Entering international school in Japan?
Been thinking, how do you enter an international school in Japan exactly? Do you have to have parents who work there? or is that just to make sure that tuitions are paid on time? Is it possible to just waltz in and apply for a foreigner? ppl say that expats are only ones allowed to go there, but I can't see how since expats are defined as anyone who lives in a foreign country.
Studying Abroad - 1 Answers
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In Kobe anyone can enter...however there are TONS of Japanese who want to send their kids there so the price is high and the waiting list is long.
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Monday, October 24, 2011
Sunday, October 16, 2011
how long is school in japan and china
how long is school in japan and china ?
the school hours! like from 7am to 2 pm or something like that!
Japan - 3 Answers
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Totally crazy, right? Count at least 10-12 hours of studying every day. No wonder Japans suicide rate is so high :/ http://educationjapan.org/jguide/school_system.html
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Japanese kids spend a HUGE amount of time in school and sometimes even go to tutors after dinner. That doesn't count commute times. They also have more days of school than in the US. Japan has a very low teenage pregnancy rate and I think it's because they just don't have time to get into trouble. After school activities usually last until about 6pm. When I was teaching English, they would have an extra hour of class time before going home to do homework.
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Regular school hours in major cities in both countries are from 7 or 8 am to around 4 pm. However, and this is a big "however", the majority of Japanese and Chinese students attend supplementary classes in the evening. These supplementary classes usually help to prepare students for university or high-school entrance exams (in Japan and China, students need to take exams to enter high school as well as university). 1. Japan: In Japan, evening classes are mostly run by private institutions called "juku" which can be rather large in scale. Attendance is voluntary but students are often pressured to attend either by their parents or the need to do well on university or high-school entrance exams. Many Japanese students go to juku classes for a few hours every night of the week. A wide variety of courses are offered in the juku, ranging from the standard exam preparation courses to English conversation classes and musical instrument lessons. Additionally, many private schools in Japan require students to stay for 2 hours after regular hours for extracurricular activities like clubs, sports and martial arts. Hence, the weekday schedule of a typical Japanese high school student might be something like this: 8am - 4pm: Classes at school 4pm - 6pm: Clubs and sports at school 6pm - 7pm: Time for a quick dinner 7pm - 10pm: Juku classes 11pm: Back at home to do homework. After midnight: Time for 5 to 6 hours of sleep. 2. China: In China, supplementary classes are often run by the schools themselves and attendance can be mandatory at the more elite schools. Classes can often run until midnight and it is not uncommon for students to get only 4 hours of sleep each night in the last year of high school because they spend so much time preparing for exams (the situation in Japan and South Korea is similar, but China has a lot more people and not so many universities so the competition is arguably more intense in China). Institutions similar to the Japanese "juku" also exist in China, but they are on a smaller scale and known as buxishe or buxiban (literally "tutorial institution" or "tutorial class"). It's quite common for parents to send elementary school children for lots of classes at buxishe, sometimes as early as 6 in the morning. Finally, China and other communist countries (like North Korea and the former Soviet Union) have government-run "children's palaces", which are centres for extracurricular activities including music, art and drama. Thus, children who want to become performers in the future will spend most of their time at the children's palace.
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the school hours! like from 7am to 2 pm or something like that!
Japan - 3 Answers
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Totally crazy, right? Count at least 10-12 hours of studying every day. No wonder Japans suicide rate is so high :/ http://educationjapan.org/jguide/school_system.html
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Japanese kids spend a HUGE amount of time in school and sometimes even go to tutors after dinner. That doesn't count commute times. They also have more days of school than in the US. Japan has a very low teenage pregnancy rate and I think it's because they just don't have time to get into trouble. After school activities usually last until about 6pm. When I was teaching English, they would have an extra hour of class time before going home to do homework.
