Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!pln-w!spln!dex!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!drn From: Brett Robson Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Computer animation jobs in Jp. for an American girl? Date: 29 Oct 2003 17:33:05 -0800 Organization: Newsguy News Service [http://newsguy.com] Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <3a1d1813.0310280820.b8c2e1a@posting.google.com> <94a6da7.0310290233.2153d1e6@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: p-707.newsdawg.com X-Newsreader: Direct Read News 4.20 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:7072 On 29 Oct 2003 02:33:17 -0800, Rafael Caetano ... > >"Fabian" : > >> Unless your Japanese is near fluent (JLPT level 1 or better), >> getting a job in Japan outside teaching English is the stuff >> that Twilight Zone shows are made of. > >I've heard there are many IT jobs which require only basic Japanese. > That used to be the case, but the number of very good IT people with good Japanese skills is so great that it puts you down the list and in fact out of the running unless you have good contacts; also the amount of documentation now in Japanese makes English less important in many areas. . ---- "No country hides itself behind the paper screen of cultural elitism like Japan, which, considering they've bought their entire civilisation from other people's hand-me-downs, is a bit of a liberty."