strange thought all of a sudden.

Now looking at these pictures they bring sense of serenity and quietness. I sometimes go to google maps to walk in Japanese cities.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 11:26:28 2016 No.16154770 File: 98 KB, 800x600, Nagoya.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16154706 I wrote a long post but remembered this isn't really the place. TLDR demographic changes are what worry me

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 11:47:28 2016 No.16154882 Japan has to keep foreigners out that aren't tourists or these cities won't be quiet no more.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 11:53:30 2016 No.16154913 >>16154882 So everyone in this thread?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 13:42:48 2016 No.16155387 >>16138839 What a terrible person. Just the thought of coming into someone's house and telling them how to live is alien to me. No respect and or politeness.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 14:14:44 2016 No.16155540 >>16154913 Not if you turn Japaneasy

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 14:26:39 2016 No.16155585 Any person who hasn't already sat Japanese-style/cross-legged around a low table at night drinking and eating stuff while speaking with Japanese people in Japanese doesn't understand the true meaning of "comfy". Japanese people are so awesome.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 14:36:46 2016 No.16155616 >>16118301 lol at japanese people having sex No but really they have a pressing societal issue they need to address and I hope they make it through cause it would be a shame to see their culture die.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 14:38:23 2016 No.16155621 Anyone have pictures of like, shitty parts of Japan? All of these looks like well off residential areas. Where's the grimy stuff?

Anonymous Thu Nov 24 14:46:45 2016 No.16155652
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>>16155621
I spent like 2.5 months total in Japan, travelling all around and visiting small cities that probably have never seen a tourist before, and I can't really think of anything.
Some part of Osaka I have once been to felt pretty ghetto, but I can't remember exactly where it was.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 14:51:22 2016 No.16155661 File: 798 KB, 2064x1548, 20160630_215653_Richtone(HDR).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16155621 I'm from Slav country but even here I haven't seen as much shameful display on Friday evenings. pics from Tokyo

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>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 14:52:59 2016 No.16155667 >>16155621 >>16155661 I'm a slav as well. Good catch, I completely forgot about jap office workers being dead drunk after 2 beers.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 14:54:02 2016 No.16155673 >>16155621 >Where's the grimy stuff? They don't use credit credit cards, and when they do... wait for it... you have to sign a receipt as if it was 1990 again.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 14:54:29 2016 No.16155677 File: 576 KB, 1548x2064, 20160619_193454.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16155665 Obviously not every White is an English teacher

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 14:54:43 2016 No.16155679 File: 217 KB, 1000x694, 1432297360532-3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16155585 My dream is to share a kotatsu with a cute girl during a snowfall. >tfw probably never gonna happen

Anonymous Thu Nov 24 15:09:46 2016 No.16155754
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>>16155679

Don't give up Anon.

>Studying Japanese at University
>Meet cute exchange student tutor
>Tutoring becomes dating
>Dating becomes serious dating
>Go to Japan in December to be introduced to family
>Christmas comes
>Under a kotatsu with fiance
>Eating KFC Christmas bucket we reserved in advance
>Watching my favorite Christmas movie and drinking

It was the comfiest Christmas ever.

>pic related

>

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 15:13:10 2016 No.16155774 File: 99 KB, 723x691, ixomonz.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16155754 You're living the dream anon.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 15:34:18 2016 No.16155877 >>16155661 Is he dead

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 15:36:35 2016 No.16155889 >>16155877 he probably drank 2 asashi

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 15:36:45 2016 No.16155892 File: 785 KB, 2064x1548, 20160904_230321_LLS.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16155877 Nah, just wasted

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 15:36:57 2016 No.16155894 >>16117067 Can any of you comfy senpaitachi help me out? I've been trying to find out the romaji and kanji for 'path of the lone wolf' for ages now 経路の匹狼 keiro no ookami kodoku is that close to being right? im too much of a shitter at japanese

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 15:38:29 2016 No.16155900 >>16155892 a-are you sure he wasn't dead? did you check?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 15:38:36 2016 No.16155902 File: 177 KB, 1024x1024, yes i understand.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16155894

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 15:39:36 2016 No.16155908 >>16155900 His chest was making breathing movements. Also he reeked of beer, not death

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 15:42:38 2016 No.16155920 >>16155894 孤独な狼の道

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 15:44:32 2016 No.16155926 >>16137223 are you not scared of becoming a mutant?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 15:54:40 2016 No.16155960 >>16155920 lonely wolf road ? I guess that works was my romaji right then?

