TEIJG
Living in Japan | Working in Japan | Enjoying Japan
What Are We?
Jul 1st
What Are We? We are real life information facilitators! We are not professors and don’t pretend to be, but we are realists! We tell it how it is over here in Japan. Our true life experiences of daily life and topics from soy sauce to fashion all illustrated with beautiful photos and video for your enjoyment and perusal.
Our Teaching English in Japan Guide book we believe is very unique and excellent value at the introductory price of $ 9.99 for the first 100 people then its back to the normal retail price of $19.99 which is still excellent value! Go on grab yourself a copy now! Don’t forget to tune in for our weekly power packed premium podcast.
Japanese Tissue Advertising
Jun 30th
In just about every city in Japan you will be given tissues while walking down the street.
This is a great form of advertising and is used by all types of companies. If you think about
it who doesn’t want free tissues. Especially, during allergy and cold season! Another great
use is as TP (toilet paper) if you are in a bind and in a public bathroom. A lot of public
toilets in Japan don’t have toilet paper or are often out.
A funny story that I have about this is that when I first moved to Japan my roommates
and I had a contest to see how many tissue packs we could get in a day. Lets just say that
we filled up a big box with these things! LOL, a good way to kill some time if you have a
day off and nothing to do. The staff giving away these tissue advertisements can make
about 10,000 Yen a day passing them out, so it’s a pretty good part time job too.
Eric
TEIJ-G: Episode 005 – “First Trip To Japan”
Jun 27th
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In TEIJ-G: Episode 005 – “First Trip To Japan”, Anthony and Eric get you up to speed
with what’s going on in Japan at the moment, and in the main event we talk about our
“First Trips to Japan”.
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PS. Please forgive the audio on this one. Eric forgot to bring his
power cord so we had to use an old windows laptop with audacity, which was a real pain!!
Why Save Time And Use The Highway ?
Jun 24th
Its an interesting topic to be sure! In a country that is so highly populated where the roads are busy at the best of
times. Why wouldn’t you use the highways for a few hundred yen? Time is a precious commodity something that we
never seem to have enough of. Yet it never ceases to amaze us that many people will not use the highways! They
would rather take the normal roads, get stuck in heavy traffic, stop at every red light (because traffic lights don’t
work in unison, they are not synchronized ) stressing themselves out than pay a measly 300-600 yen in toll fees to
take the highway and reach their destination in half the time.
We are not saying the highways don’t get busy by any means and at times there are traffic jams because of
accidents and also during long vacations, but if you think strategically, pick your days and times you will save
yourself a lot of time and a lot less stress believe us! It’s up to you personally, we would rather spend 600 yen than
take the normal roads to go to a friends house for a visit. Its simple would you rather spend an hour and a half
stopping and starting in traffic on your way to the beach with your wife and kids and or friends, or would you rather
spend that 600 yen jump on the highway and be there in 20 minutes …its a no brainer right!
How much is your time worth….
TEIJ-G: Episode 004 – “ALT vs Eikaiwa”
Jun 20th
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In Episode 004 – “ALT vs Eikaiwa”, Anthony and Eric give you the pros and cons of the ALT (Assistant Language Teacher)
vs the Eikaiwa Teacher (English Conversation School Teacher). This will give you the
upper hand when it comes to picking your first job in Japan. Plus as usual we give you our
weekly updates of things that have happened in our lives in Japan 
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Japanese Beer: The Cute Mini Can
Jun 20th
Aren’t these little Asahi Beer cans “Cute”? We are not sure who these cans are being marketed to.
They look cool but I can’t image who would buy them, unless they only wanted a sip of
beer and didn’t want to waste a real sized can or bottle. Perfect for a nightcap? Hmm…
Will have to do more research on these to find out. (The Budwiser can is normal size)
