8 posts tagged “japanese”

I'm the only one who didn't know this site while many others have already known?

Manganovel

Free for demo versions, but non-free versions can be obtained if the user contributes as a translator for their manga, it's cool idea huh?

My tired and sleepy brain -->

Slashdot.jp  -->

"Americans and Japanese Read Faces Differently" on LiveScience -->

It's now working. :)

Cebupot is the portal website for various information about Cebu, specialized for Japanese tourists and visitors.  As reading their webpages, Philippine DOT seems intending to increase the number of female tourists from Japan.  I also found that they DOT has been giving an attention mostly to travel agent industry in Japan.  It's obvious that putting  CM on TV and such cost a lot, but there's another way to promote travel for the Philippines to travelers other than travel agencies.

Many of Japanese frequent travelers got bored to travel for Hawaii, Guam, Saipan and other places already, Philippine would be able to be more attractive for them now I believe.  Besides, to let more visitors come, DOT and people of the Philippines should do something now, to change the atmosphere of NAIA, and eliminate rude taxi drivers, security guards and even some bad airport officials hate to, if they really wanna have more visitors from Japan.

Cebu seems okay, but I know some people saying "Philippines?  I won't go there anymore because...." adduceing those reasons.

Hmmm, I'm not sure if those bad and rude ones still exist or not, because it's been over 6 years or so since when I went to the Philippines last time.  I hope such ones no longer exist...

It was expected to be started already, several hundreds Filipino caregivers would be here in Japan to work and to be trained for Japanese language, local custom, laws and regulations.  And both of the Philippine and our government are  hoping that they Filipino caregivers will remain here for long.

To our nation Japan, it would be so helpful to supply a gap caused by decreasing labor force (birth rate has turned to negative already since the year of 2006 in Japan, yes, many of Japanese women don't wanna have children today) if we could invite caretakers from the Philippines.  And of course, it would be good also to the local labor issue in the Philippines, to it would be chances to Filipino people to have more job opportunities.

In the EPA (Economic Partnership Agreement) between the Philippines and Japan, there are many strict conditions for delopyment and acceptance of Filipino caretakers.  But the most tough one must be language.  Under the related laws of this project, Japan requires Filipino caretakers to study Japanese language for 6 months after they arrival.  I know many of them are studying Japanese language already in the Philippines, but I bet it would be not enough in their jobs here.  I wonder why our government thought and decided 6 months would be enough.

In our daily lives here in Japan, especially non-private/casual communication such as in business, "I can read and write both of Katanata and Hiragana" is definitely inadequate.  Some Filipino ex-entertainers who have been living in Japan work as caretakers at nursing homes here, but in most cases they (both of those Filipinas and their employers) are facing the serious problems.  Yes it's about language or communication between elder people there or its staffs.

Since the most of those ex-entertainers have been living here in Japan for long, they speak fluent Japanese, wouldn't have problems for communications with Japanese people.  But once when they need to write or read something memos or papers written in Japanese, they would be in trouble.

This happened some nursing homes specialized for Japanese old and retired people built in the Philippines too, some of those facilities were introduced in local medias sometimes, but as far as I know none of them have succeeded.  Those older people are lonely, being away from their family, children and relatives, and they don't speak foreign language at all. Such nursing homes always say in their brochures and such that "we have Japanese speaking staffs" but those are just advertising and not enough to make them old Japanese grandfathers and grandmothers not to be lonely.

Here's another story.  According to laws (of Japan) for the project say that those Filipino workers should pass the national license test of caretakers within 4-6 years (duh I don't remember how many years...).   By  passing that test (and have that national license), he/she will be able to remain to work in Japan for more.  That's one of Japanese government's expectations for sure, they hope Filipino caretakers to settle, not as temporary workers or seasonal employees.

Besides, their hope won't be realized at last I think.  I guess many of those Filipino caretakers won't prefer to settle here in Japan.  Then what will happen?  They will come here to Japan just as migrant workers.  And that's not Japanese government expect anyway.  Then our government should develop additional systems for them more, such as "giving citizenship or permanent visa if he/she has been working" like in Canada.  Oh yeah, of course Philippine government doesn't want them to be Japanese citizens, though.

As a final note, some other countries' governments push ours to accept caretakers from their countries, the Japanese government might change in policy to invite/accept Filipinos if it won't work as they expected.

A bit old news about new project.  Production I.G. is working on their new animation movie based on the story by GITS fame Shirow Masamune again.  The title is "Shinrei-gari/GHOST HOUND," and it'll be exclusively aired on WOWOW this fall.

Production I.G. worked also on its comics version, titled "Shinrei-gari ANOTHER SIDE" published already on the monthly comic magazine ComicBlade.  They are planning to publish that comic series also on the another monthly comic magazine called MagGarden which they invest.

I've got my ID also at Livejournal before I started using this service Vox here, but I seldom wrote there.  Not only that, I have several blog spaces at some Japanese blog services.  I seldom write there too... (I'd been written many at one of them more than here Vox and Livejournal, though)

Vox has the cross-posting feature, first it seemed nice to me but only few lines of abstract are posted to Livejournal from here, but it's my misunderstanding, all texts can be cross-posted.  Besides, I made up my mind to write something in Japanese on my Livejournal page, and I'll write yet something in English.  This is not because I've got bored with this Vox here, I like it here cuz it's neat and fast more than Livejournal.  I just thought that it's better to seperate 2 blogs to write something in both of Japanese and English, the one in English and another in Japanese, my native language.

Well, I might change my decision in future, though.