Anonymous Thu Nov 24 15:58:22 2016 No.16155970

>>16155754
Are you me, anon?
>got to Japan
>meet adorable Japanese girl
>not so attracted at first but I start getting more and more attached to her as we see each other
>meet parents twice, spend days with the family who's absolutely great
>dating
>study and eat together in winter under the kotatsu
>she's now with me in my home country as exchange student
>we are still together after more than 9 months and I absolutely do not intend to let go of her

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 16:40:01 2016 No.16156093 >>16155970 pic?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 16:43:23 2016 No.16156102 File: 1.60 MB, 3264x1836, IMG_20160115_130243.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16156093

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 16:52:39 2016 No.16156129 >>16124579 Pretty sure Infected WIXOSS used this in a scene.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 16:56:36 2016 No.16156156 >>16155970 He's clearly not you because he met his Japanese gf in notJapan.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 20:02:36 2016 No.16156899 >>16124579 Really reminds me of the place where Nagato rewrites the universe in Disappearance of Haruhi.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 20:38:37 2016 No.16157002 File: 66 KB, 751x421, Untitled.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16156899 I thought that same thing when I saw it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 20:40:18 2016 No.16157010 >>16156899 >>16157002 Oh, it's got the same school sign. Guess it's the actual location.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 20:41:11 2016 No.16157014 >>16152256 good luck, and have a great time bro! and make sure you take shitloads of pics for us.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 20:48:56 2016 No.16157047 >>16118469 The 8.0-9.0 earthquakes of japan would literally destroy entire cities of the US or Europe, we would see thousands of collapsed buildings and tens of thousands of deaths, so we shouldn't be quick to judge their city planning.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 21:05:43 2016 No.16157098 i wish these threads would die. It's just fucking blogshit.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 21:06:52 2016 No.16157103 >>16157098 Yeah, lets replace it with the 58 millionth touhou thread.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 21:14:52 2016 No.16157125 >>16155754 I envy you so bad

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 24 21:29:39 2016 No.16157172 >>16157098 Fuck off, edgemaster. This is a take-it-easy thread.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 02:22:21 2016 No.16158078 >>16157002 Wow, that road is ridiculously steep.

Anonymous Fri Nov 25 02:25:24 2016 No.16158086

>>16157047
Somewhat true, but most of those earthquakes are centered around the plate boundaries which are off shore.
In most areas the 9.0 quake registered a 5+ or 6- on the shindo scale max, which should only damage "earthquake prone" buildings.

Countries that aren't at risk of earthquakes don't build to the same standards as other countries though, so you're right, but if they were at risk they would be building to those standards so it would pretty much be the same.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 02:43:20 2016 No.16158133 >>16157098 I'm frustrated they're living my dream, too.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 03:20:49 2016 No.16158213 File: 1015 KB, 1600x1060, DSC_5826.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16155621 Grimy enough for you?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 03:28:14 2016 No.16158234 >>16156102 your gf is a laptop?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 04:29:27 2016 No.16158415 I always get jealous seeing these pictures. It looks so comfy, even urban America sucks in comparison. I can't justify to myself going there though, I'm making money hand over fist here and the corporate culture in Japan is the worst.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 04:29:58 2016 No.16158417 >>16158415 >I'm making money hand over fist here and the corporate culture in Japan is the worst. Sounds like you need a vacation.

