Japan Rant » Government http://www.japanrant.com Having a bad Japan day? Get it off your chest right here Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:20:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Hello work http://www.japanrant.com/hello-work/ http://www.japanrant.com/hello-work/#comments Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:53:31 +0000 tom http://www.japanrant.com/hello-work/ I am looking for a job at the moment and a Japanese friend suggested I go to “Hello Work”. Hello work is a government run place to help people find work in Japan.

My experience with Hello Work is that no one in the office could speak English and there are little or no jobs for foreigners. Their job search system is bilingual but it is a waste of time. I came home disillusioned from my Hello Work experience and searched on the internet if any other foreigners had used Hello Work.

I found a story about a guy who found a job at Hello Work writing the English for a Japanese porn site!

]]> http://www.japanrant.com/hello-work/feed/ 2 Japan to require all foreigners to be fingerprinted http://www.japanrant.com/japan-to-require-all-foreigners-to-be-fingerprinted/ http://www.japanrant.com/japan-to-require-all-foreigners-to-be-fingerprinted/#comments Sun, 28 Oct 2007 05:24:21 +0000 Mike http://www.japanrant.com/japan-to-require-all-foreigners-to-be-fingerprinted/ From next month all foreigners entering Japan and those already living there will need to be fingerprinted. The move is to prevent terrorism in the country even though to date there has never been a terrorist act committed in Japan by a foreigner.

“It certainly doesn’t make people who’ve been here for 30 or 40 years feel like they’re even human beings basically,” said businessman Terrie Lloyd, who has dual Australian and New Zealand citizenship and has been based in Japan for 24 years.

A few years ago you needed to have your fingerprints taken when you registered for your Alien registration card, but the practice was later stopped.

Read more: Japan to take fingerprints, photos of foreigners

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