>We discussed this briefly in February. I think it might have been Mike
>Cash who pointed out how in the internet forums you mention, he would
>encounter foreigners (despite not having actually visited Japan)
>seeking just about any way to live & work here, and claiming that they
>would do anything to make it possible (with the sole exception of
>getting a degree to make them eligible for a visa). People like the
>drongo who answered your post ferinstance.

 >>Is there any pressing reason why you can't simply go back to school and
>>get the required degree?



I see these responses all the time and some people don't have the financial 
ability to just simply pop back in to school and get a degree. Some people 
are blessed with parents with means or are very lucky and can get it paid 
for but most can't. You would think the supposedly educated would learn and 
understand this and not look down their noses. Also surprisingly there are a 
lot of Koreans in Japan they must all have degrees and just really want to 
work in factories on the line.

Do you ask these people if they have the ability to do this or possibly 
assist them in showing them how to circumnavigate the paperwork, grants and 
student loans to accomplish this or just make snide comments and look down 
at them? The more educated we are gives us a responsibility to bring others 
up to our level and not put them down.



> Anyway, the above points inspired me to take Japanese, which in turn is
> why I want to live in Japan...

>>I'd suggest that you get inspired "to take English" in order to be
>>understood!

Another sarcastic remark on what sentence structure. If I have the choice of 
a precisely built house or a finely engineered product or a well written 
document guess which one has the least importance of the three. I work for a 
$40 million dollar a year stair company the largest and most successful 
stair company in the US and the philosophy of get your point across and make 
it quick and get on with something that makes a profit.

I understood exactly what he said and it would never occur to me to make a 
comment like that. (Now if the two posters know each other and it was a joke 
my apologies)



Now I duly expect rude and flaming comments thrown back at me.