Anonymous Fri Nov 25 04:32:13 2016 No.16158428

>>16158417
I'm just a software engineer living outside the rent hell that is silicon valley. Still get the nice pay, free food and laid back workplace perks.

Would be nice to take a vacation there though. How do you plan a trip like this? I feel like if I just went I'd just wander around aimlessly for a day and then lock myself in my room again.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 04:34:36 2016 No.16158440 File: 781 KB, 1600x1067, _RIP8852.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Some nearby houses that aren't the least bit well off looking.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 04:35:26 2016 No.16158443 >>16158428 >I feel like if I just went I'd just wander around aimlessly for a day and then lock myself in my room again. Yeah, that's basically it. Then the next day you do it all again.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 04:36:08 2016 No.16158446 File: 878 KB, 1600x1067, _RIP8853.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 04:36:42 2016 No.16158447 File: 921 KB, 1600x1067, _RIP8854.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Anonymous Fri Nov 25 04:41:51 2016 No.16158465

>>16158447
>>16158446
These look a bit messy/lazy, but not too bad.
>>16158440
This one kinda gives me the creeps. Reminds me of the house of that abuser mom in BokuMachi. I think it's the crooked windows.

>>16158443
I've been living in my current city for over a year and I barely know anything outside my neighborhood. I'm terrible at this whole thing.

Anonymous Fri Nov 25 04:51:07 2016 No.16158491
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>>16158465
On my first two trips to Japan I went with a like minded friend and aside from having a few things we had to do we just had some ideas of places we wanted to go and then took whatever train would take us closest and walked the rest of the way.

It meant we ended up walking 25-30km a bunch of days but we saw a lot of comfy shit.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 08:01:59 2016 No.16158974 >>16158428 Fellow Software Engineer, i know how you feel (But i'm living on the hell that is the east coast). Yeah, wandering around is literally it. It's so peaceful you really come home with a different peace of mind.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 09:48:39 2016 No.16159310 >>16158213 Just needs a power wash.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 10:02:33 2016 No.16159381 >>16159310 The vines are inside the house.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 12:16:31 2016 No.16160099 >>16124450 thats sounds creepy

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 13:09:47 2016 No.16160274 >>16157098 we need to nuke japan again, just to stick it to these weebs

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 16:51:18 2016 No.16161385 >>16158213 looks like something out of a junji ito comic/manga

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 25 22:43:37 2016 No.16162947 >>16158213 its so white trash, but in japan. god i really want to live there now.

Anonymous Sat Nov 26 00:02:33 2016 No.16163252

>>16158078
having lived in Chicago my whole life I found it surprising how steep roads get in many places though when I started visiting new cities. Chicago is as flat as it gets

I'm sure there's steep roads everywhere in Japan with how mountainous it is

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 26 05:49:24 2016 No.16164474 >>16163252 There are steep roads but not that steep. Look about 40 feet past Nagato at the angle those bases for houses are coming out. It's like nearly 45 degrees.

Anonymous Sat Nov 26 06:08:41 2016 No.16164523

>>16124450

Maybe it's because I live in my country's equivalent of Akita / Aomori / sticks, but I really really enjoyed the convenience of spending time in the smack middle of Tokyo and Kyoto. It's all a matter of perspective, I would pay gold to live in a megalopolis' residential area and not having to drive an hour for some shampoo.

Anonymous Sat Nov 26 09:24:33 2016 No.16165023

>>16124450
That sounds pretty cool actually. I'd heard that the country bumpkins were the ones that were actually more racist of the population, but perhaps not?

