Kid doctors, kid lawyers, kid chefs and kid bankers! There’s a place in Japan where kids can get jobs like grown ups and even earn money and open bank accounts. Where is this magical and mysterious place? Well, you’ll just have to ask Miki!

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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! As you daydream in your cubicle in Japan, you wonder whether you’re in the right job. While you like coming to work, it’s more about hanging out with your Japanese friends and, of course, the paycheck. You’ve thought about taking some career aptitude tests to see what else you might do, but inertia has set in and it’s hard to make a change. Of course, with the recent economic slowdown, you also worry that your Japanese employer might also have layoffs. So you try to stay under the radar, do just enough to please your Japanese boss, and play your share of solitaire on the computer. Of course, when your boss comes round the corner and bellows so all your colleagues can hear in Japanese, “I have an announcement,” it sends shivers down your spine! He says in Japanese, “Even though he’s worked here for some time, our manager has decided to retire. That leaves an opening…” Hmm. You ponder to yourself in Japanese, “Despite my work habits, maybe I’m management material?”
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You’re stranded in Tokyo. Not enough cash for a hotel. Where do you stay? Two Japanese businessmen decide to stay at a manga kissa, a manga cafe. Similar to an internet cafe, but you can Japanese anime, manga, magazines and even massage chairs! Gomi-san recommends Nana and “Nekomura-san”, two famous Japanese manga. We’ll review our Japanese grammatical expressions using the -masu stem + yasui, -masu stem + nikui, -masu stem + sugiru.

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Kid doctors, kid lawyers, kid chefs and kid bankers! There’s a place in Japan where kids can get jobs like grown ups and even earn money and open bank accounts. Where is this magical and mysterious place? Well, you’ll just have to ask Miki!

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Do you feel overworked? Think you might be working yourself to death? In Japan, people really do, quite literally, work themselves to death (karōshi). In this lesson, we talk about the contributing factors in Japanese society that cause karōshi. It may seem unimaginable, but it’s a serious reality of the Japanese lifestyle. Premium users can enjoy the Combo Track which combines all 4 dialogs into a single audio file designed to increase your listening comprehension. That’s over 6 minutes of straight JLPT1 Japanese! If you want to sound articulate, you’ll need the useful Japanese phrases wake ni wa ikanai and ~te kara de wa osoi. These are useful grammatical constructions if you plan to do business in Japan (and subsequently work yourself to death, lol).












