Monday, February 21, 2011

Where can I watch the NBA Finals in Japan live

Where can I watch the NBA Finals in Japan live?
In the Harajuku Shibuya area...anybody can help me that'd be awesome!
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Justin.tv or ABC. Check your local listings.
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Go to http://nba.sports-channels.com Watch nba games online.
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The best place is http://watchmatches.com Good luck!

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Monday, February 14, 2011

How many people per square mile live in Japan

How many people per square mile live in Japan?
I need to stick it on a map for school so if someone could answer before monday that would be nice, and they would get 10 points... IF it was RIGHT Thank you
Japan - 3 Answers
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337.1/kmÂ² or 873.1/sq mile. It''s the 36th worldwide.
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WOW! 10 points!!! Really? Just for doing your homework for you?? Great!!! Tell you what..... I don't do homework assignments, but I will tell you two things..... One, try a search engine like Google. You can take pride in finding the answer on your own. Two, you have to keep in mind that Japan is basically 70% mountainous and uninhabitable. Are you going to determine population density based on total land surface area or just where people live. You'll get very different answers. On a side note, if I were your teacher and found out you were trying to get other people to do your homework your parents might get a quick phone call. Now run along and do your own homework.
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Of course it does not sound very much for the country as a whole, but you must realize that most people live in the cities. The population density for Tokyo is 11,144.7/sq mi (2002)

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Monday, February 7, 2011

Whats the most beautiful place to live in japan

Whats the most beautiful place to live in japan?
Osaka Tokyo? Kyoto? im just saying cuz when i finish high school ( maybe start collage der) i wanna move to japan to start my dream career der (dont ask what)
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Beautiful landscape = Hokkaido Beautiful City = Kyoto Amazing Experience = Tokyo (costs an arm and a leg though)
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i would say kyoto because it still has lots of culture in it. Osaka or Tokyo if you want some fun and excitement. But i have been to Nagoya and it is very beautiful and calm most of the time. People are very nice, helpful and not mean at all ( that's for every in Japan)
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It is difficult to say. As soon as you find somewhere really beautiful, they will come along, widen the road, put up new utility poles, put concrete walls along the sides of the streams and then build something particularly ugly in the middle of your view. When they have done all that, they will then chop all the branches off the trees because somebody has complained about the falling leaves. The Japanese do not seem to appreciate nature or scenic beauty in the same way as other people.
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First, what's "der"? Beautiful is not a word which could be applied to Tokyo nor Osaka. Even Kyoto, with all its heritage and historic landmarks is not a beautiful city. The architecture in Japanese cities can be described by people who like that sort of thing as "exciting" but it is definitely not beautiful. There is very little left of traditional Japanese architecture after the Americans bombed almost ever city in Japan. The best place to be, in my opinion, is somewhere where you can easily get out of the city and see small towns. Tokyo would be my last choice. I like Chris's answer. I didn't go into that because I'm tired of telling people over and over that you can't just move to Japan. You actually can't "just move" to most countries, and Japan is certainly not the easiest in the world. Note: Osaka is Japan's third largest city, after Tokyo and Yokohama. Also, you can get a working-holiday visa if you're Canadian as well.
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Before you start your dream career let me explain some reality to you. Unless you hold a 4 year college degree you are not going to have a career in Japan. you cannot just enter Japan, you need a long term visa and most people teach english when they first get here. You HAVE TO have a college degree or you will not be able to get a working visa. If you earn money in Japan without a work visa FOR THE TYPE OF JOB YOU HAVE you can face severe penalties from immigration. Also, you will need enough in savings to sustain yourself. If you are not hired by a company while outside Japan you can enter three ways. You can enter as a 90 day visitor and you can try to re-enter but immigration is hip to this game and after a few times you might be denied entry even if you rented an apartment etc...that does not matter. You can go to a language school to learn Japanese or go to college in Japan. There is an english speaking college in Tokyo but you need at least 20,000USD in the bank for each year you are going to study. If you are from UK, Ireland,Australia,New Zealand you can work on a working holiday visa for 1 year. But if you do not have a degree, no english teaching job for you even still. Third or actually Fourth if you marry a Japanese national you can get a spouse or dependent visa. It has to be renewed yearly for two years then you can apply for the 3 year and then u are eligible to apply for permanent resident. I would not call this the easiest way and people are not dying to leave Japan ( it is not China) Otherwise you should just finish out your university degree before coming, because you actually have to pick up your work visa outside of japan even if you have been living there usually. Japan is not someplace you can just pick up and move to. So given that you have all the immigration items sorted which you will want to start researching right now the cities you spoke of are all cities, so it depends on what you find beautiful. Tokyo is the largest city in the world. It has a great mass transit system but is VERY expensive. though the more Japanese you know the cheaper it can be.... The problems it faces are pollution and the trains are at 300 percent capacity. There are conductors on the platforms to shove people in during rush house so they do not lose limbs. Tokyo was also firebombed by the US during world war 2 so it is practically brand new. It is comprised of 36 cities to make one Metropolis. so you have that small neighborhood in a big city feel like Los Angeles but with less smog and more efficient transit. If you want anything foreign, it is here. Osaka is the 2nd largest city in Japan. There you can find older prewar buildings and it is said it have a more centered city feel like New York but is smaller in population. It is part of the Kansai region which has some of the most oppressively humid summers in the world. It is a great city and totally different than Tokyo. I suggest you take the JR train from Southern Japan through these cities and see for yourself... Kyoto Is the old Capital of Japan and the headquarters of Nintendo. It is a bit northwest of Osaka but basically in the same area. It has a great mix of culture as well as the new and the old. Most likely you will be an english teacher to start which will take you to Osaka or Tokyo as there are almost always jobs in both. ps I wanted to move there for my dream job too but do not think you can get past the requirements. The Japanese value education and are only going to look at your paper documents. So if you have no degree and no savings it is not happening. If you have money but no purpose, it still is not. The visa comes from either a school or a job to sponsor you and very few but english schools will take a chance on someone from out of the country.
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Izu is nice.

