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 Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 5:48 am
inuyasha_n_kagome_rox142 bakahito I know that I have to get a visa renewal for my student visa just about every year and renew my test waviers (I'm still undergrad but the rules are different grad students). Visas over 1 year with renewal periods are rarely given out because of the cost and the fact that immigration in Japan is pegged at one precent of the population instead of various economic, population, and other factors like in other countries. Also, don't forget that a long term study in Japan means that you have to prove that you have a significant amount of ready cash in you or your paretns possesion and the longer you stay, the more exponentially expensive it gets. Unfortunately the, "i'll earn money when I get there" choice isn't an option. God, I love Japanese immigration rules stressed D= Wow, you're still undergrad? xD I thought it's a general rule that only the postgrads on government scholarships live like kings. The rest... get around somehow. Well it usually isn't possible but lets just say I got to to know some people at my previous job wink But now that the US government is forcing the J-goverment to pay for the Marines to be moved to Gwam it looks like I'm being cut off crying
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Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 7:17 pm
.What did people in the japan wore? ...x
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Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:33 am
+BrokenDolls+ .What did people in the japan wore? ...x I believe that you mean "wear"? But, they wore uh... You-fuku (Western Style Clothes). What else would they wear? Gi and hakama? Kimono? That ended about the time of the Meiji reformation. Though, Geisha and very famous people still wear the Kimono/Yukata, it's still rare to see anyone wearing it. I also went to Japan, and I got back a week ago yesterday. the site for my pix is... take a look at my journal...
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Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:07 pm
Kalei Kainani Hm... My friend and I are planning to go on an exchange trip to Japan in about 1 1/2 years. Are there any other necessities that we should know about? Like school, sites (i.e. temples), or even the people? *coughrapistscough* < main concern that just popped up a few days ago. OH!!! I really want to do the exchange student to Japan thing but I don't know anything about it. Like how to get signed up, how long and where and everything. My mom said maybe if I can find some info but... I don't know if I can. So I'm packing JAPANESE AND KANJI into my brain!! biggrin I hope I can go.
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Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 7:22 am
megaman2040 Though, Geisha and very famous people still wear the Kimono/Yukata, it's still rare to see anyone wearing it. ...unless you happen to be attending a summer festival. Then you'll see yukata everywhere. whee
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Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:29 am
My friend said in Japan some vending mechines have cell phones is that true? and do they actually work?
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Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 4:42 pm
bakahito Aiko_589 bakahito inuyasha_n_kagome_rox142 bakahito What sort of exchange? Year and a half visa don`t really exist unless you some how get the immigration control people bed over backwards for you. Plus, high school exchanges and college exchanges are always for 10 months of less as per the standard ryugakusei rules. I can tell you all sorts of things about schools but at lot depends on where you want to go and what you want to do. To add, private schools often have year-long exchanges. Year and a half does seem to stretch limits, but especially if you are from a country that already has visa waive rights, you can always reapply once in Japan and stand a fair chance of extension approval. I know that I have to get a visa renewal for my student visa just about every year and renew my test waviers (I'm still undergrad but the rules are different grad students). Visas over 1 year with renewal periods are rarely given out because of the cost and the fact that immigration in Japan is pegged at one precent of the population instead of various economic, population, and other factors like in other countries. Also, don't forget that a long term study in Japan means that you have to prove that you have a significant amount of ready cash in you or your paretns possesion and the longer you stay, the more exponentially expensive it gets. Unfortunately the, "i'll earn money when I get there" choice isn't an option. God, I love Japanese immigration rules stressed when you can, apply for permanent residence! you are 20 right? since you have been here few year hae a better chance. then few more year and you can naturalize! of course,this all require money. Actually I have to be here for 10 years before I can apply for residency and naturalization isnt`t usually an option for non-refugee status visa holders. Recently it became a lot harder to apply for residency because of new "anti-terrorism" immigration rules rolleyes get married to a japanese :p i'm joking of course, but having a japanese boyfriend/girlfriend is very helpful! i am currently living in nagoya city with him heart if we get married one day, i will automatically get a visa, but for now, the max i can stay in japan is 3 months. crying japanese immigration rules are very very strict, everytime i come here i have to go through a lot of papers xp (like all the other people on this forum who travelled here)
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Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 4:43 pm
xia.pao My friend said in Japan some vending mechines have cell phones is that true? and do they actually work? as far as i know, you can't buy cell phones in vending machines. but you can in convenience stores, that's where i bought mine (which is only a prepaid card phone). maybe i'm wrong about the vending machines but... honestly i've never seen one^^
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Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 3:50 am
Hehehe did you go anywhere else than Tokyo and Kanagawa? (Wait, is Yokohama in Kanagawa....? O.o;;;; wink
Anyways, was it different from what you expected? Because there are soo. many. people with brown/blonde/whatever the shade is hair and make-up and American looking people out there.... lol
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