where do japanese study?

[valeriaqt]

I love Japanese people, and I love making friends with them. I've travelled all over the world, and I've been to schools in different parts of the world. One thing that amazes me is how there are japanese students in some places and not in others, why?
Heaps of japanese in schools in switzerland
No japanese in england
Heaps of japanese in New Zealand
No japanese in Australia

I don't understand? and its funny, is it because there are more chinese in england and australia? Im confused... :souka:

[lexico]

The mutually exclusive distribution in England-Australia against Switzerland-New Zealand is mighty interesting indeed !!
Maybe they've been kind of avoiding each other just to keep the competition for resources low ???

In San Francisco, there's China Town and Japan Town in two separate areas of the city. No hostility whatsoever as far as I know. I'm pretty sure they do business with each other, too, although only when necessary. One difference I did notice between the two was while the Chinese seemed to be more connected to their Chinese ties in Guangdong, Hongkong, Taiwan, Shanghai, or Beijing, the Japanese I met felt more disconnected from Japan.

As for foreign students of just young people vacationing, I found little difference in the major cities in California. They come from all over the place, and don't mind mingling with everybody else. Notwithstanding sensitive historical arguments, either. :)

Back on topic, could it be that the tourist agencies just decided to pick different tours to advertise ? I think tourism can be very arbitrary because there are so many places to promote and sell to vacationers. So I'd think the strange distribution you've discovered can be explained by chance. :P

[valeriaqt]

yeah i c where you are coming from, but Im just really bummd out bout the lack of japanese students in some countries....bwhaa :(

[lv426]

er... there seem to be plently of Japanese at my school, so I dont know about the England one!

[Keiichi]

I thought there are lots of Japanese students that study in Austraila?
Lots of Japanese students at my school, too. But I live in Hawaii, so what'd you expect. :p
Maybe it's kind of a tit-for-tat thing that made certain locations more widely popular in the field. Some schools/locations already have an abroad/exchange program created early making it more likely to receive abroad students. And it just spreads around schools in the same country. Like airports.

Keiichi

:blush:

[Kara_Nari]

Well, yeah there did seem to be a lot of Japanese studying in New Zealand, and all over the place too, not just Auckland.
One of my high schools was well out of 'typical' studying areas, and we always had Japanese students... cant speak much for Australia having never been there myself, but I do know that alot of my friends would go there after finishing their studies, and before heading home.
Some of my Japanese friends come and study in Korea too, not korean, but general University subjects. Mostly I think they like to come for the cheap cosmetic surgery :P

[hebiichigo]

I think there are a lot of Japanese in Australia.. Just not where I live! It's because I live in Adelaide :D I really wish there were more Japanese people here.. :( Go to Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane, and many more Japanese people are there. But there's also more Chinese there, too, I think..

There are a lot of international students at my school... Last year there were about 10 Japanese students who came for the whole year. There are none at all this year though.
And I can only speak for high school so far, but there does seem to be more students from Hong Kong and China here than students from other places.

We also have some students from Korea, Indonesia, Brazil... My best friend came from Sudan to Australia, and she lives here with her family so doesn't exactly count as an international student but I thought I'd add her :p

My friend Asuka is studying at highschool in NZ right now. A number of students from her school have gone to NZ for this year.

This is off-topic, I guess, but personally I find it difficult to get to know the students from overseas, especially when they are always in large groups. I know it's natural for them to stick together, because they're in a new place and having familiar people around is sort of a comfort, but even when we would try to know them better, it didn't work very well :souka: (actually it's probably just me haha)

[valeriaqt]

Yeah, but I've studied in private schools all my life, and they were international schools, so they never really had exchange programmes, because its different in public schools I think where families would have to migrate to the countries to send their children to school. In private schools its more boarding, do you think, the amount of jap students depends on whether its a boarding or public school? And in australia, I'm sorry but I found that there were mainly chinese >_< bwhhaaa.. not japanese

[hebiichigo]

Yeah, but I've studied in private schools all my life, and they were international schools, so they never really had exchange programmes, because its different in public schools I think where families would have to migrate to the countries to send their children to school. In private schools its more boarding, do you think, the amount of jap students depends on whether its a boarding or public school? And in australia, I'm sorry but I found that there were mainly chinese >_< bwhhaaa.. not japanese

My school is a private school. Not international, though. We just have a lot of students from overseas. Their families don't live here. They are not here on exchange, they are full-fee-paying international students. They don't board; they stay with host families or some of them rent their own places. We stopped boarding at our school a few years ago.

By the way, do you mind if I ask how long you were in Australia, and where did you stay? It's not all the same.....

And yes, there are a lot of Chinese.. But there are still Japanese :okashii: I am sure of it. I'm not sure if you're getting the idea that there aren't many Japanese here from the schools you've been to or what... but yes there are more Chinese..

I'm also thinking that maybe more Japanese students come to University here, rather than high school.

[valeriaqt]

Yeah, I lived for 2 years in Melbourne, and i went to the best private school there, and the in those 2 years I also went to a public school for 2 months, and I got to know heaps of people from different public and private schools through friends, and their friends. And in all my time in Aus, I only met a few japanese, the asians that were in australia were all mainly chinese, some vietnamese. And definitely the majority of the asian population are chinese in melb... i dont have a problem with that because a lot of my friends in aus are chinese or vietnamese, but it would have been nice if there was a greater immigration there from japan, but actually im happy that there isnt because there are mostly japanese in nz. so its ok

[jieshi]

Yeah, I lived for 2 years in Melbourne, and i went to the best private school there, and the in those 2 years I also went to a public school for 2 months, and I got to know heaps of people from different public and private schools through friends, and their friends. And in all my time in Aus, I only met a few japanese, the asians that were in australia were all mainly chinese, some vietnamese. And definitely the majority of the asian population are chinese in melb... i dont have a problem with that because a lot of my friends in aus are chinese or vietnamese, but it would have been nice if there was a greater immigration there from japan, but actually im happy that there isnt because there are mostly japanese in nz. so its ok

Lol you obviously haven't been looking enough. Melbourne has the highest population of Japanese people in Australia. I live in Sydney (currently in Japan for 1 year) and the amount of japanese kids here is unbelievable. There is even a Japanese school near my house. But you are right in saying there are alot more chinese/ vietnamese in Australia (especially Sydney) which is probably why you would think you don't find Japanese people very often.

[budd]

"Lol you obviously haven't been looking enough."
what i was thinking also + op should concentrate on making friends with people no matter what their country/heritage/ethnicity?
a chinese person from beijing introduced me to a taiwanese person who introduced me to three japanese people

[Gaki]

There are quite alot of Japanese people in London, mainly international students doing a degree of some sort.

I don't understand? and its funny, is it because there are more chinese in england and australia? Im confused...

What does Chinese people have to do with where Japanese people are ? :okashii: