During my first year here, I think Japan was really a flawless country. But parenting have changed my opinion about Japan. It is a tough country to live in! Having a child while working as a nurse with irregular shifts were not easy! I had to save some energies so I...
At the beginning, I was quite nervous because my Japanese ability was very limited. It was quite hard for me to communicate with the other Japanese staffs, elderly patients and their families due to my limited Japanese. Now, I am mastering more vocabularies but...
I am in Japan for almost two and half years. And I am already in love with Japan, its people and culture. When I came to Japan, I was worried about new culture, place, life style and people. Now I live in Kawasaki, back then I was in Tokyo. At the very beginning, it...
I am currently working on my thesis. I am trying to evaluate the relationship among three factors which are public arts, public open space and local people. I would like to know whether local people would appraise public art. Scholars have underlined the importance of...
I would love to see less language barrier at the hospital or clinic between foreigners who don’t know Japanese and the staffs in the hospital. The hospital might want to have translator or the staffs there can be trained to speak english too. I have another...
Currently I am doing a job to support the technical interns program for foreigners. I am so happy to find a job where I can balance work and parenthood. When I first came to Japan, I felt very stressful because I did not have any families living nearby. I had to do...
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