Hourly Wage in Japan

i tick no cuz i'm a lazy bum
jks jks

i just haven't the time really between studying and other things...
like waxing my dolphin...yess....

The part time job wages here are worse.
Most part time jobs offer RM 4 an hour which equals to about 1.20 dollars an hour.
too busy to work now. Studies..

my first actual job wasn't really part time. it was an on-call job, busboy/waiter at wedding receptions. but i only did that for a few weeks. i worked at this promo company for work experience, then got hired as a full timer, although i got paid per project which was FAR LESS than minimum wage. :(

Not as depressing as my first job Danny u_u;; Did it more for the experience as I'm very shy and my friend couldn't do website design and called me up to help. I stayed there for a while but the pay was very bad. The owner ended up selling and I'm still working with the new owners, but only on websites when they get enquiries for them.
I'm now working part-time as a graphic design assistant (or full-time? I'm there almost everyday because it's so busy at the moment! Took a day off today though, xD;) somewhere else with a lot better pay, but still not that great. I prefer website design as I like logic more over creativity.

I'm glad I haven't had to work at a fast food place or restaurant so far, but I don't think I could anyway as I'm hearing-impaired and can't work in crowded/noisy places.

I don't have one yet =/ (And I'm 18 already!) Ah well, once I can get my license then I'll probably get one. I really do want to save up to visit Japan but I also want to save money for investments therefor making even more money ;p, ah well, I guess I'm going to have to juggle my money for different things. :(

When i left school i had a part time job in a restaurant kitchen for bout a year, i though it would be a nice expierience to learn the basics of cooking and housekeeping stuffs there to have it easier when going to live alone.
The paycheck was okay (i had like 550,- DM back then, that's like 270,- Euros or so) considering i was still living with my mother and had it all for myself, i even got food at that restaurant for free. ^^
Besides that part-time job i did freelance as an journalist going to japan a few times because of it and meeting interesting people to interview and stuff.
So i sort of had this part-time job for the reason to learn something and to have money for japan. ^^
When i droped both the jobs finaly i went into the I.T. business, even though i didn't have anything learned yet about it, i became an Administrator at a service company which did run offices all over germany, so i was doing their network with another person, ended up to learn stuff about Cisco devices, Servers and so on.
It turned into fulltime after a half year, had a company car and all that. From there on i only had fulltime jobs.

i thought part time is called pato? well i guess thats a direct translate from english.

well i had a few part time job that is really miserable in pay but that was like 8 years ago.

1) waiter at chinese dimsum - RM4(125 yen)/hr

2) waiter at PIzza Hut - RM4(125 yen)/hr

3) waiter at Eden Catering - RM6(190 yen)/hr - crazily long hours 16 hrs in a strech at times

4) sales promoter at Giodarno - RM5.5(172 yen)/hr

well, what i saw is there most sales assistant job in japan starts from 1000yen, as in what i saw at shibuya and shinjuku area last dec..

wow. That's a lot I think, comparing the wages we get here =_=

You are shocked that there are places that people win 600 yen per hour? Things here are much worse, the minimal wager per month is around 423€ which makes around 2€ per hour for 8 hours of work, most people don't live, they try to survive :(.

Even the recent graduates from university win a crap like 600~800€ per month

Geez, thats seriously low as a wage .... makes me embarrased at how flippantly i spend money in Japan.

Wow, 900-1000 Yen average per hour is a lot compared to here, but knowing the high living cost in Japan, that much might be appropriate ^^;

I never lived in Japan, so I don't know if that's more than enough. What do you think Danny, with the current economy? :p

I've never done a part-time. But I've seen some recruitment advertising in department stores. I saw a wage was about 30Baht/hr (about100Yen) Very low I think...

people fail to comprehend that minimum wage isnt suppose to by u a lexus and a white picket fence house.. its just a starting salary for first timers... and here in the us. minimum wage is hardly ever paid anyways.. exept to those people who include tips (watresses, lap dancers..etc.) so i'm not complaining about a low minimum wage.. but i do agree that the work force in general is underpaid... grossly underpaid by managers that get millions of dollars as a parting gift.. even if they ran it in to the ground cough(yahoo)

enough of my rant :D

Nice Information

thanks ^^

now i'm thinking to go there LOL

Never worked at a part time job and currently got no plans for it. I'm in some really weird program at the moment through the employment service and I would love to work at a part time rather than doing this crap, though I get about 500€ each month for doing nothing, so I'm not poor. But I'm not rich either.

The cash goes to merchandise anyway.
(b・∀・)b

Most of my work has been in my college's library. An... interesting job, but not recommended to those without a fine appreciation of utter futility.

Pay was minimum wage, which was actually pretty high in Oregon, and after about two years of slav... erm, service, my wage was up to a whopping US$8.00 per hour (something like a 10 cent increase per semester).

