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there are 2 main ways to get your foot in the proverbial "PR door:" * 3+ years married to a Japanese citizen * 10+ years working (preferably without too much job-hopping) You need 1 of the above. They told me not to bother applying without one of those,...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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googling adventures, you may also stumble upon a free solution known as MouseFix. I used to use this; however, it stopped working come Snow Leopard. The buttons are too damn small. Why are the close, minimize, and maximize buttons (red, green, and...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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to visit with everyone. The 3-Hour Lunchbreak Something changed in the Japan pension system recently so that any foreigners working over 30 hours now have to pay into the system. This really sucks for AEON employees cuz it majorly reduces our...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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I gave myself a home project--upgrade / reorganize my home studio so that it is both more comfortable and more like a proper man-cave. As a man-cave cannot be complete without a game console, a PS3 was high on the agenda since my wife commandeered the...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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Since Blackberry is essentially dead in Japan, I face a pesky challenge of getting Japanese text input to work on Blackberries I receive from our head office. Unfortunately, several other guides on the web explaining how to manually install BB firmware...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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My company's firewall enforces NTLMv2 proxy authentication, which kinda sucks for some Linux hosts since I can't pass that authentication directly on the command line. Maybe I'm dumb, but every command format I found didn't work. But this did work......
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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NOTE: Yes, I know that Netflix is now available in Japan. However, the services I explain below have proven extremely valuable to me for viewing streaming services from other countries, such as the USA. Since Netflix Japan doesn't have nearly the...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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Go to /root on 1st server. ssh root@server1 cd /root FreeNAS OS drive is mounted read-only, so mount it RW. mount -o rw / Generate an RSA key & leave the passphrase blank. You can use another supported algorithm if you wish. ssh-keygen -t rsa Display...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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Mobile Phones in Japanhttps://japanatron.com/blog/japan/general/10168-mobile-phones-in-japan
I'm "the" IT guy for the Tokyo branch office of a much larger European firm, so I often have to assist visitors from overseas offices with their Japan mobile phone woes. I never understood why sometimes their Blackberries just wouldn't work in Japan....
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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Extra For a Dayhttps://japanatron.com/blog/japan/show-biz/1005-extras
I partook in a gig as an extra in a new Japanese drama coming out in April. 8:00am - 5:00pm and no pay. So I show up at this abandoned Japanese elementary school at 8:00am. 50 Japanese and 1 white guy (me). Guess who stands out? No worries…I’m used to...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Show Biz
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the grain insisting on a separate veggie meal just for me. Japan is big on harmony, and this vegetarian thing just wasn't working. But the primary reason I quit being a vegetarian is that living in Japan opened my eyes to the real problem. "Vegetarian"...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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Countrysidehttps://japanatron.com/blog/japan/countryside
These stories come mostly from my early days in Japan working as an English conversation teacher out in Tottori Prefecture (2003~2006).
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Nice place--their continental breakfast includes bread, sushi rolls, and miso soup. Yeah, I'm definitely in Japan. I start working on Wednesday (with Jennifer), then I'm on my own on Thursday. Monday is my day off, and Tuesday is a national holiday (I...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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the pachinko place the other night and said to myself, "What the hell. Let's get some Japanese practice." I told this guy working at the pachinko parlor parking lot in Japanese, "Excuse me. My bike was over there last night, but now it's gone." He was...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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attended one of my Osaka street shows. They were the only attendees, though. :-( Mondaiji, the Album Lately, I've just been working on finishing a mini-album of my Japanese songs. I just have 1 more song to record. I hope to do a concert at my favorite...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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together. I was nervous about this factor; however, they all turned out to be extremely professional musicians (most working as studio players), so my fears were unfounded. The show went pretty well, and you can see some of the videos on my website....
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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me used video games and systems with his employee discount. It was every 12 year-old boy's dream to have an older brother working such a job, so I was the envy of my circle of video game dork friends. According to my mom, those games were all stolen and...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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Laid Offhttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/general/10063-laid-off
was laid off. We were told as a group on a Tuesday that management had decided to outsource IT services and that our last working day would be Friday. 3 of the SA team would go, and only 1 would stay. I had seen this coming, so I wasn't all that...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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I am the Office Farterhttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/general/10091-i-am-the-office-farter
In high school you've got jocks, geeks, stoners, prom queens, fat kids, and so on and so forth. The working world is no different. You've got "Chads" (the good-looking hot shots that always get their way), geeks (IT dept.), lazy overweight managers...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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assist you in English" (damn, I love how they pluralize "staff"--so cute). This is a great sign because it means they're working to attract the foreigner niche--something few Japanese companies do. UR - Public Housing During my 3-month stay in a...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General