I'm currently enrolled in a Master's programm in Japan, though it's not really related to Japan (I study horticulture). In my case, I don't want to live in Japan forever, I just wanted to have the experience here and it turned out I found a supervisor who is a specialist in my preferred research field
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It's not so much that I just want to make money, as I am quite interested in Japanese language, culture and linguistics so would probably enjoy doing research anyway - it's more I'm worried I'll graduate with a Masters and find myself working in a coffee shop in NZ >>; I currently have a Bachelor of International Studies specialising in Japanese but with hardly any work experience it's very hard to find a job here or in Japan
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I don't really know about other countries, but at least in Germany, a Masters degree or Ph.D. is required for most research areas and teaching (at universities). Also, in business areas, a Master comes in quite handy. Some people on the other hand say that if you have a Masters dgegree, you'd be "over-qualified" for a "normal" working job, in an office or so
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It's also whether or not a Masters in JAPANESE will help - if I get 1kyu, it seems most people think that a Ma in Jp won't make a difference ^^;
Research is interesting though, but the PostGrad research seems to be more on cultural/anthropological/linguistical basis, so just knowing Japanese might not be enough to get a good research project.
Definitely!! :) I tend to be more into indies now, but I just spent all week catching up on the oldschool bands as I did a post on them for my blog - I started a Visual Kei New Zealand blog for my friend's forums, so it's starting off super-basic because not many people here know about VK, but once I get the major bands done then I can get onto indies bands! Yeyey!! I'm on Facebook more than LJ now though ^-^;
Well, for working in Japan, JLPT1 (or at least JLPT2) is definitely neccessary. I'm not sure about a Masters degree in linguistics, whether that really helps. I have a few friends who are doing their Masters in linguistics right now, but none of them wants to go on with the Ph.D. And they don't know about job possibilities yet, so I'm not such a big help, sorry! But like I said, for research purpose, postgrad is VERY important.
I have to confess that I'm mainly hooked up on X Japan. I even went to a concert of them last year, made my dream come true XDD Wow, you started a blog about Visual Kei? That sounds pretty cool!
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Research is interesting though, but the PostGrad research seems to be more on cultural/anthropological/linguistical basis, so just knowing Japanese might not be enough to get a good research project.
Definitely!! :) I tend to be more into indies now, but I just spent all week catching up on the oldschool bands as I did a post on them for my blog - I started a Visual Kei New Zealand blog for my friend's forums, so it's starting off super-basic because not many people here know about VK, but once I get the major bands done then I can get onto indies bands! Yeyey!!
I'm on Facebook more than LJ now though ^-^;
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I have to confess that I'm mainly hooked up on X Japan. I even went to a concert of them last year, made my dream come true XDD Wow, you started a blog about Visual Kei? That sounds pretty cool!
Just added you!
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