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It doesn’t matter, this percentage means that if your skills are on a similar level as a native, you’ll land a job.

In other words, if you can’t land a job, you’re lacking something. The culprit usually is the Japanese language level.

Last year 98% of university graduates landed a job, you won’t find an easier market than that.

https://www.mext.go.jp/b_menu/toukei/chousa01/naitei/kekka/k_detail/1422624_00027.htm#:~:text=%E5%8F%96%E3%82%8A%E3%81%BE%E3%81%A8%E3%82%81%E3%81%AE%E7%B5%90%E6%9E%9C%E3%80%81%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6%E7%94%9F%E3%81%AE,%E6%94%AF%E6%8F%B4%E3%82%92%E8%A1%8C%E3%81%A3%E3%81%A6%E3%81%84%E3%81%BE%E3%81%99%E3%80%82

You did something wrong in your job hunting process, you should have been hired around last October.

Either your Japanese speaking skills aren’t as good as you think, you are applying too late or something else.

Going to a Japanese language school, buying time and honing your language skills seems like the only path left.

Big Magic, the organizer, usually takes a couple of days to post the lists.

Brazil is passing a law, but in practical terms it will only drive people to informal labor, with even less benefits than the current status.

A law being written and it being followed are completely different things in Brazil. A lot of laws are completely ignored and unenforced.

Nikkei reported today that a The Gate hotel will be built there: https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOUC27CRS0X20C26A5000000/

It’s probably good enough compared to what the tourists are usually getting back home, weight in the weak yen and the massive availability and it’s no wonder that a lot of tourists love the experience.

There are lots of better options than konbini, better onigiri, better sandwiches, better desserts, but tourists will never find them all in the same place.

Another commercial building is more likely, the location is in the middle of a large commercial area.

I have a feeling that once past 40, SDAM gets worse as the brain naturally loses its plasticity, and if this is true it’ll only get worse the more we age.

Trying to make new personal connections and even having new experiences starts looking like a waste of resources, because I’ll most likely forget about them in a couple of years anyway, so I feel like I stopped seeking those compared to when I was younger. (And this feed itself into a negative loop, as novelty, challenges and social engagement are the key drivers to maintain neuroplasticity)

So basically life is becoming a closed loop, where I perform a limited set of actions to both keep functioning as a member of the society and trying to enjoy it as much as possible.

But I do wonder sometimes if this is sustainable in the long run, as aging is not making things any easier.

On the other hand, when reading about the experiences of middle aged men in general, who I suppose are neurotypical, it seems quite similar to my own experiences.

So I am not sure if this is just what aging is, or if SDAM makes it significantly worse or better.

Any 3/x flyer, like a flipped Delver or Memory Guardian, completely shuts Tamiyo down in either modes.

That’s because homes in Japan, outside a few exceptions, are a depreciating asset.

It’s like buying a new car vs an used one.

But whatever makes you happy is the best choice, even if financially it doesn’t make sense.

She has just started playing Legacy, probably wasn’t aware of the old tech and likely the reason she called UR Tempo prowess as well.

Anyway, good content to incentivize Modern Affinity players to try Legacy.

They basically just need to get FoWs and Ancient Tombs and a few inexpensive cards and should be able to experience the format.

I commute to Shibuya and the tourists at the scramble crosswalk are the worst bunch, everyone else feels normal compared to those damn tourists.

They literally dash the moment the signal turns green, then come to a full stop and start taking pictures in the middle of the busiest crosswalk in the world.

I can’t really complain about Japanese spatial awareness, when I see people from all around the globe doing much worse on a daily basis.

If the guy is telling the truth (his story sounds very plausible) you’re a giant asshole to post about his personal life, specially about something so common such as loss of custody by foreign fathers.

If you can use AI to write your post, why didn’t you use it to check if his story was believable in the first place?

If I were your boyfriend and found out you were posting about my family matters online, I’d leave the relationship in the next second.

There is this guy Trump that is much crazier and even has a fandom that believes in every crazy shit.

If you think Japan is crazy, follow what’s going on in the US or Israel and you’ll think Japan is pretty normal.

In America (including South America) people get killed for being black/brown on a daily basis. If you think that’s not the most severe kind of racism, please enlighten us.

There are racists everywhere, probably even on Antarctica, and it should be fought at every opportunity.

But saying America has the “self-awareness” while the government is hunting down people based on the color of their skin is laughable at best.

The only western country more racist than the US is Israel, with their apartheid and genocidal government.

