#living in japan

[auxryn]

And diagnosed with anxiety only 10 years later!

Source: Aichi Adventures

#Aichi-Adventures #worries #public transit #living in japan

[nipahnan]

#cute aesthetic #kawaii aesthetic #kawaiicore #nipahnan #otakucore #pastel pink #pinkcore #my picture repost = credit #animecore #japanesefood #kawaiifood #conbinifood #Japan #living in Japan #strawberrycake #🍓 #🍰

[thewoolymoose]

New Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Wafer Packs just dropped! We love to see some Part 2 love

#japan #living in japan #anime #anime and manga #manga #jojo #collectables #jojo no kimyou na bouken #jojo part 1 #jojo part 2 #dio brando #jonathan joestar #joseph joestar

[japanwords]

How to REALLY make friends in Japan

On breaking out of the "gaijin bubble"

Recently I published my second article on Medium, in the publication Japonica (if you're interested in Japanese culture, check them out, there's some excellent stuff there).

My article is about a subject very dear to my heart. Namely, making friends in a new city.

More specifically, making friends in Japan. It takes a while, but it can be done! In the article I explain how.

#japanese language #japanese culture #japan #japanese #language learning #japanese studyblr #studying languages #japanese langblr #japanese life #living in japan #expat life

[sleepy-cephalopod-studies]

Accidentally had a bunch of parents and kids at my local culture festival concerned for me a few weeks ago lol

So my junior high held their culture festival and I got to order some food for the two days I was there. You write what you want and send the money in an envelope to the vice principal, and I got tickets for my menu items. I saw on the menu that they had コーンパン (literally corn bread), and my Southern US self got very hyped because I didn't even know they HAD cornbread in Japan! But they seem to have corn dishes in a lot of cuisine, so I thought it made sense. So I order corn bread.

I get my bento bag and am expecting the bread of my childhood, cornbread. Warm, fluffy, like a brownie but made of cornmeal in all its redneck and indigenous-origins glory.

My friends and fellow hoes, I did not receive cornbread. I received...Japanese cornbread.

Now on its face, I like the three components of this food. I like corn. Of course I do, I'm American, we put corn in everything. I like mayo. I love bread. But when you are a Texan, you're already missing some cultural aspects of your home like its cuisine, and you are expecting CORNBREAD, and you get this?

I spent a solid thirty seconds just blinking at this corn bun and I looked so dejected that multiple students near me asked if I was okay. I live in a first-person perspective like everyone else but I imagine my face was similar to this:

#japan #alt #living in japan #life in japan #teaching english in japan

[theopalempress]

#sakura season #sakura tree #sakura blossom #The Opal Empress #Tokyo #tokyo aesthetic #living in tokyo #tokyo vlog #Japan #Living in Japan #tokyo city #japanese temple #japanese garden #japanese shrine #shrine #temple #city temple

[city-cost]

Dusk along the "sando" approach to Taishakuten Temple in the city of Katsushika, Tokyo.

#photo #city #urban #scenery #street #somewhere in Japan #my city #dusk #tumblr japan #living in japan #wander #sando #temple #東京 #nihon #nippon #日本

[laulujaparatiisista]

Man the person living in the room next to me has the mightiest snores I've ever heard

#sharehouse #living in japan

[tofuingho]

I got in trouble because I overslept and was late for a zoom meeting.

Keep in mind that I'm basically an English tutor. My regular work day doesn't start until 4:30 pm and the zoom meeting was scheduled for noon.

I usually don't even get out of bed until 11:30, but my manager is suddenly expecting me to get up at 10:30, go to work, sit through a 3 hour meeting, have a lunch break, and then do my regular work until 8:30.

I do not get paid enough for that. (Because of the lowered value of the Japanese Yen, I currently make around $1,700 a month.)

#japan #living in japan #eikaiwa #work suuuuucks

[under-wrenovation]

I know speaking to me must be a royal pain in the ass so I try to learn more and make it as easy as possible but DAMN IT

Time to throw myself at textbooks till I breathe japanese I suppose.

#language learning #japanese language #living in japan #japanese #japan #arubaito

[dunatdan]

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted anything here

I’ve recently moved to Osaka, Japan to take some short course and I thought to make a journal out of it

I love tumblr archiving systems so much so i will post them here, i know people who follow this account didnt follow me for travel journal. But i hope you can enjoy it!

