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07-13-2008, 01:16 AM
Ok no matter what family member hacks up what other family member or the ignorance that is systemic in the Japanese people the one thing that is truly positive in Japan is the lack of any serious drug problem.
I am not saying that there are no drugs in Japan but there is not a problem here like there is in the western world. I am from Canada and after living in Japan for a few years and then returning home I was reverse culture shocked at how normal it was considered by almost everyone to do drugs. And how many families are destroyed by this plague on society. The average Japanese person has never even seen marijuana and most who have saw it when they where abroad. So this results in a society that does not have street gang wars with teenagers shooting each other over “turf”. Tokyo is one of the biggest cities in the world and yet I can honestly say there is no where I’m afraid to go at any time of the day or night. I wish I could say that about Toronto, Vancouver or and major city in the USA. As far a racism goes it does exist here and it does get to me sometimes but it has never put me in danger unlike my one black friend in Toronto who told me “ You’re a nice guy but you wouldn’t last 2 minutes in my neighborhood” Japanese people are more afraid of what they don’t know rather they hating. And they generally don’t what to deal with foreigners because of language problems rather than race problems. In Canada nothing pisses me off more then immigrants who move there and try to change things to make it more like their home country. I always say “if your home country was so great why did you move here?” So how could I move to Japan and expect the people here to change to be like westerners. And now nothing pisses me off more then people who move here and expect the Japanese to be more western to them I say “GO HOME IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT” I have lived here for 6 years I am also a business owner, married to a wonderful Japanese woman, and own property. I have realized that you can’t fight the system and if you play by their rules life is not that hard here. But if you come here and expect it to be like home it’s a real up hill battle. 
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07-13-2008, 03:38 AM
The key to making money as an English teacher is to get a full-time job with as few hours as possible. This maximizes your opportunity to teach privately, for 3,000 yen an hour (was 5,000 when I did it, in the bubble days).
At NOVA, which is now bust, the teachers worked long hours, so the hourly pay worked out to something like 1,700 yen per class.
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07-13-2008, 04:44 AM
Point one: did Billyswierd say he worked passing out fliers and stepping in front of people? Of course people whisper that stuff at him. He's not in an office but jumping in front of others and trying to force them to take a flyer. I say all kinds of garbage to those people as annoying as they are.
Point two: Japan has TONS of drugs. Maybe not as much as the states, but they're not open like the states, either. Every young person knew where to get them. The biggest group of drugs users in Japan are housewives and taxi drivers. Methamphetamines or speed, the drug of choice in Japan. Marijuana isn't as popular. Speed fits the culture better. The Yakuza are the biggest movers of Ice, meth dirivitive, in the world. Factories were in north Korea and moved to China. The governments help the Yakuza manufacture it andt hey move it. The Japanese invented methamphetimines during the war and gave it to their troops to keep them fired up. It allows people to keep working and, great for dieters, suppresses the appitite.
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07-13-2008, 01:22 PM
No drugs now thats BS, lol, i've smoked weed almost twice a week since i been here and with differant people aswell. Hell everytime i goto a bar people want to invite me back to their place for mata-fana and drinks. The 3rd day i was here i was invited up to some guys studio apartment across the street from dotonbori who wanted me to smoke crack with his gf and him? Even though its red hair weed (real crap quality) They still have a lot of weed over here lol and its not hard to get XD. As for Ice/Crack etc. They are extremly easy to get you can walk down a sleezy street and head into a titty bar and ask them for it and they will give it to you.
And injections are actually becomming and epidemic over here theres posters all over trains stations saying dont do drugs and what drugs do etc. I was talking to a bartender in Shinsai-bashi the other night and he told me that a lot of his friends inject and one of them almost lost and arm because he got some infection from it i can't remember the name of it. Also i don't get upset when i can't change things over here (not that i need to japans pretty much soaking up american culture and dissolving its own quite rapidly) i don't want to change things over here if i did i would have just stayed in my own country i love how most things are differant to my country but i do get upset when i don't get treated equally and get looked down apon. *EDIT* infact most of the reason i came over here was because everything was so differant and it was whole new learning curb for me.
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The drug PROBLEM isn't anywhere near the crisis it is in many parts of the US, so comparing how Japan's drug issues and America's drug issues are completely different. No one said Japan has absolutely no illegal drugs. Where do you live billysweird?
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