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Japan GAF |OT| I'm not planning a trip; I live here!
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Sammy Samusu
Member
I'm in.
Not sure how I'm going to go back home in Tsukuba but I'm in.
I'm so drunk right now.
Osake yasui.
I love the people in this University.
I have done some exchange programs but so far this one takes the cake.
Please let's meet. It would make my time here so much more special.
Not sure how I'm going to go back home in Tsukuba but I'm in.
I'm so drunk right now.
Osake yasui.
I love the people in this University.
I have done some exchange programs but so far this one takes the cake.
Please let's meet. It would make my time here so much more special.
Thank you sir. I assume its the Grill Burger Club Sasa as there are two Sasas fairly close to each other. Ended up that day to a Nepalese that was excellent.
Question: Where can I get a good pressure cooker? Ive been googling some from amazon and rakuten but there seems to be a lot of different types. Anyone buy one?
These also cost an arm and a leg at times:
https://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/aw/d/B002L3T0BO/ref=mp_s_a_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1506958925&sr=8-6&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=プレッシャークッカー&dpPl=1&dpID=41EBxr234ML&ref=plSrch
FINALFANTASYDOG
Member
(Sorry if this seems spammy, it is a great opportunity to live and work in Japan and get your feet in the games industry)
Friends 200-person gaming company is currently looking to recruit people for a 1200 yen an hour English game mail-support / basic translation job....
It is literally a job where you get to play games and study whatever you want game related for 4 hours a day and then do basic translations the 4 hours of the day.
If anyone is interested please PM and I will send you the link!
Since I'm not doing official recruiting for them, I don't feel comfortable posting the company info in public, but other NeoGafers are working at the same company.
Friends 200-person gaming company is currently looking to recruit people for a 1200 yen an hour English game mail-support / basic translation job....
It is literally a job where you get to play games and study whatever you want game related for 4 hours a day and then do basic translations the 4 hours of the day.
If anyone is interested please PM and I will send you the link!
Since I'm not doing official recruiting for them, I don't feel comfortable posting the company info in public, but other NeoGafers are working at the same company.
FINALFANTASYDOG
Member
I agree the pay is extremely bad, it can go up to 1300 quickly though. It is 8 hours a day, there is never 8 hours of work though, the rest of the time you can use as you wish.
If you are actually skilled(some programming skills) you could go up to 300,000 a month.
The Japanese people who do this work make 1000 yen an hour.
This is just an offer have a way out of English Teaching for people stuck doing that though.... get out of English Teaching as soon as you can if you are aiming for long-term in Japan....
Think of it like an internship, You wear what you want, tattoos, dyed hair, weird piercings, you can play nerf ball fights or switch in your downtime. The head of HR of this company has dreads, only wear shorts and is a semi-popular DJ... not an experience you will typically find in Japan
You are surrounded by game industry people doing all types of roles in the game industry, programmers, artists.
You get a year or so experience and you can go apply for those dream good paying jobs.
Most English schools could care less about your future, this company actually has a career path and plans for you, if you so wish.
If I could go back to my early 20's I would kill to do this job instead of the year I spent English Teaching.
I've talked to hiring managers in Japan who get people with only English teaching in their resume and it just okay pass....
BombStrike
Member
I need some tasty food for dinner. Being at home in the middle of nowhere to anything nice is fucking boring.
I got my salary and I'll just want to take the train to go and check anything I fancy from your recommendations.
Anywhere between Yokohama and Tokyo.
Any mexican food that doesn't cost me an arm and a leg?
Or creamy-like tonkotsu raamen?
Or, any place that you higly recommend?
A burger would do nicely too. For some reason I crave something unhealthy today.
Also kinda late but the list could be useful to other people.
Good Mexicans are quite rare but I heard really good things from Junkadelic in Nakameguro.
