Geeter Mckluskie comments

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Should stop requiring “Native Japanese” Language skills , even in Foreign multi-nationals

OK, but for labour jobs. For any white collar job, at minimum people should be able to read and write at a grade 5 elementary school level.

With 50% of current jobs being rendered obsolete by AI and mass-automation within the next 2 decades a reduction in population is prudent at this time in Japan's history. Politicians are short-sighted on this point and only want the quick fix of immediate tax revenue increases for their own expenditures. Politicians who truly have their citizens' best interests in mind would not be so determined to fill their pockets today only to have the burden of the huge number of unemployable people to go along with the burden of an elderly population putting even more strain on the public coffers.

obviously companies can't operate properly/normally if they're short on labor.

Part of managing a company is understanding the labour market and forecasting accordingly

amid labour shortages

Amid poor management more like it

The teachers did not notice the boy was drowning.

They had ONE job...to NOTICE!!!

Chichibu

Quaint, traditional admosphere, clean clear river, beautiful low lying mountains for hiking. Cooler in summer

Woah,dude, it's not a competition.

Just adding some perspective from a full time high school teacher. At least in some schools MEXT guidelines are being strictly adhered to. We're a school of 1500 students. Our teachers work 40 hours a week on average, with about 2 hours overtime a month. Those who run major sports teams work longer...but get paid for their overtime.

From those "40" paid holidays, at least half of that is spent on taking the students to bukatsu competition, having to go to work to take care of bukatsu while in summer "vacation". Weekends? They may still need to take care of dang bukatsu or if the BoE decided to have classes on Saturdays, then the working week becomes a 6 days week and the day off to correct tests, etc. at home.

Our school has Saturday classes as most high schools do. Teachers are allotted two days off a week, Sunday and another day chosen randomly at the beginning of each year. My day was Friday, last year. It's Tuesday this year. Tuesday and Sunday...and 40 paid holidays on top of the two a week and 15 national holidays a year. I take 3 weeks in August, 3 weeks 3 weeks over Christmas and New Years (New Years' holidays don't count against our 40 allotted total) and 10 days at the end of March. So does everyone else, other than those coaches who run major sports teams like baseball...but they get paid for every second of overtime they put in. Everyone is on a digital clock. As for marking, preparing exams etc., full time teachers have around 17 to 20 classes a week...or 3 to 4 classes a day, meaning 2 to 3 spare periods for marking etc.

Walking past schools at night and seeing the parking lots full and lights on at 11:30pm 

I've lived in Japan since 1988 and have yet to witness this scene...even during the 80s and 90s!

 I mean a drag on society having hereditary police. I mean the gene pool is reduced, 

The police have issues recruiting due to the brutal training, stressful demands by superiors and low pay. Nepotism is not as big an issue as is the kind of effect such a brutal way of life has on individuals who are already predisposed to brutality and over aggressive behaviour, behaviour that is suppressed on one hand only to be released on another...the other being the public or inferiors.

there's not even a Teacher's Day in Japan.

No, but there are 40 paid holidays on top of 15 national holidays.

Meetings, club activities, meetings, dealing with parents, meetings, home visits, meetings, lesson planning, meetings, extra-curricular activities, meetings, marking included? Or are you called a "full time" teacher but employed on a fixed contract teaching English? If the latter, I would find you believable.

I'm a full-time licensed teacher (my teaching license was obtained from Rikkyo University's teachers' licensing program). I'm not "called a full-time teacher". I AM one. I'm in charge of the English club and the ice hockey club. The English club meets twice a week from 3:30 to 5pm. The ice hockey club practices on ice once a week on Saturdays from 3pm to 4:30 pm and train daily from 3:30 to 5pm. All meetings conclude by 5pm (this has been the case for 5 years, since MEXT has updated the overtime laws and began to remotely monitor teachers' hours). I do marking between classes. I have 17 classes a week, so there is plenty of time for marking. I've been teaching for more than 30 years, lesson plans have all been made in advance. I'm a sub-homeroom teacher, so I don't deal with parents. That said, my co-workers who are homeroom teachers leave at 5 as well. Many of the major clubs have coaches from outside the school, now who are either retired teachers or experts in their field, such as in our baseball, kyudo or brass band clubs.

Perhaps the hereditary nature of the business - like with politicians - is a drag.

No, I don't think that has anything to do with the actual job being a drag. What's a drag is having to deal with a hostile public only to have to deal with over-demanding, hostile superiors.

They can spend as much time as they like after they’ve finished their homework, piano practice, chores etc.

Yeah right. Where? Certainly not the Kanto and Kansai areas.

We rented a 3 bedroom apartment in Setatgaya Ward, Tokyo for 8万 a month up until 2020 when we bought a 3 bedroom home in Saitama, on a 1/4 acre lot, 50 minutes from Ikebukuro...the centre of Tokyo...For the equivalent of $150,000. The same home would have cost 10 times as much for the land alone in Toronto, where I'm from.

So, dinosaur ideas can exist among younger adults, too.

I read "dinosaur teachers", not "ideas". Was I wrong?

File it wherever you like, -- it wasn't an isolated case in that prefecture.

Unless you have a news source for those other cases...as well as this one. I'll file it under JET urban myths

My wife was a cop. Her father was a cop. Her two brothers are cops. Now, imagine the strictest work evironment in Japan that any of you has experienced...and multiply that stress 10 fold.

I work 8:30 to 5, 5 days a week as a full-time licensed high school teacher in Japan. I put in about 2 hours overtime a month.

As the cost of gas rises, so does the cost to transport food to supermarkets

The government should subsidize farming with all that tourism yen flowing in

Slapped by teacher for buying cakes on the way home

I’ll file this under JET urban myth

I wonder, are all these stories about dinosaur teachers…

Police in Tokyo have arrested a 26 year old woman

There is no age group where the vaccine represents more risk, none.

This from the National Insitute of Health's web page

Myocarditis is a rare but significant adverse event associated with COVID‐19 vaccination, especially for men under 40

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9880674/

Not only death but also permanent disability is much higher for covid than for any kind of vaccine.

I'll try agian...What is the death rate for healthy 18 year old boys? What is the injury rate from Covid vaccines for 18 year old boys?

"Much higher" is not a rate...How much higher? What are the rates?

Nobody should blame themselves for doing something that is easy to prove better. 

What is the rate of death by Covid among healthy 18 year old boys?

What is the rate of vaccine injury among that same demographic?

My son was vaccine injured. Immediately after receiving his 2nd shot of the Pfizer vaccine he started getting Parkinson's like shaking symptoms...that was 2 years ago and they still persist

Convincing my healty 18 year old boy to take the vaccine was the worst thing I've ever done

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/05/15/japan/society/kishida-revoke-permanent-residency

not really welcoming of foreigners

Who shirk paying taxes...

Japan needs highly skilled foreign nationals, not those whose jobs will be rendered obsolete by AI or mass-automation within a decade further exacerbating strain on the public coffers which are under a great deal of stress due to the ageing population.