Get a Japanese girlfriend that is interested in learning a language you speak.

That’s a mutual double win, killing four birds with one stone.

I hadn’t thought about the correlation before reading this post, but I think you might be into something.

I am fluent in 4 languages and have SDAM and Aphantasia.

But I also don’t think in words (which is slightly different from not having an inner monologue), which I think is more relevant to learning new languages.

Definitely this. OP didn’t research how labor contracts are structured and was surprised by how shitty some companies are. Minashi zangyo sucks, but is a clear indicator that the company is shitty.

The other point about needing to use Japanese in Japan to talk to Japanese parents sounded like a snowflake complaint, welcome to the real world!

Eikawa is a good entryway to Japan, learn Japanese ASAP and move on, don’t keep complaining if you’re treated like a cog, because you’re one and the faster you realize that the better.

I don’t know from who you heard those pros, you definitely can’t decide your schedule as that’s entirely up to the hiring company, if you enter a shitty team you will most likely be stuck with it, the same goes with changing companies.

Unless you’re in a highly in demand career, then you have much more leverage to negotiate. But if that’s the case, why throw away your career being a temp worker at all.

I’d recommend Shinjuku Japanese Language Institute. I’ve seen people get to N1 level in one year at their intensive courses.

Pachinko machines are required by law to payout a minimum number of wins to the players, so if the machine hasn’t done that the whole day, the probability of the next player winning actually increases.

Young people these days seem to be much less resilient to being rejected, and they seem to give up more easily, nothing seems important enough anymore to obsess over and keep trying until you make it.

At the time I was single(circa 04〜07), you met random people at bars or clubs (the music type) and you just dealt with the people in the room. There were Social Media based encounters as well, but with no photos available (Japanese online culture sucks) it was as random as a bar. Going out with friends of friends had the same randomness as well.

Anyway most days you were unlucky, but if you just kept trying the occasional lucky days felt like a real win.

At least in Tokyo or other metropolis around the world, being single in your 20s or early 30s seems like a choice, as in not using every resource you have available into finding a partner/date/one night stand. You literally have millions of people to potentially match with.

It seems like the easier you make things, the softer people will become, and will still complain about it.

I am quite happy that I put all the effort when I was younger, I faced tons of rejections, had times I felt I was just wasting my time/money, but when things worked out it made it worth it.

I also had some fun and learned valuable lessons in the process as well, so I’d definitely recommend it.

Even today, if I wasn’t married and raising kids, I am quite confident that even with all the hurdles of my age (45M) and looks that are pretty average, I’d still find someone interesting to be together with.

As what are some couple hundred more reps for someone that did thousands already?

The deck is real, but the weaknesses are quite obvious too. It is still evolving and I believe it will become another archetype added to the meta, but far from top tier.

Any kind of interaction (removal, counter magic, hand disruption) if effective.

GY hate is effective. Leyline or a surgical extraction to either part of the combo stops it cold.

Artifact hate is semi-effective, the welder-cam combo itself won’t stop, but you can stop the painter combo and the infinite mana.

White has a ton of hate options such as Clarion Conqueror, Doorkeeper Thrull, Wrath of the Skies, Rest in Piece, Stony Silence etc.

Why do you exactly want the Gold NL card? I use the Olive Gold card and it has slightly better perks.

Unless you want another physical card I see no incentive to have it.

Just use Tabelog as the locals do.

That being said, the quality of Japanese food in Japan is miles above other countries, so chances are that any restaurant will be good enough for most foreigners, so just randomly entering a local restaurant should be fine.

Just be wary of restaurants with BIG displays in English, or those in very touristy areas. Some restaurants only cater to tourists, because they don’t know any better, those tend to be overpriced and have below average taste.

差別主義者のフリーライターが心配せずとも円安で自然と人が集まらなくなる。むしろ日本人が海外で出稼ぎに行くインセンティブが高くなるんじゃないかな。

外国人が嫌いでも外国製のサービスで解決しようぜと書いている時点で笑えるけど、DX、AI、ロボットツールで人手不足が何とかなると信じ切ってるなら、外国人受け入れを辞めて国を挙げてオープンAIやアンソローピックの大株主になれば良いと思うけど、数年内に飛躍的に進化しないとマジで現場は潰れるよ？

事務職が飽和状態だから元事務のオバさんやオッサンに3Kの仕事をやらせば解決！著者は頭沸いとんのか？

著者は地方の現場に行った事があるのかすら疑わしいレベル、競合他社よりも1.5倍の給料を払っても日本人が集まらない。入社してもキツくてすぐに辞める。ちょっとでも聞き回ったらそんな地方の企業の悲鳴はいくらでもある。ちゃんと取材しろや。

村社会の代表格と言っても良いくらいの田舎者が仕方なく外国人を受け入れようと腹を括ってるのに、アホなフリーライターいわく企業努力が足りないってさ。会社を経営したことのない素人がよく偉そうにアホな事を書けるなぁ〜ダニングクルーガー効果の見本かよ。

Every time it was tried(93 and 09), the result was worse than having the old LDP.

