Id like to thank Interac for giving out my bank account details.

5 man yen. Thats right. 5 man, or the dollar equivalent of about 500 dollars. Taken from my bank account.

How you may ask? Oh, someone from the local ward office called and asked for the information. My dumb ass company called me and said that someone was asking about the information. I replied, "You didnt tell them, right?" After some bs and about 3 weeks, i notice a gaping whole in my bank account.

Japan doesnt have a social health care system. Not for gaijin (foreigners). It is if we want to pay twice and much for the same coverage because our company knows that they can get away with not enrolling us.

This whole situation is so disgusting. I wish kids taking freshman japanese in college could hear about this. I would make people change their minds about wasting time studying a language to go to a country where people dont want you to go. And make no mistake, japanese people want people to come here for a year or two, see how beautiful it is, then leave. Too bad japanese expatriots arent held to the same standard.

This is a warning to all that are learning japanese, if you have plans on living in japan, you will need to have the attitude of an activist to be treated the way that you are expecting before you come here. You will speak perfect japanese to a person and they will speak broken english right back to you. Be ready for it.

My deal is; if the social health care system is so important; why would local governments hire private companies that DO NOT pay into the system? Using tax dollars to put give to private companies that openly mock the system by breaking the law.

If my company is to break the law, why is the f)&'%&76'&%&$%#%&#k should I?

Fuck paying kokumin hoken to a system that wont protect my rights. Fuck it until they decide that my rights are worth the taxes they charge me to live here.

...Unless Japan is so awesome for foreigners that we pay rent to live in Japan, rent to live in an apartment, pay twice as much for health care. Japan isnt great enough for all of that.

Any of you people teaching japanese overseas, make sure you let people know what they are getting themselves into when they sign up for Japanese 101.