On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:16:31 -0000, Igirisujin  ...
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>Hello NG and Happy New year to you all
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>Im looking to move to Japan around August time this year to be with my
>Japanese girlfriend.

Learn to read hiragana and katakana. 12 kanji a week for 8 months is around 400
which is a useful amount. It is hard though to study kanji outside of Japan
because of the lack of reinforcement but 400 is a reasonable target.


>Any help be it simple or complicated would be very gratefully received and
>many thanks in advance  to you all.
>


Firstly don't even bother looking before you get here unless you decide to take
a job with a language chain
compare the serious english page with
http://www.teachinjapan.com/
the silly pink rabbit japanese version
http://www.nova-group.com/

Perhaps try but I guarrantee you will get sick of "great we look forward to
meeting you when you get here".

12 months ago I would have said don't bother there are no jobs. However I have
heard the market has picked up noticably recently, but I am neither on the job
market nor have I spoken to any agents recently so that might be total crap.
There are a lot of bilingual IT around who live here permanently so the
competition is still high. You might have to teach English.

The other point is there is practically no such thing as a foreign company in
Japan now. The expat is nearly extinct. Foreign company are actually Japanese
companies with funny names. They have Japanese management, employment practices
and Japanese conditions.

What area are you in? Anything to do with Microscoft probably requires near
native level Japanese.



Brett




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