Let's Japan.org Debunking Eikaiwa and Ramblings in Japan

That last one is a riot! How on earth is driving a taxi taking things to the next level? He might have a point if he's talking about poverty. Why would anybody with a decent level of Japanese even think of a taxi or a combini clerk?

Adamu gave the guy a real smackdown, but he needs to have a beer and chill out. He's a bully picking on a weakling.

£60k a year doesn't sound like the norm and I'm pretty sure taxi drivers in Japan don't haul in that much. Salaries aside, it's highly unlikely that some young eikaiwa punk with questionable Japanese skills is ever going to be seen driving a taxi a Japan. Jason's blog is ridiculous because its premise isn't realistic.

Just did a back of the envelope calculation and £60k is over 8 million yen a year! Sweet job is you can get it.

P.S. Those cunts in the Tsukiji video need a good ass-kicking.

I don’t blame the Fish Market people for being up in arms:

(a) Drunk British Tourists, patting and licking tuna destined for human consumption – hygiene risk. Those fish predominantly get eaten raw, for crying out loud.
(b) Eikaiwa nerd, thinking rules in Japan don’t apply to him and stringing a few words of rock ape Japanese together gives him the right to work between the raindrops without getting wet – hygiene and occupational and safety hazard.

The drunk British Tourists – fine – you see them in every country around the world, and God bless them – it is the Japanese fish market operators fault for not having proper barriers separating the public from the production line (you would not let drunk people with cameras, walk through the production line of a peanut butter factory, for example – well, along a caged or well defined walk way, wearing hair nets, gloves, and sterilized boots – may be).

The young nerds joy riding – I blame eikaiwa for that phenomenon – which makes talentless and clueless jerks, who do not have the maturity or intelligence, to quite understand the superficiality of their “sensei” status, and who have no fluent capacity, to decipher Japanese flattery, initially feel like “rock stars”, who can do as they please. Japan, a country full of strict rules and regulations, literally and culturally, becomes a play ground for such wankers, since such a broad allowance, is made for non-Japanese, by the Japanese. Those pea brain jerks milk that phenomenon to the maximum, without fully understanding it. That is, until they wake up, and realise, what their “role” truly is. Their behaviour, ironically, feeds the rather sick and perverse eikaiwa industry, where Japanese consumers are attracted to the safer and more predictable setting, for their interactions with “foreigners”.

Given that some of the asinine young men in the Tsukiji fish market video clearly had some knowledge of Japanese, I would venture that they are not actually tourists. Groups of young European men don't generally holiday in Tokyo - it is too far and too expensive, especially given the current strength of the yen.