So basically LDP wins every time because the opposition sucks so bad.

Team Mirai have some quite interesting ideas , they managed to grow from 0 to about a dozen seats, but they are still a minuscule party at this point.

Food is like 40% of the experience in Tokyo, Osaka and other large cities.

Even in some remote places, a great place to dine can completely change the experience, but as you said to each its own.

Wages have been rising steadily since 2020, at least nominally.

https://www.bk.mufg.jp/column/others/b0077.html

アホな自民党の政治家のせいで大手のEVバスではなく、不具合だらけのOEM品を税金で買ったと。

自民党らしく裏金でも貰ったんじゃないかと思われても仕方ないくらいアホな決断。

For me it was a non-brainer, I pay less than my previous rent, for a more spacious and private house than the apartment I was living in.

Opted for a fixed-rate loan, as I was suspicious that negative interest rates wouldn’t exist forever.

My main reasoning was that even if I moved overseas for work, my kids would probably stay in Japan because of school and would need a place to stay at anyway.

5 years since I made that decision and feel happy so far. If things goes according to plan I will probably spend my retirement in Japan, only traveling home to see family eventually.

Property value has increased slightly since then as well, even though I live 1h from central Tokyo.

Your (language) skills and (Japanese work) experience is well below the market average. Don’t make any plans thinking that you’ll be able to make close to those numbers.

That being said, I know nothing about your field and you might have some experience that is highly valuable, so you might have a chance.

Good luck

It might be a little late to do something about it for this year, but I suspect your Japanese language skills might be too low compared to your peers.

Another possibility is that you’re only applying to very highly sought after companies, you should try lesser known/smaller companies at this point.

Some companies are hiring slightly less fresh graduates, but as a general trend they are not being able to fill all their positions.

For the 26卒 the current ratio is that companies are only able to fill 69.7% of the positions for fresh graduates. (https://saponet.mynavi.jp/column/detail/20251106202306.html)

I suspect you are doing something wrong (i.e. not applying to less famous companies), or lacking some important basic skills (i.e. Japanese) to not be able to find a position when there are plenty of vacancies around.

Fish and chips is a meh food even in England, it taste as good as the sauce you’re dipping into.

I only ate that in England because it’s a local staple, but wouldn’t think of eating it elsewhere.

Only an gringo would eat sweet açai bowl, those are meant to be eaten unsweetened, tasting like dirt. The original is very healthy, but even without sugar, quite caloric.

But then again plenty of people drink sweetened coffee as well, bunch of babies.

This a AI generated post for Karma farming, user account started few days ago, with no post history at all.

Job hunting from abroad is much harder, I tried it once pre-COVID, and spent about 6 months doing job hunting online.

In the end I was able to get one offer, which I eagerly took despite a big pay cut, because I couldn’t think of moving back to Japan without a job.

Once you are in Japan, you have the opportunity to job hunt again, so I’d suggest finding a position, even if shitty, then once you settle down restart your job hunting.

The job hopping will be a negative point for your resume, but the possibility of being unemployed in a foreign country is much worse IMHO.

I got this one from the 8cast discord

OP is mixing a lot of different things together.

1 - application agencies > should be avoided if possible, but the question is, can the PH ALT wannabe get a job in Japan without their services?

2 - dispatch companies > should be avoided if possible, but again, can the PH ALT wannabe get a direct contract without them?

3 - Japanese labor laws > much stricter than PH, learn about them before coming to the country.

ALT wannabes that have no knowledge or capacity to get a job by themselves in Japan are the target for 1 & 2. They are offering their deals, which are shitty but within the law, it’s up to the candidates to decide if they want a easy way into the country being exploited or not.

The thing is that without those intermediaries, 90% of PH ALT candidates would never be able to land a job in Japan in the first place.

Gamers (including Magic players) are some of the worst fans to deal with, some have literally no idea of how businesses operate in real life and complain about trivial stuff because they can’t understand the reasoning behind it.