Also, perhaps you ran into a westaboo of sorts. kek

>invites foreigner stranger into his home
>gives green tea and garden vegetables
>can't speak good english

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 26 09:37:33 2016 No.16165051 >>16165023 I just don't think it is a good idea to generalize about the Japanese people based off a few bad stories you hear online. I have had zero bad experiences in the seven and a half months I have been here so far.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 26 13:00:03 2016 No.16165802 File: 677 KB, 600x338, 1306509629025.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16124579 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLnxO75bO3E

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 26 13:39:00 2016 No.16165949 >>16137809 From what I've heard there are very few bad parts of Japan, but if you're heading somewhere bad, people will usually tell you not to go there.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 26 13:51:16 2016 No.16165991 >>16138839 >human right activism eheheh >born in california sides stauts : gone

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 26 16:01:43 2016 No.16166477 >>16137223 Good hunting, stalker.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 04:07:47 2016 No.16169125 >>16164474 those aren't house bases anon, not sure what they are but they're also here >>16124579

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 16:09:08 2016 No.16171926 >>16118631 sounds like the life anon

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 16:20:24 2016 No.16171977 File: 1.98 MB, 3264x2448, 1456955509907.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16155754 You son of a bitch ;_;

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 16:22:10 2016 No.16171991 File: 586 KB, 1920x1440, shinjuku.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16159381 power wash the inside

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 16:30:37 2016 No.16172037 >>16118676 whats wrong with that anon?

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 17:38:22 2016 No.16172346 Every time I see pictures of urban Japan I always think "This looks like the 90s". Must be the boxy cars and concrete buildings.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 18:00:30 2016 No.16172416 >>16172346 It's probably because Japan was big in the 90s and it was pushed everywhere, and there were Tokyo-like scenes and "kanji" billboards all the time.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 18:41:49 2016 No.16172594 What would all you guys do if every one of you who wanted to move to Japan was able to do it, as well as everyone else who wanted to did, and you ended up in a city entirely full of non-Japanese people? Would you still enjoy just being in Japan?

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 18:50:25 2016 No.16172634 >>16172594 i would do like debito-sama but turning to the other side of social autism

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 19:07:38 2016 No.16172703 >>16155892 Unless it's Shibuya.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 28 02:34:14 2016 No.16174226 >>16155970 >being with 3DPD

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 28 02:41:36 2016 No.16174241 >>16165051 Just remember not to discriminate against burakumin. Or ryukyuans and ainu, too.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 28 02:59:33 2016 No.16174289 >>16117067 weeaboo

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 28 03:26:52 2016 No.16174350 >>16155661 >>16155665 >>16155677 >>16155892 >he asks for the shitty parts of tokyo >post places that are cleaner than even the cleanest area in an America city REALLY makes you think

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 28 04:14:01 2016 No.16174489 >>16155673 holy shit

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 28 04:59:47 2016 No.16174619 >>16174350 I've seen lots of trash at times outside Akihabara Station. Japan cities are just really clean in the morning, after they've been through to clean everything up.

Anonymous Mon Nov 28 05:12:48 2016 No.16174649
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>>16117067
For me it would be so surreal. I have seen these settings so much in only video games that to see tgem in real life would probably make me goosebump or well up or some gay shit like that.

Why do people like us think the Japanese and their ways of doing things (even their urban residences) are so beautiful? And yet, we know the young in Japan are actually quite a sad bunch... Depressed even, about their lives.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 28 07:10:18 2016 No.16174966 >>16174619 I've been to many places all over Japan and Akihabara was by far the dirtiest. No other place comes close to the amount of trash you'll see there.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 28 08:42:43 2016 No.16175215 >>16155673 >you have to sign a receipt as if it was 1990 again Isn't that just present-time USA?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 01:12:14 2016 No.16178452 To the few on /jp/ who live in Japan, what do you work as?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 01:24:54 2016 No.16178513 File: 243 KB, 640x360, 521168507.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Sometimes I feel that I am 見られています