In my first job years ago I got 8€/hour. That 850 yen really doesn't sound much. Luckily Japanese don't have to pay 12€ in order to buy one manga.

I used to have 2 part timers to fund my uni fees in the UK.

The first was for my dads icecream company and the second for blockbuster video rentals. Both were minimal wage (around £5ph).
Living in London is expensive though as my rent was 100pw alone, and i lived in the ghetto.

Hmmm... part-time wages in Singapore are alright I guess, considering that our cost of living is lower. We get about an average of $6/hour (for non-degree/diploma holders) or about $600-800 a month depending on your luck. X3 I guess that translates to about 400yen/hour?

the most common wages per hour would be $5 for part-time jobs (usually for jobs like sales assistants, receptionists etc)

I think it depends on the employer, whether or not they stick to standard schedules for wages. Some don't and some do. Depends also whether or not you are important or not.

My current job pays me about $38AUD/hr an hour. Which is not heaps but is not too bad. It is raised to $50AUD/hr on Sunday. Obviously I work Sundays :D

So I think my employer is playing slighty above standard.

£3.00 an Hour about a year ago, now.
Very depressing when I spent it all on small stuff.

Nope, never had a part time job.

Well since 850 yen is £4.15 round abouts, its not that much different than what Mcdonalds pays under 18's in the UK. I only got £4.25 when I started. I only got a raise to the over 18's rate in december and it wasnt much more. I'm still on minimum. Which is £4.65 an hour.

1000 yen doesnt seem like much more frankly. (£4.89)

yup yup i work part-time @ a medical supply store, can't complain though i'm getting paid 8bucks hourly

I've had some pretty fun jobs and some not so fun jobs. The worse job was as a graphic designer for a startup classifieds paper. The owner's since of time wasn't based in reality. He liked to hand us full page color ads for car dealerships with a half hour before the paper was due to be signed off and sent to the printers. It was so much fun! </sarcasm> The paper folded in four months.

Never actually held any part time jobs except giving tuitions. But giving tuition got me quite good money and it wasn't tough since it didn't involve manual labour.

850 yen starting pay for McDonalds in Japan...surely much more than what they're offering here which is about 4.50SGD (about 320 Yen)? But seriously, which company wouldn't love to exploit their workers and gain more profit for themselves?

i did have a part time job during holidays... worked as a waiter at a small 24hour restaurant...

insanely low

7hours working time for MYR16 (about 500yen)

average hourly wage: MYR2.30 (70yen)

MYR2.30 (70yen) perhour...and the job is killing me..

wanted to try out other jobs. but the hourly wage at me region for part-timers just around MYR1 - MYR6 (30yen-180yen)

lets see, i've had a few part time jobs

1) working at McDs, i think back then the minimum wage was 7.50 CAD, its been raised to 8 dollars now
2) working at Walmart as cashier, was paid 9.30 before i left
3) working at Air Canada information offices, paid 12.50
4) working at Tim Hortons, paid 8.50
5) working at MedLab as lab technician for co-op, paid 18.50

well, as you can see, i've worked multiple jobs in between my university studies. i'm pretty self-reliant.
also had a paper route when i was just a bit wee lad, and i remember using my first pay cheque to buy a gameboy game.

I can't work part time anymore since i got a lot of responsibilities now a days.

But i've had 2 part times jobs in the past. Daily hours as low as 4 hours a day, and at the time in the state of California, the minimum wage was $6.75

Now i make $12.00/hr and i get a monthly salary aside of my payroll. And i work at least 40 hours a week now compared to my part time jobs in the past.

I used to work at Sainsbury's for my 3 years, the pay was about £5/6 per hour. Thankfully I got a full time job for a year for my placement year at uni. The pay was £17,000. So thankfully I don't have to work for my final year. But I need a job during the summer to pay for my masters degree and for my trip back to Japan in september ^__^!

My first part time job was a library page. Got about $9 USD ( around 900 YEN) / hour, which wasn't too bad when I was 15.5 years old! Very easy going job, spent a lot of time reading Garfield, borrowing PC/Playstation games (yes, my library had PC/Playstation games that you can borrow for free), and surfing the net.

My first real part-time job was working at a paint factory, pouring paint and labeling paint cans. I worked there for about 4-6 weeks for 3 summer holidays.

The work itself was tedious and boring, pretty much similar to any process / factory job I guess. Most toughest things were sometimes the fumes and washing the large tanks that they mix the paint and chemicals in.

Pay was ridiculously fantastic particularly for a 18-19 year old at the time like I was, started from $18 AUD and went up to $20 AUD / hr during the last summer I worked there! Pretty much paid for my uni fees for the first 2 years and saved some away to buy my first car.

