Comments by "" (@earlysda) on "Are Japanese Countrysides Welcoming To Foreigners?" video.

  1. But it is often made difficult to live in by the people there, and without a car, is hard to get around in.
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  2. I had private lessons at a small language school, and it was great as it was 100% tailored for me. Rural Japan is nice, quiet, and people are a bit friendly to tourists, but once you live there, you find out quickly that you are to follow everything they say or your life will be made difficult.
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  3.  @VagnerSh Vagner, If you are getting paid in foreign currency, and able to live in Japan, you are living well!
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  4. No tattoos.
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  5. Very few of the foreigners in this video live in the countryside. People treat you differently if they see you as a visitor than they do if they see you as a resident.
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  6. It's great if you are a visitor and have access to a car. If you live there and no car - it can be made very difficult.
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  7.  @VagnerSh That's nice, Vagner. It's just that it is hard to find work in rural Japan. Pay is low too, but that's everywhere in Japan.
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  8. BINGO!
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  9. You might be glowing green all the time!
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  10.  @Theiscariotsin Not only will your tattoos not be allowed in some places in Japan, your self-satisfied demeanor will stick out like a sore thumb.
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  11.  @getting2knowjapan eigokobo, let me help you with the math. Correcting for my exchange mistake (should be 1,488usd/month), the average starting salary for university graduates in Japan is exactly 30% of the 4,905/month starting salary of ones in the U.S. . Also, non-skilled workers in many parts of America can get around 15usd/hour. So even after going to college for 4 years in Japan, new graduates can only get 59% the salary of a cashier or burger flipper in America. . I've told my students who are getting a nursing degree in Japan to learn English, graduate, pass the proper nursing exams in the U.S., and earn up to 4 times what they can in Japan.
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  12. If you like neighbors who enjoy telling you how to live your life, the Japanese countryside can be very nice!
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  13. There's lots of other "shocks".
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  14. Osaka over Tokyo any day.
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  15. Speak a lot. Listen a lot. Read a lot.
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  16. Work in Japan? Just this morning I read where the average starting salary of a university graduate in Japan is a whopping 220,000jpy/month (1,353usd)!
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  17. A career? In Japan? Just this morning I read where the average starting salary of a university graduate in Japan is a whopping 220,000jpy/month (1,353usd)!
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  18.  @rsmith02 rsmith, you seem to have missed scruffy's intent.
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  19. Cool! I like Wakayama, but it is dying off...
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