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Originally Posted by Umihito
Probably a stupid question, but what kind of school is your school? International university? English language?
I'm guessing it's because they're the most culturally mixed areas, too. California gets Japantown and most of the Anime fests and Japanese tourists and stuff, with East Coast states not far behind.
Of course, that's just my guess, it could be for any reasons.
Ahh I see. For some reason I never pictured them all the way up there. :L
Yes, I do think we should follow that example. It's just too bad about the whole cheap labour thing you said about. :/
It's strange though. I agree that there are increasing numbers going to uni, but I still hear that lots and lots of people are still being turned down after an overcrowded, strenuous selection process. I'm not sure if that's because they're popular universities or not though.
Can you give a source or somewhere where you saw this? I honestly haven''t seen anywhere that's given a number of people with degrees there, so it'll be interesting to read.
A surprising conclusion though. I would have thought that the amount of people there on a spousal visa would be very very low, seems as a marriage takes a lot, lot longer to achieve and more commitment in most cases.
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It's rather obvious. The Nigerian doormen you see in Roppongi and Harajuku are not university educated, few have even high school educations. The Israeli food and souvenir sellers do not have degrees, and quite a few English teachers are also here without degrees.
Western foreigners make less than 1% of the foreign population in Japan, so it's easy to overlook those from Africa or other parts of Asia, and the greater part of the people from these places have no degree of any type. Some stay on special visa for service industry workers, others came as students or tourists, and are not in Japan legally (a few times a week a large bus full of overstayers leaves from the detention center in Shinagawa and heads to Narita to be deported).
As for the Nigerians, they are all married to Japanese citizens, and the same is true of many others. When I was at the drivers license center taking my driving test, most of the other test-takers were also married to Japanese men or women. None that I was aware of were unversity educated, a few were Filipino housewives, one was an American soldier with a Japanese wife, while others were dependents of mixed families.