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Le Creature
Joined: 18 Jan 2006
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 Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 4:39 am Post subject: Five Random Questions For You Folks To Dissect |
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1) Is there any possibility of teaching students privately if you do not have a degree? I am English/Australian and have a mixed accent.
2) Tuna products - are they guaranteed dolphin-friendly? This includes Subway and restaurants (etc.)
3) What is the possibility of English speaking doctors or hospital staff?
4) What is the price of certain hobbies? I'm talking about language lessons, martial arts, learning an instrument.
5) What is the minimum age entry for clubs and pubs? I am 18 years old and have been told that 20 is the age limit yet young people still get in. This confused me. Is ID required?
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Brooks
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| Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 4:42 am Post subject: |
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you can find doctors who speak English.
If you live near Osaka or Tokyo, it is easier to find a doctor that speaks English. The US Embassy has a list of doctors.
You can legally drink alcohol at 20.
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JimDunlop2
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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Location: Japan
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1) Sure... Technically there are legal issues but this isn't Korea. No one will EVER question your visa status or education credentials when teaching privately. As long as you are staying in Japan legally under a proper visa, I'd say it's OK.
2) No.
3) Hit and miss. I've found from personal experience that even doctors who supposedly speak English, don't -- or at least don't like to do so. HOWEVER, all of these doctors, when I've gone out of my way to speak to THEM in Japanese, has caused them to open right up -- then the English flows like a river. (I think that it's to save face. They don't want to appear foolish speaking to you, but by you making an effort in Japanese, it puts them at ease and they figure... Well hey! If HE can do it, maybe I can too)...
4) Prices vary. I pay 5,000 yen a month for tea ceremony (for 3 sessions), and 4,000 yen a week for kung-fu lessons (3 times a week), and 8,000 yen a month for my gym membership.
5) 20 is legal drinking age in Japan. Unlikely you would ever get carded, but if you did, they should refuse you service. Unlike many of the states in the U.S. or even most provinces in Canada where you cannot even ENTER a pub under-age, many places in the world allow minors to ENTER, just not to drink alcohol. |
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PAULH
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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Location: Western Japan
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| Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 5:03 am Post subject: Re: Five Random Questions For You Folks To Dissect |
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| Le Creature wrote: |
| 1) Is there any possibility of teaching students privately if you do not have a degree? I am English/Australian and have a mixed accent. |
Degree is needed for a sponsored visa. Can teach without a degree e,g, working holiday but you need to have a job to support yourself.
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| 2) Tuna products - are they guaranteed dolphin-friendly? This includes Subway and restaurants (etc.) |
Tuna and dolphin get on with each other last time I checked.
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| 3) What is the possibility of English speaking doctors or hospital staff? |
Most big hospitals will have English speaking doctors and some doctors advertise in magazines for foreigners. Many doctors have trained overseas and speak some English. Same goes for dentists.
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| 4) What is the price of certain hobbies? I'm talking about language lessons, martial arts, learning an instrument. |
Language lessons will cost as much as you can afford. Do you want part time or full time? Language exchange? study at a school?
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| 5) What is the minimum age entry for clubs and pubs? I am 18 years old and have been told that 20 is the age limit yet young people still get in. This confused me. Is ID required? |
20 is the drinking age in Japan. Can enter nightclubs but can not buy alcohol. |
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Big John Stud
Joined: 07 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 5:48 am Post subject: Re: Five Random Questions For You Folks To Dissect |
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| Le Creature wrote: |
| 1) Is there any possibility of teaching students privately if you do not have a degree? I am English/Australian and have a mixed accent. |
Sure but you will be working illegally! Most likely no one would care though.
[quote="Le Creature"]3) What is the possibility of English speaking doctors or hospital staff?[/quote]
As written above living in or near Tokyo or Osaka better the chances. But even in a small town most doctors speak some English.