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Regular school hours in major cities in both countries are from 7 or 8 am to around 4 pm. However, and this is a big "however", the majority of Japanese and Chinese students attend supplementary classes in the evening. These supplementary classes usually help to prepare students for university or high-school entrance exams (in Japan and China, students need to take exams to enter high school as well as university). 1. Japan: In Japan, evening classes are mostly run by private institutions called "juku" which can be rather large in scale. Attendance is voluntary but students are often pressured to attend either by their parents or the need to do well on university or high-school entrance exams. Many Japanese students go to juku classes for a few hours every night of the week. A wide variety of courses are offered in the juku, ranging from the standard exam preparation courses to English conversation classes and musical instrument lessons. Additionally, many private schools in Japan require students to stay for 2 hours after regular hours for extracurricular activities like clubs, sports and martial arts. Hence, the weekday schedule of a typical Japanese high school student might be something like this: 8am - 4pm: Classes at school 4pm - 6pm: Clubs and sports at school 6pm - 7pm: Time for a quick dinner 7pm - 10pm: Juku classes 11pm: Back at home to do homework. After midnight: Time for 5 to 6 hours of sleep. 2. China: In China, supplementary classes are often run by the schools themselves and attendance can be mandatory at the more elite schools. Classes can often run until midnight and it is not uncommon for students to get only 4 hours of sleep each night in the last year of high school because they spend so much time preparing for exams (the situation in Japan and South Korea is similar, but China has a lot more people and not so many universities so the competition is arguably more intense in China). Institutions similar to the Japanese "juku" also exist in China, but they are on a smaller scale and known as buxishe or buxiban (literally "tutorial institution" or "tutorial class"). It's quite common for parents to send elementary school children for lots of classes at buxishe, sometimes as early as 6 in the morning. Finally, China and other communist countries (like North Korea and the former Soviet Union) have government-run "children's palaces", which are centres for extracurricular activities including music, art and drama. Thus, children who want to become performers in the future will spend most of their time at the children's palace.
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Saturday, October 8, 2011
Would it be weird to bring a bento to lunch in high school not japan
Would it be weird to bring a bento to lunch in high school not japan?
Pretend I'm Asian but not Japanese
Other - Society & Culture - 1 Answers
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Youd look a bit strange, and if you aren't Japanese, to those who actually know the culture will think you are a poser. But if you like bento boxes then go ahead.
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Pretend I'm Asian but not Japanese
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Youd look a bit strange, and if you aren't Japanese, to those who actually know the culture will think you are a poser. But if you like bento boxes then go ahead.
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Saturday, October 1, 2011
Can a high school girl in Japan have a job at 17
Can a high school girl in Japan have a job at 17?
I'm moving to Japan for one year soon, and living with a host family. It's in the city though, and I don't want to put any strain on their living. I'll be in my senior year of high school there, and I'll be 17 for half the year, and 18 for the other half. Is it possible for me to get a part time job while I'm there at the age of 17? Or do I need to wait until I'm 18? Because someone asked, this is what I look like. I would think there's nothing offensive about me that would prevent me from getting a job.... http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/3581/pic2su3.jpg
Japan - 5 Answers
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can show your picture? before i answer you =P i'm from Europe and i live in Osaka
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Part time job is allowed for a foreign students studying in Japan. I am not quite sure how many hours but it may be about 20 hours per week or something. I am afraid it is not easy to find a job unless you can speak Japanese fluently. Furthermore, for high school students, there are not many options. You'll find only McDonald's sales staff or similar. I do not think your host family expects you to work, so why not study hard and enjoy high school life, and that's what they expect I believe.
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Anyone who has Japanese citizenship can work full-time at the age of 16, but usually they are only allowed part-tme job at high schools. If you come to Japan as an wxchange student, I don't think you can work. If you find job here after graduating schools, you can work full-time. But you still need work visa I think. This is as far as I know I have suggested above.