I've only had one measly job for like 2 weeks when I was 16. Stacking books for €2/hr and being electrocuted by the metal trolleys we used (they built up static rollin around T_T). It was really boring and after that I haven't worked again.

I guess I'm spoiled, but living at home as I do, the study finance and my allowance pretty much cover everything. Although since I found DC, I've been ithcing to go to Japan and buy more schtuff, which this allowance simply does NOT cover, so maybe now's a good time to get a job. Maybe these holidays.

worked at mickey D's as my first job for exactly a year. left at 7.50/hr.
Reading through the responses did anyone else work a tip job? I worked for Red Robin for 3 years and even though my hourly was 8/hr with tips as a food runner/expo it bumped itself up to 12-15/hr depending on the day. quite a lot for a high school student.
As a server in college it was easily 20/hr. So to all young people- GET A TIP JOB!

DANG here in Oregon the minimum wage is 7.50

When I was in High School, I worked part-time at a retirement home for $4.25/hour. I remember how great I thought it was that I didn't have to work fast food. One summer, I was a temp at a cemetery for $8.50/hour. Talk about a depressing job.

I spent a long time in a retail job (w/the worthless Teamsters Union). My job screwed me from ever having the right hours to attend school while working (but the money was OK) . So after many years of saving I quit and went to a small private school then one year into it I worked PT and a Home Depot to help pay 1/2 my loans.

Been lucky and unlucky after I graduated. Every job I've had since, I was able to get at least 10k more per year than the previous job. But also back in 2001 I was laid off work (software co.) and had to look for a very long time to find another job. Lot's of pressure from every one around me to just take what ever job, but I'm thick headed I guess... just want to be a designer. That's what I paid all that money for school and refused to do anything else.

Three things to remember...

1. Never accept a union job! (why pay some else for a back bone. Use your own) :)
2. Salaries are always negotiable.
3. Believe in yourself.

I wouldnt really say my first job was part time..well it was but it was to help the family out with the store.
It was a small and measly dry cleaners in the middle of nowhere Michigan and I got paid about 40 dollars just working 38 hrs a week. Thats almost a dollar an hour... T_T

Well in the end it was a good experience for me, thats when I realized how hard it was to make an honest buck...and how hard it was to operate steamed machinery -_-;;

A self-employed social recluse. Oh wait, that counts as a full-time job. My bad.

I'm a part-time piano teacher working at home. ^^;
I make 30$ an hour and fire my students when there's too much stuff on my schedule.. a nice job for a high school kid i guess.

Hey my first part-time was at Mc Dee's. The min wage at that time was 6.25$ back then. It was actually hard working there. I worked there for 2 months before I quited.

Arubaito *mumbles and tries to memorize*

I did some part time work as graphic designer for a friend's start up company, unfortunately I think big chunk of my pay went to commuting to and fro from the office (oops) and I was offered a full time job after working there for a little bit (double oops)!

When I was schooling for diploma in design back in SG, I had a brief internship at one of my mom's old friend's design company before too and picked up some photoshop related skills from there ^^ that one, I think there was no pay LOL (or it was not a lot, as usual) but experience is priceless no? :)

I think the draw back of part-timing is usually the pay is so so or below average, unless the client really want/is willing to pay for your skills ^^;

WOW 8.50USD you would be lucky to get 6.00 were i live. I work at a retail store and cant even get that. Lucky Japs.

Interesting. I wish I could get $10/hour at my part time in Best Buy, but I just get crap instead.

My first, and only, part-time job was doing tech support for my university's student newspaper. I got $10 an hour, but I worked so little that it was nothing more than pocket change. Definitely nothing to fly to Japan with and spend on a wild binge in Akiba...

Yikes, $8.5/hour. That is so low that I would never consider it. It is pretty much what I earned when I worked a summer when I was 15-16 lol. Most of my jobs I've had during summer when I was a student has been ~$15/h.

My last job, which was part time, I could earn ~$30/h. I often said no to work though, even though it was very easy and relaxed work. I quit after two months since I wanted to go fulltime NEET. And here I am, still a happy NEET. ^_^

I started at McD's a year and a half ago for $6.75/hr. I now get $8/hr not from of a raise but because the minimum went up.

most of my wages are spent on figures and external hard drives.

Once I graduate, I'll be able to spend 3 times as much on my anime/compute addiction without having to worry about other expenses.

Back when I was in school, I worked at the local supermarket. That got me ~7.50Euro (~11.50 USD) per hour. The average for Germany is about 6.- Euro (~9.50 USD). Today I work as a student assistant with a wage of ~8.50 Euro (~13 USD) per hour. The bad thing about it is that you work overtime without getting paid for it. But it's much more fun when you can put into practice the things you learn in lectures ^_^

The first time I heard "arubaito" I thought I misheard it. I think it's funny how there are so many English words in the Japanese language, but then there is this exception. Are there other Japanese words inherited from German or other non-English European languages?