#osaka #living in japan #journal #dan’s osaka log

[nipahnan]

realistically , how is it like living in japan ? i am a POC so our experiences would definitely be different .. but are you fluent in the language ? how is everyday life for you ? do you have a job there or remote work overseas in the US ? sorry for all the questions !! i'm hoping to move to japan myself eventually . ��

Aaah I’m so happy to finally get a question, I’ve been waiting to be able to ramble about myself on here thehe :) This is gonna be a long one, so I’m sorry in advance, but I want to try and be as transparent as possible!♡

I don’t live in Tokyo, yet I have a bunch of friends who live there and who talk about their experiences very openly, so I’ll also talk about things they went through and that they observed. In general people of course need to make sure not to romanticize a country. Japan is a country like any other and a lot of people forget that. I’ve been interested in Japan since I was around 11 years old and I came to Japan knowing about it’s good and bad sides because I did research about it for years. So coming here with very realistic expectations and not thinking I’m gonna live in a fairytale, I’d say it’s great so far! :)

Of course I’ve only been here for 1 year now, but it’s definitely so much better than living in Germany. It just suits my lifestyle and general personal behavior so much better. I never felt connected to people in Germany with the way they behave and so I’m having it way easier here. I definitely aim to obtain permanent residence status one day because I really believe that I want to enjoy my life here. I definitely feel like foreigners who move to Tokyo have it so much easier than people who move somewhere else in Japan, because there’s so much more English writing or people who try and speak English since it’s full of tourists too, so it’s easier to navigate without learning any Japanese. When I first landed in Japan I literally only spoke English and I was kinda shocked since I didn’t expect that at all tbh. I actually know a few people who have lived in Japan for years without learning any Japanese and it kinda baffles me sometimes lol. I definitely recommend coming here with at least some basic Japanese and then trying to gradually learn more, that’s how I did it and it’s been working very well. Im not fluent at all yet, but im able to have conversations and I’m learning every day and that’s what counts :)

I also know a lot of people who realized how fake Tokyo can be and decide to move away from it quickly because of them getting mental problems or their mental problems worsening, considering how awful mental help in Japan is. They’re feeling very lonely, overworked, and even get bullied. It definitely depends on the workplace of course. But as long as you make sure to make genuine friendships and realize that Japanese people can be extremely blunt and that their behavior is overall quite different, you’ll have no problem with them. There’s a lot of rules and there’s no way you’re always able to remember them, so I wouldn’t worry too much about it. Definitely try and act according to how they act and you will be welcomed with open arms I’d say :)

I currently don’t have a job because I got hit with a very hard illness right after 3 months of living here which resulted in me almost dying that I’m still recovering from. So I didn’t have time to work with how many times I was in the hospital, yet I’m having an interview soon and I’ll hopefully be able to start work in the next month if everything works out :)

I have a spouse visa after finally marrying my partner that I’ve been with for 4 years, so that made immigrating here way easier for me of course and I definitely realize that I was very lucky to get here that way. I only had to wait 15 minutes and immediately had my visa, meanwhile a lot of people say how long they had to wait because they had a different visa and of course because the Tokyo immigration is so much fuller than the one in Nagoya.

Everyday life is very chill, it’s very quiet so as a person who is very easily irritated and overwhelmed by loud noises it’s so much better for my mental health. yet again I don’t live in Tokyo and in a very tiny town (13.11 km² big lmao) so I have to drive to Nagoya for some of the „fun“ parts.

Now for some of the VERY annoying parts.

Stares. People stare at you ALL the time. Even tho I’m white, they love staring at me like I’m some alien because I have blonde hair and stick out like a sore thumb here in my city where there’s such a tiny amount of foreigners(basically 0 lol) I’ve noticed that people usually say that old people are kind of rude to them and how nice young people are, yet for me it’s the complete opposite at times. Old people, especially old women, love randomly talking to me and are generally very nice to me. There’s this older lady who works at my local family mart and she is sooo nice to me, always giving me compliments and everything, she is so cute♡ Meanwhile young people love staring and making fun of me because they often think I don’t understand them. I get comments like „she looks cute but she’s kinda fat.“ „do you think she even understands Japanese?“ and they giggle all the time. Sometimes they also take pictures of me in the train and it feels very rude. As someone who never stood out in her hometown and always trying her best to not get any attention, it definitely hurts to suddenly hear comments like that and basically feeling like a zoo animal at times. Yet I knew this would happen so I was prepared for it and I know I just shouldn’t care about comments like that. Now idk how bad it is in Tokyo but I can imagine it’s not as awful since it’s way more diverse? Yet you still hear stories about how this also happens very often to POC and sometimes even white foreigners who just happen to have a different type of style. So it’s definitely something to keep in mind.