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 01:58:38 2016 No.16178630 File: 352 KB, 1534x2048, 1480399323642.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] What did she mean by this?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 02:16:35 2016 No.16178690 >>16178452 Meme English teacher.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 02:21:19 2016 No.16178704 >>16178690 Do you plan on getting a better job?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 02:23:49 2016 No.16178715 >>16178704 Not in the forseeable future. I enjoy what I do and it pays enough, plus I don't really know of another job that I'd rather be doing.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 02:25:53 2016 No.16178720 >>16178715 I see. Are you planning on naturalizing?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 02:30:54 2016 No.16178737 >>16178720 No. I don't think of myself as a Japanese citizen and can't really imagine thinking if myself as such. I do plan on living out my life here, however.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 02:33:22 2016 No.16178744 >>16178737 >thinking if myself as of*

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 04:55:43 2016 No.16179074 >>16178452 Also memeing as an English teacher.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 05:09:02 2016 No.16179111 File: 6 KB, 298x169, dobuita.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 05:19:36 2016 No.16179154 >>16179111 Is this a photo for ants?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 09:10:48 2016 No.16180043 Japan give me a sense of peace which have no equals.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 10:06:28 2016 No.16180234 >>16123189 >>16118429 How can Americans complain about noise if they have so much spacing between the houses?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 11:05:05 2016 No.16180503 >>16172594 Yes, It would still be better than a third-world country.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 13:37:07 2016 No.16181063 >>16178715 How difficult was it to become a teacher?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 14:10:03 2016 No.16181225 >>16179111 Is this a photo from Shenmue?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 14:11:07 2016 No.16181233 >>16178513 when you see it..

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 14:25:54 2016 No.16181307 >>16181233 When you see it, you are not completely blind.

Anonymous Tue Nov 29 17:22:37 2016 No.16182055

>>16181063
Not too hard. I tried with a few companies and organizations, got rejected, kept trying, and landed a job. Just don't give up at the first rejection; there are plenty of companies out there and you can always build up experience on your resume.

Anonymous Tue Nov 29 17:42:43 2016 No.16182150
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>>16179111
Literally just started re-playing Shenmue yesterday -- it's probably what made me feel so at home looking at Japanese residential districts, but even just Japanese architecture in general. I spent so much time just playing Shenmue 1 as a kid and messing around with shit.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 17:45:35 2016 No.16182159 >>16117067 Could anyone put into words what is it that makes Japanese residential areas so amazing?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 18:04:44 2016 No.16182223 >>16182055 I'm a history major and I unironically want to find a job that isn't meme english teaching But that's not happening either.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 18:39:43 2016 No.16182364 >>16180234 According to /jp/ your average American breaks into their house playing rap music and ruining otaku culture or some shit.

Anonymous Tue Nov 29 21:36:06 2016 No.16183190

>>16182159
It's hard to describe really. Coming from my average small American city it's just a much nicer vibe. Walking from the house I was staying in was my favorite parts of visiting Japan. Shame I was only there for a month. You just need to visit Japan anon.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 23:04:16 2016 No.16183601 >>16124450 Where is this? Cant seem to get the GPS info. Max comfy desu

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 29 23:33:33 2016 No.16183748 >>16183601 You tried to find the GPS info but you didn't read the filename?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 30 01:19:31 2016 No.16184158 File: 3.17 MB, 4000x2992, IMG_20161122_064725.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Yamaguchi prefecture.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 30 01:41:30 2016 No.16184238 >>16155754 Don't let this happiness go, Anon. I'd still kill and try to replace you if I had the chance.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 30 02:29:18 2016 No.16184457 >>16182150 Man there's something about mundane places in Japan that I love in video games.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 30 03:03:31 2016 No.16184580 >>16182223 >unironically calling it meme English teaching Don't let the fagiolas discourage you. Do what you want to do, not what you think others want you to do.

Anonymous Wed Nov 30 03:31:05 2016 No.16184663

>>16184580

I think the point anons are making is that if there were alternative (decent) jobs in Japan that they could get into, they'd rather do those instead.

Shouldn't stop one from being the best damned English teacher one could possibly be, though.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 30 05:23:46 2016 No.16184934 >>16178737 If you plan to live there forever, you may as well get Japanese citizenship so you can revoke your current citizenship.