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♡According to the MOFA site, if you have a 1 year General visa; Precollege Student *; 1 year or 6 months, this falls under the "Statuses of residence not permitting work." You may want to check the type of visa YOU will have to make sure. Take a look: http://www.mofa.go.jp/j_info/visit/visa/04.html#b1b If you'd like to check the types of visas that PERMIT you to work, look here: http://www.mofa.go.jp/j_info/visit/visa/04.html#b1a You can check the MOFA site directly here: http://www.mofa.go.jp/j_info/visit/visa/ ～In my opinion I doubt that you'll be "putting any strain" on the host family. If that were the case I doubt that they would participate in the program. MOST all jobs in Japan require that you be fluent in Japanese, even at McDonald's. If you want to work, you should secure a job FIRST, get the working visa and you'll be set. I would just enjoy the student exchange program for the year. It's a great chance, (*^o^*)～why work? Hope this helps! Good luck and enjoy your time in Japan!♡ BTW, your looks have nothing to do with it, it's all about the visa.(^_-)-☆
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Yes, you may work part time .BUT it also depends on your host family.They may not want you to work.There is a lot of face saving to be observed in Japan. If you were staying with me I would think it will be a plus but again I am not Japanese. They still have is WHAT WILL THE NEIGHBORS THINK.Just to be on the safe side and cause no problem with your host family.Please check this out with the organizers of your home stay project
I'm moving to Japan for one year soon, and living with a host family. It's in the city though, and I don't want to put any strain on their living. I'll be in my senior year of high school there, and I'll be 17 for half the year, and 18 for the other half. Is it possible for me to get a part time job while I'm there at the age of 17? Or do I need to wait until I'm 18? Because someone asked, this is what I look like. I would think there's nothing offensive about me that would prevent me from getting a job.... http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/3581/pic2su3.jpg
Japan - 5 Answers
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can show your picture? before i answer you =P i'm from Europe and i live in Osaka
2 :
Part time job is allowed for a foreign students studying in Japan. I am not quite sure how many hours but it may be about 20 hours per week or something. I am afraid it is not easy to find a job unless you can speak Japanese fluently. Furthermore, for high school students, there are not many options. You'll find only McDonald's sales staff or similar. I do not think your host family expects you to work, so why not study hard and enjoy high school life, and that's what they expect I believe.
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Anyone who has Japanese citizenship can work full-time at the age of 16, but usually they are only allowed part-tme job at high schools. If you come to Japan as an wxchange student, I don't think you can work. If you find job here after graduating schools, you can work full-time. But you still need work visa I think. This is as far as I know I have suggested above.
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♡According to the MOFA site, if you have a 1 year General visa; Precollege Student *; 1 year or 6 months, this falls under the "Statuses of residence not permitting work." You may want to check the type of visa YOU will have to make sure. Take a look: http://www.mofa.go.jp/j_info/visit/visa/04.html#b1b If you'd like to check the types of visas that PERMIT you to work, look here: http://www.mofa.go.jp/j_info/visit/visa/04.html#b1a You can check the MOFA site directly here: http://www.mofa.go.jp/j_info/visit/visa/ ～In my opinion I doubt that you'll be "putting any strain" on the host family. If that were the case I doubt that they would participate in the program. MOST all jobs in Japan require that you be fluent in Japanese, even at McDonald's. If you want to work, you should secure a job FIRST, get the working visa and you'll be set. I would just enjoy the student exchange program for the year. It's a great chance, (*^o^*)～why work? Hope this helps! Good luck and enjoy your time in Japan!♡ BTW, your looks have nothing to do with it, it's all about the visa.(^_-)-☆
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Yes, you may work part time .BUT it also depends on your host family.They may not want you to work.There is a lot of face saving to be observed in Japan. If you were staying with me I would think it will be a plus but again I am not Japanese. They still have is WHAT WILL THE NEIGHBORS THINK.Just to be on the safe side and cause no problem with your host family.Please check this out with the organizers of your home stay project
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