A Practical Guide to Working as a Scientist in Japan

Robert W. Ridge

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Index

Academic status
Academic year
Accommodation
Administration
Administrative staff
Alien Registration
Apartments
Apologising
Arriving
Banking and money
Bath
Body language
Bowing
British Chamber of Commerce
Brownie points
Building maintenance
Business card
Cash
Central services
Cockroaches
Commuter monthly pass
Commuting
Conference posters
Conferences
Cycling
Cyclists
Date system
Decision making
Dentist
Diarrhoea
Doctor
Doctor's referral
Dress
Driving licence (menkyosho)
Earthquakes (jishin)
East vs West
Eating out
Education standards
Education system
Electricity
Electricity
Emergency numbers
English
English version of the subway
English Advisory Service
ERATO
Expenses
Expressways
Fare adjustment office
Flea markets
Food
Food bill
Foreign foods
Friendships
Funding
Futon
Gas
Getting around
Gifts
Ginza
Golden Week
Hanko
Health and safety
Health checks
Health Insurance (kenko hokken)
Home Visit System
Host
Hygiene
Industry
Information offices
Information Service in English
Insurance card (hokken sho)
Interactions with colleagues
International Christian University
Japanese Co-op
Japanese homes
Japanese language
Japanese pronunciation of English
JNTO
JNTO
Joining in
Kana
Keio University
Kerosene (toyu)
Koza
Laboratory supplies
Language
Local information
Loud-hailers
Manuscripts
Meishi (business card)
Ministry of Education (academic institutions)
Ministry of Education (RIKEN/ERATO)
Ministry of Finance
MITI
Monbusho (Ministry of Education)
Monbusho (research grants)
Narita
Negative questions
New Year
New Year
OBI
Obon
Officials
Okazaki
Omiyage (souvenir)
Pay
Paying for things
PERI
PhD entry exams
Police
Police box (koban)
Post office (administrators)
Post office
Private universities
Public Baths
Public holidays
RCIUMO
Recycle depots
Regulations (for academics)
Rent
Research grants (state research institutes)
Research grants (getting and managing)
Rice
RIKEN
Rubbish and recycling
Running money
Salary
Schools
Science and Technology Agency (STA)
Seal (hanko)
Seasons
Shoes (taking off when entering a house)
Shoes (purchasing)
Shopping hours
Shyness
Slippers
Smoking
Soap (at bathtime)
Sodai gomi (big rubbish)
Souvenirs
Speed limits
Sponsor
State research institutes
State universities
Stores (for research supplies)
Student learning
Students (at state research institutes)
Students (women)
Supermarket
Tatami
Teaching English
Technical support
Telephone
TIC (Tourist Information Centre)
TIC (addresses)
Toilets
Tokyo (accommodation)
Tokyo (foreign food shops)
Tokyo English Life Line (TELL)
Tokyo University (laboratory facilities)
Tourist Information Centres
Travel money
Travel-Phone Service
Tsukuba (housing)
Tsukuba (koza system)
Tsukuba (schools)
Waseda University
Weather
Welcome Furoshiki
Women in science
Working hours
Xmas