It amuses me to see all the upvotes for your transitivity tag change, AFTER you made it

Every time I hear 新入生 my brain really wants to hear 侵入生

I really wish there were a more convenient way to see meta posts

I always forget to check

Meta sites are great but the current implementation does very little to encourage participation

I tend to notice when things are featured, so I'd say go for it

I really wish there were just a feed of recent meta posts

at the very least

I hate 漢検's policy to have radical or stroke order in their test of lower grades, but as a second thought, they're perhaps trying to absorb Japanese learner

@snailboat traditionally, 夏's bottom is 夊 while 冬's cap is 夂, so it's just recent abnormal weather :D

@DariusJahandarie I updated my answer too, hoping it's understandable in English this time...

@snailboat oh, do you mean this one?

thank you for second opinion, for I don't have any intuition

virmaior says he can raise hamsters, though

maybe some dialects?

so, am I guessing correct that "raising" animals is aiming for raise them big, but not keep them for long time?

then, probably I get it

dialects can be very confusing even to native speakers... especially when they are subtle

At least in my English, we often call what children do relative to their pets "raising"

Maybe less so with adults

Btw, I just passed the N1 ... not a score I'm especially proud of, but passing is passing

高度人材ビサ here I come

Though my wife agrees with @snailboat ... she says she would only use "raising" in the context of "raising a guide dog for six months and then we had to give it away"

My wife also says "had" ...

Apparently, my use is idiolectic ...

Though my wife is from California which is where I think snailboat is ...

@virmaior Do you know what the requirements for that sort of thing are?

The 高度人材 visa?

immi-moj.go.jp/newimmiact_3/en

Yeah I just found that site.. can't find where it says how many points you need, though

you need 70

immi-moj.go.jp/newimmiact_3/en/procedure/index.html

Oh man, I think I just barely hit 70 points

I wonder if I can get 10 more points for having both N1 and a degree in Japanese

I'm pretty sure no based on the XLS form

Also, you might not be eligible as a JET

(assuming that's what you currently do for work)

I do, but.. why would that disqualify me?

which category of highly-skilled professional would being a JET be?

and it might cause administrative problems for them

They rejected me a year ago because they didn't accept work experience done while simultaneously earning a degree

and they only use 1 database to search for publications

or rather I had to 取り下げる from applying

Looking back through it I might have made a mistake, maybe I don't get up to 70 regardless

I do computer science though

working on my masters

But do you do computer science for work in Japan?

Part of why they didn't count my work experience was that I'm teaching at a university now and my work experience is as a programmer

they also refused to count any courses taught while pursuing my PhD as work experience

I don't... yet

obviously I'm only entertaining fantasy here

Yeah, I'm not trying to be the parade of negativity on this one

it was just 非常に面倒くさい because all of this was done while I was out at AEON with a phone call that began "is your wife with you?" / Me: Who is this? / Him: "immigration" and then devolved into 40 minutes of arguing about whether you can do two things at once. Per him, 常識 says you can only have one 在籍... Per me, that's a load of BS

I needed either the N1 or one more publication showing up to get the points I needed

I wonder if 漢字検定 counts as a Japanese work-related qualification

if I get some kind of qualification here I can bump up to 70 just by being young and able to speak Japanese

probably no. The list is really short and focused as far as I could tell on accounting

Here's the list: immi-moj.go.jp/newimmiact_3/en/pdf/…

Attorney in most states in the US or actuarial things mostly

that's for the foreign qualifications, though

immi-moj.go.jp/newimmiact_3/en/pdf/leaflet_en.pdf

In technical activities, it lists Japanese qualifications

but doesn't say which

hmmm... weird

I think they're making up the rules as they go along

so if you get lucky with your examiner, that would work

well I'll certainly apply when my time comes nearer

the worst that'll happen is they'll say no, I suppose

then I can fall back on getting married and being a NEET house husband B-)

haha

sounds like a good plan

Japan needs me for gems like this

Anyway as long as I can find a job after JET I'll be happy regardless of visa status