Those are similar to anti-vaccine, flat earth believers or MAGA crowds in how loud they are about voicing completely stupid ideas that make no sense at all, but they firmly believe they are on the righteous side.

But companies can’t tell customers how stupid they are for obvious reasons, so differently from those other idiot groups, where we have normal people pointing out how idiotic they sound, gamers live in a echo chamber where the most stupid loud people keep saying the same stupid stuff while other idiots applaud.

People want to try local fast food joints when traveling as well.

It’s not like people who stay at 5 star hotels have a commitment to only eat at Michelin star restaurants.

One needs to be particularly dumb to think that someone would take their time to fake an entire box, including commons, lands & tokens from the latest set.

But here we are.

軋轢が生じる事を覚悟の上で移民政策を進めてきた欧州、特にメルケル政権のドイツの場合は日本の人口より大幅に少ないにも関わらず、2023年に日本のGDPを抜いた事実は移民政策の重要性を物語っている。

移民の受け入れに消極的な少子高齢化の日本が、少子高齢化に本気で取り組んでいる国に経済面で置いていかれるのは当然の結果。

みんなで穏やかに貧乏になろうと言う覚悟の上でやって行くなら仕方ないけど、移民反対だけど生活が苦しいと文句言うアホが多い事に呆れる。

Those are niche as well, mainstream is soccer, Hollywood, Netflix etc.

For foreigners the SPI test works as a language assessment tool as well, if you can’t understand High School level questions in the same timeframe of a Japanese person, your language skills are definitely lacking.

Use Tabelog and find better ramen places wherever you are at.

Ichiran is just good ramen, far from whatever better ranked option you can find in Tokyo, its greatest selling point is being open 24h.

But at peak times you’ll have to wait at those places as well, so try going earlier.

I might have understood wrong, but it seems you speak Japanese. If so ML is a hot field and you should start looking for a new position, try bigger companies that have better development practices next time.

You might have some difficulties due the possibility of being perceived as job hopping, but I think it’s worth trying. Go both through recruiters and directly through IT focused sites like Green, Findy, レバテック etc.

If you don’t speak Japanese and want to continue working in Japan, learning the language should be your top priority.

Regarding your personal situation, just make some international friends, I’m Brazilian as well and when I was young I’d spend all my weekends partying at Shibuya and Roppongi and having a great time.

Some Japanese people are more international, but I ended up either meeting them at those neighborhoods or online at communities with international themes.

Depends on your goals, but if you want to work in a Japanese office, N1 is the bare minimum and still quite far from native level conversations that happen on a daily basis or with a client. (High school level)

N2 is maybe acceptable if you have highly sought after skills in a non-client facing position. (Junior High level)

N3 for some software development positions maybe, but they probably need to be able to communicate in English as well because that Japanese level will not be enough for anything but talking about the weather. (Elementary school level)

Learn Japanese and change jobs ASAP. Whatever you try to do via haken is a waste of time in the long run.

Went to a doctor, took the medicine, then exercised (biking outdoors) regularly, this was the first step.

After I stabilized, changed jobs to a less stressful position, then started going to sauna 2 times per week.

After a year doing this I feel almost healed, but not feeling like going back to the rat race.

Leaving descendants is the primary motivation for living beings, if you opted out of the race nobody will judge you, but from a evolutionary perspective you are a complete failure.

Tamiyo is fine (as some of the other banned cards) the problem as always is the Blue Shell, if you can’t see that you’re a very shallow player.

Power creep is real, but black has Barrowgoyf, green has Scythecat Cub, red has Broadside Bombardiers, white has Phelia (that laughs at Murktide), colorless has Glaring Fleshraker etc.

There is no single creature that should be banned by current power level standards.Start banning one and you will need to ban them all.

The only creature that should be considered to be banned is Tamiyo, and mainly because of the Blue Shell, rather than its own stats.

Anything made from metal that is handcrafted in Japan is likely to last for a lifetime: knives made in Osaka (Sakai)/Gifu(Seki), other kitchenware from Niigata(Tsubame Sanjo), nail clippers, tweezers etc.

High end rice cookers

Higher end glass frames from Fukui (Sabae), although lots of those are also available outside Japan, because they manufacture for international brands.

Mechanical watches like the Grand Seiko

Musical instruments from Yamaha or Saxophones from Yanagisawa

There are lots of other stuff, but mostly used only in Japanese culture context like pottery, Japanese musical instruments etc.

Let me tell you something shocking, some Korean people that daily eats kimchi and garlic smells like kimchi and garlic!

