Updated: Mar 5, 2024
In my city, when you visit some convenience stores you would notice some foreign youth are working there, so I appreciate them. I mean that we have a workforth shortage in this country.
You may be surprised to know that convenience stores are open 24 hours everyday. There are around 58,000 convenience stores in Japan. In my opinion, we don’t need such a lot of stores, but they are trying to earn money by operating stores.
The problem here is workforth shortage. We can’t operate such a huge number of convenience stores without foreign workers. So, thankfully they are working at some of such stores. In many cases they are abroad students, and they are working as part time workers.
This issue isn’t limited to convenience stores, many sectors need foreign workers, because Japan society is quite aging. Unfortunately many Japanese can’t work already due to age. I also will retire from my job soon or later.
However, the Japanese government doesn’t permit immigrants from other countries. I don’t know the reason why.
But I’m waiting for you to come here someday. We hope you will work with us.
Updated: Mar 5, 2024
When I was younger, there were definitely groups of bad students in every school. Bad students group. What do you call it in your country? In Japan, as for the leader of the bad students group, we call it “Bancho”.
In a non-secure town, there were definitely bad girl students groups too. Bad girl students group. And, the leader of the group was called “Suke-ban”. “Suke” is a Japanese slang which means woman. And when I was in my 10s, there was a very interesting TV drama called “Suke-ban Deka”. “Deka” is also slang which means cop. I mean, “Suke-ban Deka” means a bad girl cop. In a real society, we definitely can't have such a cop. So this drama was interesting and popular for young boys. Although, the main character of this drama was very cute.
I think that there are definitely non-secure towns in every city. And maybe, you would have this kind of student group in the town. Do you have “Suke-ban” in your town?
Maybe Ramen is well known as a Japanese dish in your country. But originally this dish was created in China a long time ago.
When I was younger, we called it “Chuka-soba” in Japan. Chuka- soba means Chinese noodle in Japanese. This noodle in this picture is just really called Chuka-soba. I often eat this at a public restaurant nearby. One old master and his fellows are operating this restaurant. It’s simple and popular in this town.
These are standard ingredients. Noodles, green onions, char siu, kamaboko and menma. Have you heard of a food called menma? Menma is made from bamboo, it’s bamboo pickles. Japanese people like to eat bamboo, just like Panda. hahaha
Ramen is a very public dish, so every Japanese person likes ramen. Do you have the same kind of dish in your country?