Anonymous Wed Nov 30 05:55:15 2016 No.16185019

>>16184663
Especially as being an English teacher is a pretty easy entry into the country, and from there it is easier to get a different job and extend your visa than it probably would be to find a company willing to sponsor your visa for the work you want to do.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 30 05:58:03 2016 No.16185020 >>16184934 I feel like changing one's citizenship ought to be given more thought than "may as well".

Anonymous Wed Nov 30 10:29:13 2016 No.16185788

>>16178452
Work as an English teacher. I am currently working in a nonpublic school. Get paid well, have 3 weeks vacation, good little area. The only bad thing is i fucking hate Tokyo. Seriously.

Tokyo is fucking hell, if you can get somewhere else go for it. Ideally i want to be working in the Hokkaido area.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 30 10:30:44 2016 No.16185792 >>16180234 We are loud.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 30 11:35:52 2016 No.16186053 File: 93 KB, 576x594, aoi scared.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16185788 >tfw I am getting on a plane to Hakodate in less than 12 hours Wish me luck, my fellow fucking autists.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 30 11:39:13 2016 No.16186070 >>16186053 I wish i was in your position. What type of job is it? Like what company is sponsoring you? Public or nonpublic school?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 30 11:40:49 2016 No.16186082 >>16186053 Get of the computer and spend some time in your home town and with your family. Last time i was home was 5 years ago. You will miss it, make sure you go out with fond memories.

Anonymous Wed Nov 30 13:16:38 2016 No.16186537

>>16186070

Its an Eikawa job, so pretty basic stuff. Apparently they just opened a branch there so I got lucky otherwise I would have ended up in Kanto or somewhere around there.

>>16186082

Yeah, I'm about to go out with them now, I was just taking a break from packing on /jp/

>5 years

Jeez, that's scary. Do they come and visit you at least?

Anonymous Wed Nov 30 14:09:34 2016 No.16186742

>>16186537
Mother came and visited me last year, but the 3 weeks vacation i get is spread out. Like i said, i get paid really well here, but i hate living in Tokyo. Speaking of breaks, this is the 1 week break that i am on as of now.

I would much prefer getting a bit of a lower wage and a more stable vacation time and not live in fucking Tokyo. DO NOT LIVE IN TOKYO. I'll be going to sleep soon, so if you have any other questions i'll answer them probably tomorrow.

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>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 30 14:30:30 2016 No.16186846 File: 1.09 MB, 1920x920, 19522215858_b1a2756c05_o.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] https://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisjongkind/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/megane_wakui/

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 30 14:51:02 2016 No.16186921 >>16158446 That Tanuki at the entrance... Like a Pink Flamingo in America or Snowwhite and the 7 dwarves in Europe.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 30 15:24:35 2016 No.16187075 >>16155616 They are one of the only societies ready for automation. Less people will be a good thing.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 30 15:28:35 2016 No.16187092 I'm terrified that when I eventually visit I will be too overwhelmed and too preoccupied with not letting my time go to waste that I'll waste the whole trip. Maybe if I stay a couple months I won't feel so pressured?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 30 15:28:44 2016 No.16187093 >>16187075 >Less people will be a good thing This. I think they are going to make it harder to migrate there if they succeed in automation. Something good for them.

Anonymous Wed Nov 30 15:35:08 2016 No.16187128

>>16187092
Just return several times. It took me a while between the moment I wanted to go and the moment I went. Now I'm there every 6 to 9 months for 2~3 weeks and it doesn't feel as overwhelming as my first trips where I wanted to do everything.

It's also nice to see things changing as the time move on. Something you don't get to experience if you just do a single 3 months trip.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 30 18:40:35 2016 No.16187791 >>16186742 Care to explain the hate hard-on for tokyo?