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| 4) What is the price of certain hobbies? I'm talking about language lessons, martial arts, learning an instrument. |
Judo is 5,000 yen a month at the Kodokan in Tokyo. A very good deal. Akido at the main dojo in Shinjuku is 10,000 yen a month. Kempo is also 10,000. My Gold's Gym membership fee is 9,000 a month. Japanese language lessons are very cheap. Most city halls offer langauge lessons for free. Many people advertise to exchange langauge lessons. |
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abufletcher
Joined: 14 Sep 2005
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Location: Shikoku Japan (for now)
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| What's a mere lad of 18 doing away from his mom's apron strings? Seriously, I thought the only way you could spend time in a foreign country at that tender age was to join the US military. |
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PAULH
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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Location: Western Japan
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| Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 6:27 am Post subject: Re: Five Random Questions For You Folks To Dissect |
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| Le Creature wrote: |
| 1) Is there any possibility of teaching students privately if you do not have a degree? I am English/Australian and have a mixed accent.Thank ye. |
So does that mean you speak Austrish? They have lots of Austrishes in Australia.
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Glenski
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN
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| Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 6:30 am Post subject: |
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1. I agree with Jim, but you have not really stated whether you are going to be here legally or not. We can only assume not. You don't need a degree for working holiday visas (but do you qualify?), student visas (are you planning to enroll in a Japanese school?), cultural visas (are you going to study under a craftsman?), dependent visas (are you married to a fellow foreigner who is working here?) or for spouse visas (do you have a Japanese spouse?).
Also, people probably won't ask you your visa status, but be aware (or is it beware?) that the government has set up a web site for people to report visa overstayers (and potential other troublemakers). If your private lesson student (or anyone you meet, for that matter) takes a disliking to you, and knows you are here without a proper visa, you MIGHT be reported, which could lead to serious consequences.
3. Where the heck are you planning to live? I can give you a list of English speaking doctors in Hokkaido.
www.business.australia.or.jp/sapporo/english/doctors.html
Moreover, at 18 years of age, HOW are you planning to live? |
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BurnChurch
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| Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 10:32 am Post subject: hey Glenski |
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hey glenski.
Do you know the web address of the site you were saying?
Is it really that dangerous to have private students if you are under a tourist visa or other one not suitable for teaching privately?
Thanks for your advice! |
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PAULH
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| Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 10:35 am Post subject: Re: hey Glenski |
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hey glenski.
Do you know the web address of the site you were saying?
Is it really that dangerous to have private students if you are under a tourist visa or other one not suitable for teaching privately?
Thanks for your advice! |
To teach private students you need a place to teach them, books. Where are you going to live. A tourist visa is 90-days. What do you plan to do to find them in that time? |
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Glenski
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Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN
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hey glenski.
Do you know the web address of the site you were saying? |
All articles that I've seen which lead to the original news article are dead links. However, Debito Arudou's web page has this to offer. I think that if you can read Japanese, you'll find it in 2 links.
http://www.debito.org/immigrationsnitchsite.html
(Edited upon Paul's note below.)
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PAULH
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hey glenski.
Do you know the web address of the site you were saying? |
All articles that I've seen which lead to the original news article are dead links. However, Debito Arudou's web page has this to offer. I think that if you can read Japanese, you'll find it in 2 links.
http://www.debito.org/immigrationsnitchsite.html
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| Glenski, a bug in your link post |
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Glenski
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Is it really that dangerous to have private students if you are under a tourist visa or other one not suitable for teaching privately?
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If you are working without a proper visa (including overstaying by one day), you are subject to any of the following:
detention without a lawyer for up to 21 or 23 days,
further incarceration as deemed appropriate by a judge,
fine up to 3 million yen (US$30,000),
deportation at your expense in handcuffs,
being blacklisted from returning to Japan for 5-10 years.
