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[johanne]

My daughter's in a great daycare in Yokohama and it's 30,000 yen a month. In Vancouver we paid the equivalent of 70,000 yen. So, I would have to agree that excellent daycare is quite affordable in Japan, especially the city ones where the price is adjusted to income. The first year she was there we only paid 10,000 yen a month because it was based only on the 4 months salary we had earned after having arrived in September of the previous year. By the way, 30,000 a month is the maximum fee.

[womblingfree]

To be honest if you have a family and haven't yet finished an MA and don't have significant publications to go with an MA and don't then plan on doing a Phd...

You'd be far better off getting a professional teaching license and working at an international school. Good remunerations, possible housing for families, and subsidised schooling for your children. No uni is going to give you that unless you're an established academic and eikaiwas/dispatch companies have absolutely no infrastructure to accomodate families.

There are a couple of good agencies that deal with supplying teachers to international schools from abroad, much harder to get those jobs from within Japan.

With your DTEFLA a job at the British Council or similar would be your best bet as it won't really be recognised anywhere else. Not really fair but the DTEFLA is a very Eurocentric language school qualification and an MA isn't a recognised teaching certificate for an international school, or a school in the US/UK come to that.

[wabisabi365]

The op put his question up here in 2003. I wonder what he ended up doing? And why is he still getting advice?

[womblingfree]

[markle]