Also about the topic of getting called fat. Japanese people LOVE to call you fat in your face. As soon as you’re over 50kg no matter your height they will probably consider you fat. One time I had to state my weight at the hospital for a scan and the lady literally yelled „…kg???“ and then proceeded to giggle to her male coworker. Considering that coming from the hospital staff, it was definitely shocking. Especially since I was literally about to die that day? I was so shocked and felt so bad considering I gained 10kg during that time only due to steroid medication which I literally had no control over. So I’d definitely say it’s another thing to be prepared for.

Their clothing style is also pretty different from the west, you’ll see a lot of long skirts and blouses or sweaters. Tight fitting clothes or clothes showing of a lot of skin aren’t as common here and it definitely makes you stick out. One time I was wearing a tank top under a jacket and didn’t close the jacket all the way while going to get takeout and some school boys sitting at the table loudly made a comment about how giant my boobs are and didn’t stop staring and it made me insanely uncomfortable to which I immediately just closed my jacket. Most uncomfortable encounter I’ve ever had and made me stop wearing shirts that show cleavage lol.

Also there’s of course a lot of sexual harassment here, especially in Tokyo. There’s literally guys just staring at 🌽 that you can see in the reflection of the train window (I even saw that in person one time, absolutely insane) or just straight up jerkin off. They literally have posters at my train stations telling women to pay attention to their skirts because there could be someone taking pictures of your panties. So if you intend to wear short skirts you always have to wear shorts under it if you don’t want some pervert to take a panty shot of you. At this point they even have hidden cameras in their shoes which is just insane to me…

Overall, don’t believe most things those tiktok or YouTube videos from tourists tell you. They often times don’t have any knowledge about Japan or how it is to live here, often give misinformation or are just straight up romanticizing this country to the max. All my friends and me even absolutely hate these travel vloggers at this point because of how much bs they’re saying :,)

To sum it up: if you have enough knowledge about the country and the people, prepare yourself as much as possible and realize that it’s very different from what you’re probably used to, and most of all, that it’s just another country that you’ll be living in, you’ll definitely love it here! :)

I definitely could tell even more because I had so many crazy encounters already and so many cool places to talk about, but I think I’ve been talking long enough now :D

Hope my ramble was a bit helpful for you（╹◡╹）♡

#nipahnan #ramble #Personal #Q&A💕 #live in Japan #Japan #living in Japan #q&a

[thewoolymoose]

The Kyoto JJK students x Desserts is not the collab I saw coming 😂

#japan #anime #anime and manga #manga #living in japan #gacha community #gachapon #jjk #aoi todo #kokichi muta #mai zenin #noritoshi kamo #kasumi miwa #momo nishimiya #desserts #mechamaru

[japanwords]

The Unique Challenges of Renting in Japan — Part 3

Part 3: Dealing with application process

Do you love bureaucracy? Do you love getting hit with weird little charges that no-one told you about before?

If so, why not try renting an apartment in Japan?

All joking aside, Japanese apartments are generally great. If you're planning on staying in Japan for the long-haul I'd recommend renting. It probably will take longer than you're used to though, so to warn other ex-pats I put together this how-to guide on Medium. It ended up being so long that the publishers split it into 3 parts. Here's the last part.

#japanese language #japanese culture #japan #japanese langblr #living in japan #japanese life #expat life #expat #japanese

[sergioguymanproust]

Dinner at the Zuto izakaya this evening.To end on a sweet note I ordered the orange mousse and roasted barley tea.A delicious meal at a very relaxing place, friendly staff and well priced dinner. Words and pic by Sergio GuymanProust.

#traveling in japan #living in japan #izakaya dinner in tarumi #words and pics by sergio guymanproust. #fresh sushi and sashimi #japanese dessert #Orange mousse. #my photography #japanese culture

[theopalempress]

The Opal Empress

#japanese nature #nature #trees #japanese trees #forest #city forest #Japanese forest #woods #tokyo forest #the opal empress #tokyo #japan #tokyo city #living in tokyo #living in japan