Anonymous Wed Nov 30 19:14:09 2016 No.16187936

>>16187791
Too crowded. When i lived in Sapporo it was perfect sized. Still a city, less people.

Suicides ALL THE FUCKING TIME. It's about 4 times a month that i get a delay from a suicide. Not to mention sometimes i am on the train when it happens sometimes which is scary.... The feeling you get when someone just died is very scary and real.

Depressing. There is nothing more depressing than seeing middle aged men passed out in the station from working a 16 hour shift. You can see they're all depressed. You can see how stressed out they are. Normally when i come home (around 9pm) there are salary men that ARE JUST GETTING OFF OF WORK. I start work at 2pm, they start work at probably 7am... Some even earlier, i see some going to work at 6am, or even 5am when i go for my runs on my days off.

IT'S FUCKING LOUD. Seriously, i made a mistake by living on the main road, lucky i am in a quieter area but it's still loud.

The one plus is that everything is really close and easy to get to. When i wanna run down to the arcade i can in like 15mins. Wanna goto a store? 5min walk.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 1 05:05:42 2016 No.16189730 >>16187936 Suicide is not inherently bad, and your use of all-caps and ellipses makes me think you may not belong in /jp/. Dying is nothing to be afraid of.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 1 05:29:16 2016 No.16189827 >>16189730 Maybe not. But when it causes a nuisance to others (like delaying a train because others have to take care your remains) it is bad no matter how you look at it.

Anonymous Thu Dec 1 05:57:21 2016 No.16189938

>>16186742
What Eikawa companies are the better ones in your opinion? Google has pages and pages of workers shitting on basically every one of them. I was thinking Interac looked alright, but the pay is so much lower than the others, especially compared to JET.

Anonymous Thu Dec 1 07:35:47 2016 No.16190279

>>16189938

Really you just need to make sure to do your research. A lot of them are shitty, but most aren't that bad.

Typically they pay more than something such as Interac that takes a shit ton of fucking money from you in the summer (From what i am told)

My job is really nice, and i love it more than public school. However i will be looking for work in Sapporo soon once this contract is up.

Just make sure you look at reviews before you go for an Eikawa. I've ended up in a hell hole before and have horror stories if anyone wants to hear.

Anonymous Thu Dec 1 07:36:59 2016 No.16190287

>>16189730
Suicide is bad. You don't know the errie feeling until someone has just jumped infront of the train you are on, and you hear their body slam against the train.

You will never ever understand until it has happened to you. And once you hear the sound and know what happened you won't forget it. I for sure cannot forget.

Anonymous Thu Dec 1 09:28:50 2016 No.16190731

>>16190287
Had that happening three times in my life, one was in Tokyo (Nakano sta., Chuo Rapid (I read in the news later on it was an accident, but everyone assumed suicide at the time)) and while it's something you remember it's not as bad you make it sounds really.

Obviously you don't forget those days, the time it was, with who you were, where you were headed to, but it's not like it haunt you forever or something.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 1 09:57:28 2016 No.16190830 >>16190731 >but it's not like it haunt you forever or something. Of course not. However for the rest of the day i get really sad and depressed. Knowing someone just died is terrible for me at least. Maybe i am just a softie but it really gets to me.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 1 11:13:19 2016 No.16191246 >>16119811 >>16122003 >Americans >Any noise except the biweekly morning lawnmower battles You must live in a "multicultural" neighborhood.

Anonymous Thu Dec 1 11:26:23 2016 No.16191332

>>16191246
It's not quite fair to compare your suburban town to a city of 2 million people like Sapporo. Comparison to a place like Cleveland which has a similar population density would be more appropriate and it's noticeably louder in downtown Cleveland.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 1 12:33:30 2016 No.16191712 >>16190731 >I read in the news later on it was an accident, but everyone assumed suicide at the time This sounds even worse than a suicide.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 1 14:31:00 2016 No.16192188 >>16190279 Mind sharing a few?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 1 15:44:17 2016 No.16192463 Any NEETs in here that got a qt Japanese girlfriend after moving to Japan?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 1 15:56:22 2016 No.16192509 >>16192463 Have girlfriend. Is Japanese. AMA

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 1 17:03:11 2016 No.16192707 >>16192463 You can't really immigrate to Japan and be NEET - visas and all that business. But I do have a qt Japanese husbando.

