Neil Duckett

In a week where many people get away from Japan i’ve unfortunately stayed put and worked most days … the last 2 from home so not all bad. I’m off to Ireland at the end of the month so i needed to conserve the few holidays i have in preparation for that.

It’s been a pretty casual week though and i’ve managed to get out pretty well every night this week and also catch up on a few things i’ve needed to during the day.

Perusing the internet this morning i came across an interesting article re “The Foreign Ministry plans to give favorable treatment in visa applications and extensions to foreign nationals with a good command of the Japanese language.”  You can read more about it over at Japan Probe.

Essentially though there’ll be no unfavourable treatment to those with no Japanese language skills but for others who have endeavoured to learn they will include extending the resident status of foreigners with a certain level of Japanese language proficiency to a maximum of five years from the current three.

On a less serious note, i found this lunch special quite amusing, childish i know.

Image Source: Neta

I’m expecting the next few days to be pretty quiet for me, try and do the right thing and keep it pretty tidy and all things go according to plan, i aim to get out to Harajuku on Sunday for the next installment on the 29 stops of the JR Yamanote Line.

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