For burgers here are my recommendations:
* Fellows (omotesando): Usually very busy and small, pretty nice in the evening
* The Great Burger (meiji-jingumae): One of my top recommendation, wait time is not too bad even on busy days, really great burgers
* Brozers (ningyocho): Slightly further after Tokyo but another really good burger
* Gotham Grill (ebisu): Probably one of the best burger I had in Japan, but very expensive (2,600 jpy iirc, been a while since I went)
* Golden Brown (nakameguro): Another really good burger but the place is quite small and closes early
Sasa Burger was also mentioned and I recommend it too.
If you want to ask about more burger places feel free, those are the somewhat easy to access ones. With a group of friends we were trying a new burger place every week for a couple years and found some really interesting ones.
I realize that this will be one of the dumbest questions in this thread but it's been gnawing at me and Google has failed me:
Are there (possibly now defunct) McDonald's restaurants in Japan that were specifically selling only cheeseburgers, fries and drinks and nothing else? Or something very similar to that? I could have sworn there were these very specific McDs that functioned with a limited menu. Am I crazy or do they exist. Or used to exist?
If so, what were these specific McDonalds called?
Are there (possibly now defunct) McDonald's restaurants in Japan that were specifically selling only cheeseburgers, fries and drinks and nothing else? Or something very similar to that? I could have sworn there were these very specific McDs that functioned with a limited menu. Am I crazy or do they exist. Or used to exist?
If so, what were these specific McDonalds called?
Recommendations are good anytime. The reason I am trying to get an instant pot cooker is because I want to make good meat for tacos at home because finding good mex-restaurants is damn hard here.
UristMcDwarf
Member
So a bit of trouble, but the mental health clinic my wife and I made an appointment at (clinical anxeity, yay) just called me back and said they don't serve foreigners. Told me to go the local university hospital. Kinda frustrated.
That honestly sounds illegal. Some places I believe dont serve non-Japanese speakers without official interpreters, but not serving foreigners sounds sketchy as all hell.
Got a website?
Aizo
Banned
My friend goes to TELL for her therapy and seems to have made a lot of progress. Maybe check them out.
I realize I have no idea where in Japan you live... if its an emergency and you need to talk to someone, they have a hotline.
UristMcDwarf
Member
http://www.wakaba-ekimae.com
The nurses told us it was the doctor who refused us.
Thanks, I'll give em a look. I live in a town down the tobu tojo line in Saitama. Do you know Kawagoe? It's about 10-15 mins down the track from there.
Wow, nothing on the site about anything like that. Shitty situation all around.
UristMcDwarf
Member
It is what it is. I'll survive, thanks for the support
Izakaya plus Karaoke (if we want) sounds perfect. Does 2nd November work for people?
I am personally fond of Ikebukoro (because I can walk there
It's not too late to RSVP for this is it? I am free on the 2nd. Ikebukuro works really well for me as well.
Jim_Cacher
Member
Visiting Osaka next Friday. It has been one year since last visit. Really excited to see the two Babymetal live shows! BTW, anyone know some hidden spots in Kansai area? I want to check out some cool places during my short trip.
Izakaya plus Karaoke (if we want) sounds perfect. Does 2nd November work for people?
I am personally fond of Ikebukoro (because I can walk there
2nd is Thursday? so maybe ok for me too. I might go to New Zealand for a business trip but if not, I could join you all.
I never wear pants so thats all wrong.
Does having a lawyer do your visa renewal stuff for you actually increase your chances of a multi-year visa or not?
Like, do immigration lawyers do anything other than watch me fill out the same exact papers I've always done?
(Background: I had a 3-year a while back, but got one-year visas these last couple of renewals even though my income went up. Coming up on 10 total consecutive years here. Some stuff the immigration officer said was -- according to a lawyer -- not true.)
Like, do immigration lawyers do anything other than watch me fill out the same exact papers I've always done?
(Background: I had a 3-year a while back, but got one-year visas these last couple of renewals even though my income went up. Coming up on 10 total consecutive years here. Some stuff the immigration officer said was -- according to a lawyer -- not true.)
Did you change visa status? That usually brings it back down to 1 year. Although from my experience (managing visas for about 100 foreign employees), there is an element of randomness.
