Archive for November, 2021
Job Hunting for College Students (就活）Part 1 Posted by eriko1 on Nov 29, 2021
This time, I will write how Japanese university students get a job – the system of 就職活動 (shushoku katsudo). It is abbreviated as 就活 (shukatsu). As this is a complicated yet interesting system, I will make this in 2 parts. First of all, most of Japanese college students start college in April and graduate four…
A Door Posted by eriko1 on Nov 18, 2021
A door (ドア doa). It can open or close, and it can show things and it can hide things. It does so many things and it affects so many things in our lives. I wrote about the refrigerator in my first blog. It is hard for a Japanese student who stays at a US host…