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Osaka for the win!

i love your energy , gonna watch you more often now!!

英語教師を奴隷としか扱わず、賃金も低い日本になんて来る必要無いし、もっと快適に過ごせる国は地球上にいくらでもあるから。

Im moving to Japan lets go out for dinner or an osaka trip

If you're rich enough to eat one of the most expensive meat in the world.😅

Amusement parks are really queueing parks so this is way better in my opinion!

Very good presentation skills. Off the top of my head, one more big con is related to my situation. I love teaching enough to have gotten a M.Ed at Temple University Japan, matriculated into the doctoral program, and spend 42 consecutive years here. I began as an Eikaiwa teacher in Utsunomiya, but after about two and half years, moved to Tokyo for career advancement. I was an adjunct at TUJ, which included about 20 years as the biology lab director, was the first and only teacher in its now thriving Adult Continuing Education Program, and taught public speaking and Freshman writing. In the meantime, I supplemented my income as an adjunct English teacher at top Japanese Universities (Waseda and Tokyo University of Fine Arts) and many less prestigious schools (Komazawa, Nihon Daigakku, Meisei, Sagami Women's, etc.). Before finishing my doctoral degree, I had secured a tenured position at Jissen Women's College, which I held for about 14 years before eventually resigning in protest. My reason? In Japanese institutions, foreigners often serve as only a token face for internationalization. The following paragraph is not meant to be a curricula vitae or sing my virtues, but rather a warning about putting all of your eggs into one basket. I rather enjoyed the repetitive nature of some classes because it allowed me a chance to trouble-shoot the materials and heuristics to tap into the students' interests and motivate them further. When the Ministry of Education implored teachers to inform the students of outreach activities in the community, I led by example. I became a regular volunteer at Shinjuku's Soup no Kai (serving the homeless), was on the board of Directors of a City Government funded NPO (Hino Kokusai Koryu Kyokai - helping integrate long term foreigners with the local community), did volunteer work with the JCI's (Junior Chamber International), volunteer work at Hino Jidosha's In=-House High School, volunteered at a local kindergarten, and at my own expense ... accompanied Japanese college students to rural Cambodia as a teacher and teacher trainer. For about 12 years, I was a volunteer judge for University All Japan English Speech Contests (check comments under a TH-cam search for Himari Semans "Wise Consumer"). And for about a 3 or 4 year stint, I was one of only two native speakers of English in the country who was on the Ministry of Education's English Textbook Committee (for compulsory education). I also continued original research with publications and presentations in Japan, the U.S. and Korea on the topic of what I called "Event-Driven Curriculums" (as opposed to standardized tests). Thanks largely to community volunteer work, I eventually received a permanent visa. At my peak, maybe about 20 years ago, I was making about 10 million yen per year, so I was not worried about money. I had a lady friend, but. was in no hurry to marry. I did not need a work-life balance because I dedicated my resources to my passion of teaching. My classes were popular - with the students. Not so much with my tenured colleagues. They were all Japanese, and what some might call 9 to 5 "salaryman sensei" ... and others would call "semmon baka", specialized idiots who had never worked in the real world outside of academia. They were typical "teachers' providing a service in a transactional exchange for a salary, which mostly subsidized their real passions, hobbies, and family. They were not "educators' trying to make a positive difference in the students' lives, and there was no educational community. And as they were not native speakers of English, they made sure all of our weekly department meetings were in Japanese only, and of course the monthly kyoujukai (meetings for all faculty). Certainly, I would not expect them to communicate in English for the sake of a single tenured foreigner ... but they went out of their way to keep me out of the loop. I once heard the petty politics of academia in America is so vicious because the stakes are so small ... but that is nothing compared to the marginalization and dehumanization that is inflicted out of jealousy and / or fear of the pressure to keep up with standards of excellence. Besides, with the economic bubble beginning to collapse, and with the school looking for ways to cut costs, I was the lowest hanging fruit. Even though my title was "Associate Professor" ... I was thought of as little more than the token face of "internationalization". The over-riding purpose of Japanese "educational' institutions, like most of the West, is to crank out compliant, disposable workers. There is no room for dedicated educators trying to make the world a better place. After academic / power harassment too vicious to describe in detail here, at age 59, with 11 remaining years of tenure, I resigned in protest. I had gone through a labor union and lawyer, but. basically, Japanese labor law is not worth the paper it is written on. If a company or other institution wants to get rid of someone. I thought I would just go back to making a living juggling part-time jobs at other universities. Wrong. The grapevine is finely tuned. Once one resigns from a Japanese college, you are likely to be black-listed from ever teaching even part-time at a University again. After jumping through the bureaucratic hoops of "Hello Work" without any luck. Even conversation schools would not hire me because I was "over qualified". Three years ago, I did manage to snag an ALT job for a small town in West Tokyo, Kunitachi. I rotated between three junior high schools, 9 elementary schools, and a special needs school. Each of the schools had at least 3 or 4 full-time Japanese teachers, all of whom were my bosses. When the City government hired me, they did not even bother to forward my experience or qualifications to my new bosses. I had already started my teaching career in Japan at the time most of my bosses were born, one boss being as young as 21 years old. Maybe a half dozen of the 50 or so I worked for were decent, but often, I was told to stand in the corner and wait for commands to pronounce a word. I even took second seat to having the students repeat after a poorly put together CD of 'professional' student voice-actors. Many times, I was mortified at the unprofessional and downright mean-spirited behavior of the teachers. The one thing young students learn faster than English? Where the token foreigner ranks in the hierarchy. At the end of my two years, I was released from my contract because I did not meet unspecified City Government standards. I heard that my replacement as an English ALT is a non-native speaker from SouthEast Asia. Japan is a nice place to visit ... maybe hang out for a year or two. Caveat Emptor