345triangle
Member
i used a lawyer when i changed visa status about six years ago and it was really only helpful for getting through that red tape and figuring out how to define my somewhat unorthodox employment situation. i got a one-year visa that time, then a three-year when i renewed it myself, then another three-year the time after that.
i would say don't bother if you're not changing anything major and are confident filling out the forms, which seems to be the case. there does seem to be an element of randomness, like applying for a credit card here.
Thanks for the replies and insight. To clarify and add detail:
Hm, this didn't happen to me. For a time, I had multiple part time jobs rather than one big one (the combined income was still over 3 million yen a year), which the immigration office didn't like, but I work for 1 company now.
Nope. Still a Specialist in Humanities (English teacher) this whole time. I did change companies in my third year, but that was like 6 years ago.
Hm, this didn't happen to me. For a time, I had multiple part time jobs rather than one big one (the combined income was still over 3 million yen a year), which the immigration office didn't like, but I work for 1 company now.
Hmmm, since my employment situation is now a lot more straightforward than it was those years back (see reply above), I probably don't need that bit, eh?
345triangle
Member
yeah, sorry i can't offer more insight into why you've been getting one-year renewals, but it sounds like not using a lawyer probably isn't the reason.
Hydrogen Bluebird
Member
Really random question, but anyone here in Osaka manage to buy an SNEs classic (US/EU)? Any shop here that could have one? Thanks.
Play Asia had them yesterday for 20,000 yen. I thought it was too much, but now that theyre gone I regret it.
Porcile
Member
Unless you've never played any of the games before, 20,000 is stupid price. I've played every game on it before so I played it for about an hour last night and don't expect to ever play it again.
I havent decided yet what Ill do, but what more curious about your thoughts.
Im prob wait and see how stock is getting replenished.
Porcile
Member
I guess it's a limitation of the hardware but it only outputs at 720p.
The controllers are good but the material they used is not the same as the original controllers. Getting two in the box is nice though.
Like I said, I have played every game in the set at least once, even that terrible football game and Starfox 2 so there was less to surprise me than there was in the Famicom Mini. Overall I feel like there are too many games missing from the base set. I'm talking about the SF but even the SNES is lacking the games I'd want.
I would just try to get one for 8000 yen but maybe you won't be able to find one at that price without a bit of luck.
The controllers are good but the material they used is not the same as the original controllers. Getting two in the box is nice though.
Like I said, I have played every game in the set at least once, even that terrible football game and Starfox 2 so there was less to surprise me than there was in the Famicom Mini. Overall I feel like there are too many games missing from the base set. I'm talking about the SF but even the SNES is lacking the games I'd want.
I would just try to get one for 8000 yen but maybe you won't be able to find one at that price without a bit of luck.
Ask if you are eligbl for the permanent Visa, and I do not know what you do but can you get the High-value worker Visa or something like that.
UristMcDwarf
Member
The earthquake woke my wife and I up. It's the third one I have felt personally. It is a strange feeling for someone who grew up in central Alberta, Canada.
Yeah, I'd like to try. This next year is #10 for me, which I think is their minimum for getting permanent residence; that's the next step, hopefully.
I've read online that for the 5-year visa, they prefer a doctorate degree (I only have a Master's) and a slightly higher income than mine. Still, I'll see if those are concrete laws or just preference.
Sammy Samusu
Member
I went to the hanabi festival in Tsuchiura, it was fun to sit on the grass and talk to my friends. Lots of good food in there too, but the fireworks were somewhat meh.
Go for the fireworks, stay for the atmosphere I guess.
By the way, if you guys have snap, send me a PM so we can add each other.
I just love how Nintendo is everywhere here in Japan. I saw a bunch of kids playing 3DS and Switch too.
Go for the fireworks, stay for the atmosphere I guess.
By the way, if you guys have snap, send me a PM so we can add each other.
I just love how Nintendo is everywhere here in Japan. I saw a bunch of kids playing 3DS and Switch too.
LonelyGreyWolf
Banned
Yeah, it's quite funny. Even the tiniest of 7-11's carry Mario & Splatoon 2-themed candy ^^