Yeah, I'd say it's dangerous, but that's just me. Others may post that the risk itself is low, but I'm just a scaredy-cat, I guess. I can't imagine looking over my shoulder every day to avoid a raid on a place where I worked illegally, or to duck the cops if my student/girlfriend/boyfriend/bartender/fellow drinking buddy/loudmouthed foreigner who thinks I stole his girl in the gaijin bar/etc. decides that he/she doesn't like my face and knows I'm here illegally, and so calls immigration. |
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PAULH
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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Location: Western Japan
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| Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 1:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Glenski wrote: |
If you are working without a proper visa (including overstaying by one day), you are subject to any of the following:
detention without a lawyer for up to 21 or 23 days,
further incarceration as deemed appropriate by a judge,
fine up to 3 million yen (US$30,000),
deportation at your expense in handcuffs,
being blacklisted from returning to Japan for 5-10 years.. |
That I would say, is the very extreme end, reserved for drug traffickers and who commit heinous crimes in japan.
Two years ago a couple of studnets overstayed their visa and they spent a week in jail and then deported. they were actually leaving the country when they were caught.
They have to hold you for 10 days and then charge you with a crime, in effect asking a judge for extension of custody, usually automatically granted.
You can either voluntarily turn yourself in in whuch case immigration wil give you a certain date to leave the country, or forcible deportation.
Get kicked out by force and you cant come back for 10 years. Leave of your own accord and its about a year of non-return to Japan. |
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JimDunlop2
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 2:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Glenski wrote: |
detention without a lawyer for up to 21 or 23 days,
further incarceration as deemed appropriate by a judge,
fine up to 3 million yen (US$30,000),
deportation at your expense in handcuffs,
being blacklisted from returning to Japan for 5-10 years. |
Paul: Like everything in Japan, it varies in each situation.... But since I've personally known at least 3 people who have run afoul of the Japanese legal system, I can vouch for their situations (but not any others).
Friend #1: (Indonesian, caught working illegally and overstaying)
detention without a lawyer for up to 21 or 23 days? YES
further incarceration as deemed appropriate by a judge? YES -- about an additional 2 months before the case got to court
fine up to 3 million yen (US$30,000)? NO but his expenses involved in getting home and to get him out of his mess were very high
deportation at your expense in handcuffs? YES
being blacklisted from returning to Japan for 5-10 years? YES
Friend #2: (Filipino, caught overstaying and lucky for him, the police DIDN'T find out he was working too, so it was a simple overstay case).
detention without a lawyer for up to 21 or 23 days? YES
further incarceration as deemed appropriate by a judge? NO
fine up to 3 million yen (US$30,000) YES (well, not the full 3 mil. but about half that amount was charged to his family who live in Japan legally)
deportation at your expense in handcuffs? NO (to my knowledge) but escorted to his plane/flight
being blacklisted from returning to Japan for 5-10 years? YES
Friend #3 (American, caught with illegal drugs, but with a valid work visa that was not expired. He received a suspended sentence and was released in Japan)
detention without a lawyer for up to 21 or 23 days? YES
further incarceration as deemed appropriate by a judge? YES (about 3 months)
fine up to 3 million yen (US$30,000)? NO
deportation at your expense in handcuffs? NO, but was detained at the airport for 3 days for questioning and to fill out paperwork
being blacklisted from returning to Japan for 5-10 years? Not explicitly, but most likely so.
Also, just to note so it's clear, ALL THREE cases were very hard on these people. We visited them in prison (technically not prison but close enough) and if you haven't heard the horror stories about being detained in Japan, rest assured -- they are true and not exagerated. You are essentially in solitary confinement 23.5 hours a day, not allowed to do so much as lie down, exercise, read a book in your own language, speak, or anything else for that matter. The military would be a cakewalk compared to what these people went through. I don't want to get into it here, but let's just say that the system here is very harsh. Not cruel, mind you... But very harsh.
On the other hand, you would have to be pretty unlucky to get tagged for teaching privates illegally... But who knows? Murphy's law, right? |
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