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Tuesday, February 1, 2011

How much does it cost to live in Japan

How much does it cost to live in Japan?
I'm wondering about how much I could buy some rural property in japan. I read an article that said the Hokkaido prefecture was giving land to anyone who would build on it but I'm not sure if they are still doing this. Any information on how to locate preferably cheap property is what I'm looking for.
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http://www.fudosan-k.com/ This site has some extremely cheap land in Hokkaido. I saw 30 tsubo (about 1,000 square feet) of agricultural use land in Ebetsu (outside Sapporo) for about $5,000, as I recall. I'm not 100% sure, but I think people buy very small plots like this for "weekend farm" so they can take their kids out there and garden on the weekends. The land may be cheap, but the visa will be your main issue. Foreigners can buy land in Japan (that's legal), but to live there, you'll need a residence visa to stay for more than three months. For that, you'll probably either need a job (it's apparently extremely hard to even find a job teaching English these days), a Japanese spouse, or a university that you're attending. Without one of these things, you probably won't be able to get a residence visa and actually LIVE on your land. And since a job or a university is likely to be located in the city, it'd be one heck of a commute. You might spend so much money on transportation, it would completely offset the advantage of owning your own land, but I will leave that up to you to decide. Of course, if you were to marry a Japanese person, or live in Japan enough years to be granted eijuuken (that's A LOT of years), I'd imagine owning rural Hokkaido land would allow you to economize to the extreme and would be great if you were self-employed and didn't need to commute anywhere. And as for free land, first of all, that's probably only for Japanese or permanent residents of Japan, and that probably has some kind of stipulation like "you must build a house on it within two years." And even if foreigners are eligible, it's better to pay for land in a not-so-bad location than to get free land right next to Sakhalin where temperatures go down to -39 degrees and where there is no civilization (or jobs) in sight!
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>I'm wondering about how much I could buy some rural property in japan. If you want to buy a house or something cheaply in Japan, you need to find it in rural area. But those areas do not have much population. It means there are not many jobs. And salary is low. So it's difficult to keep living there. Anyway, you may find a $200,000 house in rural Japan. >Hokkaido prefecture was giving land to anyone who would build on it but I'm not sure if they are still doing this. At least, there is nothing like that now. >How much does it cost to live in Japan? If you are alone, you can live with $30,000 per year. But cost to raise kids is very high. You need $60,000 or so (as combined income of couple) to raise kids. BTW, you can't live in Japan even if you bought a house. You need working visa or some other visa.
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You need to have a valid official visa to stay in Japan no matter if you need to work or not. Some extremely inexpensive rural real estate in Hokkaido are all located ultimately inconvenient. Winter is long and hard but Summer is short but still cold and you'll see some Japanese brown bears as uninvited guest too. It might be no community. Neither school nor convenience store within one hour drive. There is very poor common lifeline such as public utilities like electoricity, propane, water system, drainage, collecting garvage and/or even public passage service etc. You need to do away with everything by yourself. Property tax will be charged annually though. We know the reason why it is so cheap is because nobody has paying interest on those barren estate. If you don't have any visa status problem, no need any job there nor to care of the basic public lifeline to survive in, The property starting cost total less than US$50,000 subject to some reason is not too difficult to find out there. But again, if you even get some cheap property, your running cost to live in there would not be so cheap anyway.

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