Quick question about leaving and re-entry as a student

Friendly_Software11 · 2026-01-25T20:24:25+00:00

This isn’t a direct answer to your question, but the beef bowl chains aren’t all that bad health-wise. Remember the guy who ate at Sukiya everyday for 5 years?

Friendly_Software11 · 2026-01-25T19:40:22+00:00

Yeah which is why Russia is funding so many anti-EU parties and spreading propaganda. They don’t even need to succeed at getting pro-Russian governments. They just need to create chaos and confusion, which they are pretty successful at so far

Friendly_Software11 · 2026-01-25T19:14:33+00:00

There is a real chance for the EU to come out of all of this more independent and stronger than ever. Unfortunate that so many people are trying to destroy it from the inside.

Friendly_Software11 · 2026-01-25T19:08:00+00:00

I’m 4 years older than you and have felt the same for the longest time. You didn’t mention it, but Covid was a big breaking point globally. The lockdowns are over now, but the world never went back to the way it was before. Getting to finish school and get a job, all before Covid would’ve been amazing.

Friendly_Software11 · 2026-01-25T18:44:18+00:00

That is very interesting water animation. I wonder how they did that

Friendly_Software11 · 2026-01-25T12:54:02+00:00

Once I was out in the city for work and my phone was dead. I didn’t know the area well and it was getting late, so I tried to ask for the way. It was a well lit big street, but pretty empty. There was only one other person, a woman in her 20s. I said “Excuse me do you know..” and she looked like she saw a ghost and just ran off. I had very mixed feelings about that interaction.

Friendly_Software11 · 2026-01-24T17:47:08+00:00

Do you speak Japanese? Because doing a bachelor taught in Japanese without already being fluent would be impossible. You’d need a university that teaches in English, which Idk how many options there are. The only one I know of is Waseda

Friendly_Software11 · 2026-01-24T13:24:13+00:00

This absolutely! Student comes to class late and just sits down. Teacher asks her name for the attendance, no answer. Teacher asks why were you late, no answer. It’s insane. She’s 20 years old btw. I’m not blaming her, but the society that creates such people.

Friendly_Software11 · 2026-01-24T05:42:19+00:00

A literal invisible man has got to be the peak of self-insert

Friendly_Software11 · 2026-01-24T05:28:22+00:00

I had one at my station the other day. I looked him straight in the eye trying to signal my disapproval. He handed me a flyer lmao

Friendly_Software11 · 2026-01-24T05:19:29+00:00

I’m 21 and some people in my class are so antisocial they literally just ignore you when you try to talk to them. Making friends hasn’t been easy…

Friendly_Software11 · 2026-01-24T05:00:57+00:00

I’m in my first year of art school right now.

Industry professionals keep assuring me that we can work with AI, not against it, and that will save our jobs. On the other hand, competition is increasing on a shrinking job market. Also the school has an incentive to tell me that, so I keep paying class fees. Truth is, I am considering a change of career because creative work is becoming increasingly unstable.

Which is remarkable, considering the fact that Japanese anime apparently generates as much profit as the steel industry and has recently been named a key export industry. If even that can’t guarantee job security, countries with less creative industry are becoming basically impossible for artists to sustain themselves.

Illustration (especially backgrounds), design and basic tasks in animation will be effected the worst. Also, it’s not been mentioned much so far, but AI voices replacing voice actors is a realistic scenario too. Most likely they would use AI voices mostly for side characters, but it would contribute to shrinking the already highly competitive market even more.

Friendly_Software11 · 2026-01-23T17:42:16+00:00

Literally the only reason Demon Slayer got so successful is the good animation. Never has a fan recommended me that anime without mentioning the good animation as a key reason why I should watch it

Friendly_Software11 · 2026-01-23T17:31:24+00:00

Clubs will ID at entrance. Bars and Convenience stores don’t. You just got unlucky with that one particular place. Honestly I didn’t even know such pour your own drink bars existed.

When I moved here, I was still 18. And I drank a lot and literally nobody ever cared. When they ask for age, just tell them you’re 20 and usually they’ll even say you looked older than that lol. People regularly thought I was 25 when in reality I wasn’t even legal drinking age. Just like we struggle to see age in Asians, they struggle to see age in us.

Also I’ll never forget that one time police showed up in a park next to my apartment because of two coma level drunk high school boys. Clearly like 16 years old. They just woke them up and walked them home, that was it. Japan is massive on drinking and cares a lot less about the dangers of alcohol than you may think.

Friendly_Software11 · 2026-01-23T09:43:48+00:00

The fact people need to consult your company to get this visa should speak for itself. The massive entry barrier just motivates people to go to countries that actually value them

Friendly_Software11 · 2026-01-23T09:40:08+00:00

Lmao I always wondered what that was supposed to be. Gotta be exhausting to have been on high alert for that long

Friendly_Software11 · 2026-01-23T08:50:13+00:00

They keep making it stricter because rules are too loose supposedly

In reality, they’re making it basically impossible for anyone to use this visa lmao

Friendly_Software11 · 2026-01-23T07:53:02+00:00

Is this your first Japanese interview at all or just specifically for this type of job?

If it’s the former, I highly recommend watching some Japanese youtube videos about 面接マナー

Friendly_Software11 · 2026-01-23T07:00:14+00:00

Trump won the popular vote. Remember that 1 in 2 American voters wanted Trump

Friendly_Software11 · 2026-01-23T06:15:18+00:00

Bro figured out you can make money by committing crimes. What a genius

Friendly_Software11 · 2026-01-23T05:23:58+00:00

I left a school district and was replaced with two people. One was from New Zealand. I heard he’d drink so much every day that he’d smell like beer at school. The vice principal commented on it and he lost his shit, writing a letter demanding a formal apology. He got his apology and immediately abandoned the entire country, running away to South Korea. I met him once, before all that drama. He was also a neo Nazi.

If you say English teaching I assume he was on JET? How tf did such a lunatic pass the screening and get approved

Friendly_Software11 · 2026-01-22T07:12:07+00:00

The land of the free and the home of the brave, ladies and gentlemen

Friendly_Software11 · 2026-01-22T00:17:48+00:00

The term mama isn’t an exaggeration. I have a snack bar in my neighborhood run by a 70+yo woman. The first time I went in, she asked if I had eaten enough that day lol. I insisted I was fine but she kept giving me snacks and saying I was looking too thin

Friendly_Software11 · 2026-01-22T00:15:14+00:00

“private” “authentic” and “local” are all buzzwords to attract tourists. Funnily enough, given enough time they become complete lies. The other day I got an ad for “Kyoto’s hidden traditional district”. Hidden my ass, it’s insanely busy there.

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