I am addicted to the anime hop

weird place but bro i dont got an iphone

I hate being inspired constantly while knowing i have zero time to commit to content creation, lol wish you the best I'm so happy when I see people break out of the machine!

Best of fun on your journey! Always get some rest time to time!

Amazing journey!

I'm proud of you, too! Happy you're happy and blessed that i found your channel all these years ago and could experiance so many things with you 🙏 I'm planning my next japan trip in 2026, hopefully everything works out. There is a super low possibility, but it would be mindblowing if i'd see you by chance. I'm sure to say hi 😁

you’ve earned the success you’re experiencing now because you were GRINDING af it months and years before you quit. you haven’t stopped since but i’m glad you’re now receiving the freedom you’ve always wanted. so proud of you! 🤍🤍 also had so much fun this day!!!!!

24 hours of TH-cam work yields 2 USD.

proud of you! do what you love! Happy Belated Birthday!

The Shizuka collabs on Japan by Food are 🔥

U know it’s good when steffy starts wif an anime hop

The snow here in Aomori has only been here for a week and I already miss green trees😂

Ganbatte Stef ... but don't Ganbatte too hard like the Japanese sometimes do!. :P

She thinks only iphones have a clean up feature,when we already had the feature 😂😂😂😂

This is fun to watch at .5x

Hello I'm just here to look at the beautiful girl

How os starting from 57$ a dish not breaking the bank??

❤❤

Fang Tokyo intro 😂

WAIT a minute... did you try it!?

Wtf why rafsan is there

i can drink it. i like mayonnaise

hijikata toshirou would love this

RAFSAN

Rafsan er baccha ki kore 💀

Nothing is able to break American bank with yen 😭

I love your little hop in every intro.

RAFSAN

Rafsan?

50 shades of beige

Oh my gosh is that rafsan the chotobhai?

Rafsan the choto Bhai 😮😮😮

Keegan’s shirt💀💀💀💀

Rafsan 🗿

Mmm them fluffy pancakes jiggles like my buttcheeks 😂

SHIBUYA IS SUPER OVERCROWDED PERIOD

Why you are so pretty omg 😱

Sounds awful, to be honest. On salad, yes, as a drink, no 👎

i thought it was for french fries 😭

wait where is it? lol

what's it called?

Don't go to Shibuya at Halloween.

As l type this l am in Shibuya-ku. Will have to go home soon but will return just as soon as l can. Staying near Shibuya Stream. Wonderful city and beautiful people ❤️.