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joycemmjackson 07-08-2009 08:10 AM

how much it cost to delivery 500g parcel inside Japan?
 
I can not find the answer , I am eager to kown that ,can you help me ,pls?Thank you very much! delivery price for 500grams parcel.

blo55om 07-08-2009 11:18 AM

nice
 
to nyororin
your story inspired me a lot.
I wonder & would to know about getting jobs in japan (not teaching jobs)
actually I'm not from USA like you but from Asia that visa process its so difficult, for tourist visa if we're lucky then we've got 3 month but if we're not only have 1 month only.
I've already tried 2 years a go, applied for visa and only get 1 month to japan.
me and 1 of my best friend would like to go to japan hope you could give us some information or the others who read this post.

I learn japan in my country now hope it would be helpful for me

arigatou

blo55om

kyo_9 07-08-2009 04:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by blo55om (Post 742918)
to nyororin
your story inspired me a lot.
I wonder & would to know about getting jobs in japan (not teaching jobs)
actually I'm not from USA like you but from Asia that visa process its so difficult, for tourist visa if we're lucky then we've got 3 month but if we're not only have 1 month only.
I've already tried 2 years a go, applied for visa and only get 1 month to japan.
me and 1 of my best friend would like to go to japan hope you could give us some information or the others who read this post.

I learn japan in my country now hope it would be helpful for me

arigatou

blo55om

what kind of jobs are you preferring to do?
if you have no problems in japanese language communication, then I guess you can work anywhere in Japan.. but, for the visa problem.. sadly to say that I have no experience about this..

mercedesjin 07-10-2009 06:22 PM

Hey guys, I'm confused... What's the difference between prefectures, wards, and cities?

Will a city be under a ward or a prefecture or something? Or is it a ward is under a prefecture? I'm confused. x_x

MMM 07-10-2009 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by mercedesjin (Post 744284)
Hey guys, I'm confused... What's the difference between prefectures, wards, and cities?

Will a city be under a ward or a prefecture or something? Or is it a ward is under a prefecture? I'm confused. x_x

Prefecture is like a state. Then city. Large cities are divided into wards...there are 23 wards in Tokyo.

mercedesjin 07-10-2009 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by MMM (Post 744285)
Prefecture is like a state. Then city. Large cities are divided into wards...there are 23 wards in Tokyo.

Ooooh, okay. So then every city should have a prefecture, right? But when I tried to look up the prefecture for Uji-shi, Kyoto, I just couldn't find it. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough...

Thanks!

MMM 07-10-2009 06:36 PM

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Originally Posted by mercedesjin (Post 744289)
Ooooh, okay. So then every city should have a prefecture, right? But when I tried to look up the prefecture for Uji-shi, Kyoto, I just couldn't find it. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough...

Thanks!

Kyoto (and Osaka) are special. It is Kyoto-fu (not ken) so it is Uji City in Kyoto-fu.

sarasi 07-11-2009 12:01 AM

Kyoto-fu could be called Kyoto prefecture in English- it just has a different name in Japanese, -fu rather than -ken. Tokyo is Tokyo-to rather than Tokyo-ken, but you could still say Tokyo prefecture in this case as well.

Have a look at a good map of Japan and you will see how it is divided into prefectures.

mercedesjin 07-11-2009 12:49 AM

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Originally Posted by sarasi (Post 744439)
Kyoto-fu could be called Kyoto prefecture in English- it just has a different name in Japanese, -fu rather than -ken. Tokyo is Tokyo-to rather than Tokyo-ken, but you could still say Tokyo prefecture in this case as well.

Have a look at a good map of Japan and you will see how it is divided into prefectures.

Oh, I stared at a map for hours. That's what confused me in the first part - trying to figure out why there were wards in some areas, prefectures in others... But thanks!

Nagoyankee 07-11-2009 01:33 AM

There are 47 prefectures in Japan but what some people aren't aware of is the fact that there are 4 names for the "prefecture".

 (と) = Tokyo

 (どう) = Hokkaido

 (ふ) = Osaka and Kyoto

 (けん) = Remaining 43
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There are only 18 cities in which they can have wards (区 = ku). In other words, the vast majority of Japanese cities don't have wards in them.


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