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If you change jobs, the same industry but different company, do you need to notify immigration?
Anyone have any recommendations for strawberry flavored things? It’s my friend’s birthday today and she likes strawberry flavored things so I want to get her some. However, I do not like strawberry flavored things, so I don’t know what’s good.
* Is there a way to contact immigration for questions ? We called them but all lines are busy, it doesn’t even ring.
Maybe someone here can help with the question.
I recently applied for PR, but my current spousal visa will expire soon. There will be roughly 8 months between the end of the current visa and the expected answer from PR.
**Shall I apply for a new spousal visa, or a visa extension?**
* Can I even apply for a spousal visa if I already applied for PR (as they are both “similar type” of visa, one being longer than the other)
Anyone here recently receives the HSP visa? I’m trying to find out what the ‘real’ processing times are for this. I’ve applied over 10 days now so I’m assuming their 5-10day statement is mute.
Tried calling them multiple times but they are busy
I think I’m ready to start preparing to change careers.
I’ve never really used LinkedIn or a recruiter. Unfortunately Japanese is enough to get by for daily stuff (yes I’m studying but I’ve barely failed the N3 before)
I really don’t care what I do as long as it pays well and doesn’t work me to death (6 days a week? No thank you)
Anywhere else to start looking? Indeed? I know gaijin pot is just entry level stuff. Nothing there seems to pay well
How is rush hour on the Tokyu Meguro or Tokyo Namboku lines? Not bad or bad?
Does anyone know what happens if a student visa renewal gets denied? How many days do you have to get out of Japan if a renewal is rejected?
Is anyone aware of chain stores (or stores in central Setagaya) still selling individually wrapped スイカバー? We seem to have missed the end of the selling period at the place we usually source them.
I am here again, complaining about my brother who also lives in Japan in the same city as me. I really need some advice, but feel free to skip over my boring extremely long familial problem post.
My brother is an odd one. Child genius, golden boy of my family. Now 30, talks way too much and is an alcoholic. I see him for birthdays (my previous complaint was him expecting me to, among other things, attend a birthday party at his wife’s sister’s house with her husband and their mother and getting angry when I declined. He is always forceful with his wishes.), but not much else. We are on good terms, but I find him increasingly annoying and presumptuous these days.
My long-term partner has always been polite to my brother, but he is introverted and chooses not to attend my brother’s family birthday events with me. My brother always makes snide comments about my boyfriend not coming, him not “making an effort” to get to know my brother and also stereotypes him being a snob from Kyoto. Makes you wonder why my boyfriend would want to visit eh.
But onto the current problem. I found out yesterday that when my boyfriend visited my home country for the first time last year, my brother was extremely rude to him without my knowledge. My family had a little get-together at my parents house. My grandma arrived and everyone hugged her and said hi. I introduced my boyfriend to her and he hugged her. I went to speak to someone else, and without my knowledge, my brother shouted angrily over to my boyfriend, “hey you, grandma is here, why haven’t you greeted her?!” to which my grandma – heart of gold – defended my boyfriend by saying that he did in fact greet warmly and hugged her.
I am absolutely mortified that he spoke rudely to my boyfriend in my family house. I’m mortified that my boyfriend was publicly embarrassed by my brother in front of my family for absolutely no reason after just arriving. I’m mortified that my boyfriend just took it silently and remained polite to my brother for the rest of the trip. I’m mortified that he held onto this information for almost a year before admitting it to me out of not wanting to cause trouble.
He told me this information yesterday during our marriage discussions, citing it as a reason he is wary of marrying me. Explaining that my brother being rude to him on a number of occasions is hurtful and unwelcoming. That he is wary of proceeding to marry into a family he isn’t welcome in. I understand how he feel and I am disgusted. I’m so upset. I knew my brother was weird/selfish/arrogant/self-centred but I had no idea that he had spoken down to my boyfriend so openly.
I want to cut my brother out of my life, but it’s extremely difficult as we both live in Japan and my mother takes solace in the fact we have each other in this foreign country. I don’t want to upset my mother, but I don’t want to disrespect my boyfriend by continuing to spend time with someone who doesn’t respect him. I already decline most invitations, but I find it hard to decline birthdays and have trouble rocking the boat in general and recoil at the notion of confronting my brother about his treatment of my boyfriend (my boyfriend doesn’t want me to say anything).
Sorry that this ended up being so long. If anyone has any advice I would be grateful.
Can you please share your best online sources for practicing for a job interview in Japanese?
Can someone help me come up witha polite response to my boss who wants to do お見舞い but for her to do it she has to come to my house and i don’t want her to.
I just broke my foot last week overseas on holiday and i return to japan this weekend. I told my boss and sent her a doctors note that i wont be able to work for the next month as i need to heal. I understand if she wants to visit me in a hospital but i am allowed to rest at home, and i don’t want to have to clean my house and host for my boss. I feel like she means well but i want to keep my home life and work separate so i would prefer her not to come. Any responses in japanese would be great!