Anonymous Thu Dec 1 17:23:41 2016 No.16192790
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This thread isn't negative enough.
Let me blog my story

>Study Japanese at Uni
>Get gov scholarship for one year study abroad
>Have time of life
>Meet Jap QT
>Generally high hopes for life
>Go back to home uni to finish last year of school
>Job hunt for a year
>Little success
>GF stops contacting me
>Breaks up with me over letter because my job search was "not serious enough"
>Finally get good job
>Dad dies
> go back to USA to support rest of family
>No jobs for me in local area
>Half year unemployment
>Now working at an Asian grocery store
>Talk to Japanese customers sometimes
>They all look down on me

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 1 17:30:33 2016 No.16192823 >>16192509 How? I want to travel to Japan and marry a Japanese girl so that I may stay there without teaching English.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 1 18:20:16 2016 No.16193046 File: 48 KB, 396x353, 1465748744242.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16192790

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 1 18:32:34 2016 No.16193101 >>16192463 Had one, she cheated on me with such an intensity she would have made a Jersey Shore chick blush in embarrassment. The submissive asina qt is a legend.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 1 18:48:02 2016 No.16193154 >>16192790 You have a degree, goto Japan and teach!

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 1 18:50:02 2016 No.16193167 >>16192823 Wen't to teach English, met someone, dated her. Simple.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 1 19:13:27 2016 No.16193266 >>16192707 My bad, I meant like people who'd do what >>16118441 said. Not necessarily unemployed but the same general lifestyle.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 1 19:45:37 2016 No.16193350 >>16193154 >teach! are low paying positions with low job security really that viable?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 1 20:03:06 2016 No.16193395 >>16193350 The pay is absolutely fine for single people and job security is pretty fine as long as you don't gaijin smash things. Seriously, you gotta go out of your way to get fired

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 1 20:05:26 2016 No.16193403 >>16192707 are you a twink?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 1 20:17:25 2016 No.16193423 >>16193350 Work at an eikaiwa making +500k yen a month... That is not bad at all.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 1 22:27:32 2016 No.16193907 >>16193403 You mean a feminine gay man? No.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 2 02:08:37 2016 No.16194591 >>16193423 What company? That seems really good from what Ive been reading online. Or do you do a shitload of overtime?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 2 05:10:26 2016 No.16195065 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eikaiwa_school >bankruptcy >salaries for eikawa teachers have generally fallen >sued twice by its employees >contracts were abruptly cancelled >sexual harassment complaints against students seems a legit business

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 2 05:20:06 2016 No.16195090 >>16195065 http://www.tokyoreporter.com/2011/06/11/eikaiwa-sensei-dispenses-lewd-lessons-to-eager-female-pupil/

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 2 08:55:56 2016 No.16195610 >you will never go out drinking with your japanese school teachers and have them joke about the phrase かないたち At least I know this feel.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 2 09:04:04 2016 No.16195628 >>16195610 What's the joke? I don't get it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 2 09:06:33 2016 No.16195635 >>16195628 Try to think of how it sounds in English.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 2 09:08:07 2016 No.16195645 >>16194591 Overt time and have been working there for a couple years. The boss and i really get along well so he treats me good.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 2 13:03:23 2016 No.16196442 >>16195635 Not the guy you replied to, but I dont get it either

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 2 14:29:56 2016 No.16196715 >>16196442 Pronounced "Kanaiachi". It sounds like "Can i touchi"

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 2 14:39:36 2016 No.16196759 >>16196715 Made a mistake, it's: Kanaitachi

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