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fromCanada · Joined: 20 Sep 2003 Posts: 48 Location: Ontario

Hi all,

I would like to teach in Aichi-ken next summer and right now I'm doing some research. Can anyone recommend any good smaller schools in that prefecture? (i.e. decent working conditions, good pay). No visa sponsorship is necessary as I have Japanese citizenship. (Yay me!).

I am primarily interested in teaching children and teenagers.

Thanks!

Mosley · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Posts: 158

Have you looked into "Peppykids"? It's a chain school eikaiwa for children only. I'd never work for them(can't handle the little s****!), but what I've heard about them from others is largely positive.

shmooj · Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 1758 Location: Seoul, ROK

By "next summer" do you really mean "just for the summer". This may affect where you can work.

What about one of the smaller chains like Yamaha? I also know of New Leaf Academy (I think that's the name) and CESA English School. But the latter is my place and there aren't any openings there for next summer as far as I know.

fromCanada · Joined: 20 Sep 2003 Posts: 48 Location: Ontario

I'm not looking for a summer job. I'lll be done my B.A. by next April and I graduate in June.

I'd like to stay in Japan 2-3 years..who knows? Maybe longer....

homersimpson · Joined: 14 Feb 2003 Posts: 569 Location: Kagoshima

fromCanada · Joined: 20 Sep 2003 Posts: 48 Location: Ontario

homersimpson,

I was born in Canada so I automatically have Canadian citizenship.
I have Japanese citizenship through my parents. I know that Japan doesn't recognize dual citizenship, so I will be coming to Japan strictly as a Japanese citizen and when I return to Canada, I'll be returning as a Canadian....

homersimpson · Joined: 14 Feb 2003 Posts: 569 Location: Kagoshima

So you have a Japanese passport? It's really too bad Japan doesn't recognize dual citizenship; it would make it a lot easier for people of Japanese parentage.

matko · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 43

lajzar · Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Posts: 647 Location: Saitama-ken, Japan

Im in the dual citizenship camp, so I know what happens (not half Japanese, but the same principles apply). Basically, whichever passport you enter a country on, you leave on. Simple as that. They need to keep track of foreigners, and it bothers imigration everywhere if someone enters a country and then they have no record of him leaving.

The fun bit is that there isnt an anything particularly stopping you from leaving a country on one passport, and landing from that flight and showing a differnet passport.

fromCanada · Joined: 20 Sep 2003 Posts: 48 Location: Ontario

False pretenses seems a bit harsh......the way I figure it is that the Japanese government knows I was born in Canada and must know that automatic citizenship is granted here simply based on that factor . Plus, I do have a Japanese passport.... and the embassy people didn't give me any hassle.

Hmmm...maybe this topic should be a separate thread?

Dominique · Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 141 Location: Juso, Osaka

But as of the age of 20, don't you have to declare to be either Japanese or Canadian or you lose your Japanese citizenship?

bearcat · Joined: 08 May 2004 Posts: 367

Japanese forums discuss this alot. Generally most folks dont tell one country or the other that they have the citizenry in other country. The only way for them to know is that said country tells other said country..... and unless there is some sort indepth investigation on you, that isnt going to happen.

There are many many people who have dual citizenship.