Stereotypical old school Korean guys that daily eats Kimchi and Garlic will definitely stand out in Japan.

I’m not sure how racist that is. It’s like saying I know that guy is black/white, because he has very dark/pale skin.

Are you black? Last time I checked Black people were being killed by the police, just for being black in the US.

Japan is far from perfect, but at least you don’t have people killing others because how they look.

If you think the US is a better place to be black than Japan, I’d genuinely would like to know why.

Or is it just the case that white people who never experienced discrimination back home, have their first experience in Japan, and now Japan is the most racist country?

Do you know other countries where black people are shot by the police, just for being black?

Tamiyo flipping on turn 3 is fine, the problem is flipping on turn 1 turning the game into a Protect the Queen sub-game, while keeping the threat of 2-card combo at the same time.

Or by evading removal by being flipped at instant speed.

Those lines only happen frequently because of the blue shell.

WotC has made clear in the last ban announcement that they want to preserve old cards, so I don’t know why some people are irrationally hopeful that Entomb, or even less likely, Reanimate will be gone.

If anything happens it’s Tamiyo that will be banned and that’s it. It will be another card banned for the sins of the blue tempo shell, but that’s how WotC has been curating the format for the past decade, so anyone expecting a different outcome just isn’t paying enough attention.

If you’re not happy with that, you can leave the format, but another player will eventually buy your RL cards and the number of players will stay roughly the same.

Legacy and Vintage are niche formats for those who want to play powerful cards that are borderline broken, this is their raison d'être.

If WotC start over-curating the format, it will become Modern with RL cards, which will actually make much more players leave the format.

All industries are open to foreigners, maybe for some niche cases like defense or government, as long as you have the language skills and the expertise required.

I’ve personally met foreigners in law, finance, consulting, HR, hospitality, food&beverages, education, entertainment, agriculture. But I’m pretty sure you can find them in other industries as well.

Japan has a serious shortage of workers and as long as they know the language and don’t mind the low wages (yen is so weak right now!), they are able to find a spot here.

If you consider UB Lurrus, a deck with 4 frogs and 4 bowmasters, the minimum amount of card advantage and no 2-for-1 cards a control deck, then we have very different definitions of control.

That’s a Tempo deck.

Your MBA will mean peanuts in Japan, don’t come unless you have other reasons to be here, because professionally it won’t pay off.

Unless you have an extensive knowledge in some field, say you worked with lots of investment banking deals before you started your MBA, was an accomplished startup entrepreneur before the MBA etc.

In those cases you might find a niche position that doesn’t require native level Japanese and companies interested in hiring you.

Control in a high powered format like current Legacy tends to perform poorly, lots of stuff needs to be answered on the stack, and the games might not go long enough for the control player to build up resources to take over the game.

I am in my fourties and I meet my friends weekly, but that’s because we share a hobby. We have known each other for 5-6 years.

I have other Japanese friends, but we only meet 3 or 4 times per year. Specially after Corona the frequency we go out drinking has fallen off a cliff.

Family and work all get in the way. Also with families we tend to move outside Tokyo, so meeting frequently becomes more difficult.

Losing weight is just a matter of calories deficit, if not eating breakfast doesn’t make you eat even more calories on the other meals, then you are fine.

I’ve been doing the same most of my adult life and have been able to keep my weight under control.

Depends on which part of the country you’re talking about.

People in major cities have never heard about them.

People in smaller towns where there’s a large population of Latin Americans tend to have a more negative perception about them.

In which culture the people in power don’t try to sweep issues under the rug? This happens all around the world.

OP seems to hold Japan to a different standard for some reason.

We don’t know where OP is from, but statistically OP likely lives in a country where women are raped/murdered in higher numbers.

OP is unfazed by those problems at home and is spending money everyday supporting a culture that kills/rape women in higher numbers.

But is so so torn because she will be spending her money to support Japan, which has less violence against women.

OP sounds very naive, or worse a total hypocrite.

Lots of anecdotes and very little data in the article posted. The only relevant piece is maybe about chikan, which while a crime, is much less serious than rape or murder (feminicide).

Why don’t you compare rape/murder rates in Japan vs your home country, or other countries you’ve been to or wish to visit?

Let me rephrase, while Japan isn’t perfect, it is a safer place for women (and men) than most countries on earth.

Also whatever you read about the problem with the Japanese police and justice system (which do exist) is also way less problematic than what you would encounter in most countries as well.

Basically you come across as nitpicking problems in Japan while ignoring bigger problems in other countries.