http://www.webjapanese.com/blog/kintaroo Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:05:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "As authorities struggled to keep order, police shot eight people, killing five or six, after gunmen opened fire on a group of contractors traveling across a bridge on their way to make repairs, authorities said." --Today`s Yahoo News on the rescue effort in New Orleans Who would shoot at people trying to rescue and ... http://www.webjapanese.com/blog/kintaroo/index.php/2005/09/15/whats-the-difference-new-orleans-vs-kobe/ Writer Neal Stephenson referred to living in Asia as like stepping into one of the classic comic books, and perhaps that was why so many Westerners ended up settling here. I can relate. Still much of Japan and Asia in general is very exotic. To me my wife is still ... http://www.webjapanese.com/blog/kintaroo/index.php/2005/09/01/japan-is-my-home/ "I'd been playing Call of Cthulhu with(if I remember right) Alex (GM), Emma, "Stan" and Rob Lemos - maybe Lee Gunby was in that session, too... Anyway, it was a pretty bizarrescenario, and I remember it actually creeped me out; I stayed up theentire night reading one of the paperbacks you ... http://www.webjapanese.com/blog/kintaroo/index.php/2005/08/01/when-things-go-bump-in-the-japanese-nighta/ I have one of the greatest jobs in the world. I get paid to do what I love doing. I teach English in Japan. I have always enjoyed meeting and conversing with interesting people, only now I get paid for it. Yet, teaching at English conversation schools ("Eikaiwa") seems to be ... http://www.webjapanese.com/blog/kintaroo/index.php/2005/07/01/in-defense-of-english-teaching/ Moving halfway around the world, to a culture as foreign and difficult to penetrate as Japan`s is difficult for anyone. If you become an English teacher here, you will probably have to deal with a Japanese boss and staff with different cultural values from your own. This can lead to ... http://www.webjapanese.com/blog/kintaroo/index.php/2005/06/01/culture-shock-eikaiwa-teachers-in-japan/ After arriving in Nagoya, I told my friends I would be on radio or TV within the year. I did this partly to spur myself on to do something about it. I worked for Nunoike English School and St. Mary`s College in Nagoya. As well I registered with the best talent agency ... http://www.webjapanese.com/blog/kintaroo/index.php/2005/05/01/play-the-game/ "After reading what they had to say in the forums there, I almost decided to go to Korea, it is so negative. When I did ask, well what schools are good to work for?-no one answered." --A.P., USA--commenting recently on a very popular forum about teaching English in Japan. Many forums are ... http://www.webjapanese.com/blog/kintaroo/index.php/2005/04/01/the-forums-about-teaching-english-in-japan-need-to-take-a-reality-check-2/ Tokyo, Japan One of the great things about being an expatriate in Japan is that there are so many unique opportunities for us here. If you are willing to take the time to go to the audition or job interview, you have a shot at many interesting jobs. As well, ... http://www.webjapanese.com/blog/kintaroo/index.php/2005/03/01/my-trials-tribulations-of-starting-the-tokyo-comedy-club/ Furikome Sagi are the words that describe the crime of impersonating someone on the phone in order to rob the person called, of money. At their state of the art recording studio, the Kawaguchi Gumi branch of the yakuza (Japanese mafia), have a meeting and talk about how they will pull ... http://www.webjapanese.com/blog/kintaroo/index.php/2005/02/01/furikome-sagi-the-superbly-executed-telephone-crime/ "After reading what they had to say in the forums there, I almost decided to go to Korea, it is so negative. When I did ask, well what schools are good to work for?-no one answered."--A.P., USA-- commenting recently on a very popular forum about teaching English in Japan. Many forums ... http://www.webjapanese.com/blog/kintaroo/index.php/2005/01/01/the-forums-about-teaching-english-in-japan-need-to-take-a-reality-check/