obakesan wrote:
> just got a reply back from my friend, she says
> "As an example for salary for associate professor in national university,
> like me,  35 manen desu."

I'm not saying that's wrong, but it seems rather low. A Japanese/American
assoc.prof. equates to "senior lecturer" in Australia. Academics here
regard their salaries as poor by world standards, yet an SL gets
around $90k/year, which is about 75man'en/month
See:
http://www.monash.edu.au/entbarg/academic-general-2005/salary-academic.html
for typical Australian academic salary rates.

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Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia
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