850 Yen thats about $8.5 usd/Hour, and about £4.16/Hour which isn't that bad in the UK.

The minimum wage is £3.40/Hr for 16-17.
It's £4.60/Hr for 18-21.
And £5.52/hr for 22+.

So if your 22 or over its about 1126 Yen/Hour as a minimum wage, and $11.20 usd/Hour as a minimum wage.

So the japanese McDonalds wage isn't that bad...

Yes I have had a part time job at an amusement park. I don't feel bad for all the people complaining about $10.00USD being too little, I would JUMP at the chance to make $7.50 to $8.00 an hour! When I began working I earned $5.65 an hour and the next year it went up to around $6.35.

I had plenty to spend on, but gas ate around 40% of my money. I do what I can and at the moment I live off of borrowed money from the parents as I earn my degree. It will be nice when I am out of college, starting salary for entry level engineers is 5,348,000 Yen =). I'm pretty sure that is enough to support just one person (me!), a nice house and a 1000% expansion on my hobbies =).

Dude..... minimum wage for 16-17 is that low in the UK??? McDonalds were being kind at £4.25 when I started then....(Last year, October)

That's pretty low man. But with the yen at 99 to a buck, they get paid more than American workers.

i get £6.42 an hour working at tesco, above minimum wage so i cant really complain, not a hard job just a bit boring.

I remember working at a Japanese fast food restaurant in the mall for about $4.75 per hour back in my high school days. Getting free lunch was one plus side maybe but if you work at the restaurant, you end up not wanting to eat their food after knowing what they actually do/cook...

I've never really applied for a part time job. heheh. Went straight to full time as a programmer when I graduated at the university.

Is that japan's minimum wage? Our minimum hourly wage here is around 750 japanese yen. really small. Glad I'm not receiving that kind of wage

My part time job was a game reviewer and layouter during uni time at a local publishing company.

Got paid really low :P maybe about 100usd/month...

but we had fun that time, ah... I miss uni time....

Wow Japan's Macdonalds' pay is really high compared to Singapore's Macdonalds' starting pay.

Compared to 850 yen, the pay here is about S$3, which is about 250 yen. A total ripoff, but people still work for them 0.0

The minimum wage in Vancouver now is CDN$8.5/hr. It was only $7/hr when I was in highschool. But to me, $7/hr is a lot at that time since I only have $40 a month allowance from my parents at that time. =P

I'm currently unemployed, but studying (which doesn't quite justify me being unemployed)...
But I worked part time job (when I was in university)... my salary was about R$450 a month working mornings only.

That's about 225US$ on today's currency conversion... but at the time it was less than 120US$...

McD's pays about R$2,50 an hour in Brazil, which is about 1,25USDs...

McD's is well known as one of the lowest paying jobs here in Brazil, along with some other fast food chains.

Minimum wage in Brazil improved quite a bit in the past couple of years, but it's still nothing compared to Japan.

The monthly minimum wage here is today 415R$... which is double of what it was 6 years ago.

Still, it's about 215US$ A MONTH. Almost not enough to buy food to live.

So there you go... that's why lots of brazilians choose to go to other countries to work. Like Japan! :D

People like... let's say.. me. :P Even though I have a choice to work in Brazil, since I'm graduated and all... but my reasons are kinda different anyways.

More because I admire Japan, than because I need the money. I think I'd rather live a modest life in Japan than be rich in Brazil... but I'm giving some time to make up my mind. Also, I don't think my parents wants to leave Brazil...

My wage is $10 to $15 an hour. It depends on what I do. Sometimes I fix the computer and other times I book appointments.

In France, the minimum hourly wage is 8.44€ ie around 130Y.

Well, it's a better pay compared to Singapore.. Some company pay you just SGD$4 per hour which adds up to SGD$40 per day..

That's why I'm going to save up some money to go to Japan.. Might take awhile..

I have yet to work, I soon will though... probably by the end of this year.

My first job was a Full Time internship over the summer. I think I made 9$USD/hr. there. When I moved to part time, I made $10.25, up to $10.55 after my first review (woo hoo) an hour.

Everything sense has been full time jobs.

My first part time job was at a printing centre when i was 17. Got paid $22AUD (approx $20USD) per hr and on weekends it was $44AUD (approx $41USD) per hr. I even got superannuation of around $150AUD per week(retirement fund money). Currently doing accounting on a fixed wage which is nicer cause i get to take it a little easier than hourly work.
So a tip for ppl in aus looking for casual/part time work: get a job that's protected by a union. They generally pay better than places like McDonalds.

hey i havent done part time job yet but will start full time job soon enough.
i want to ask to "nivexus" hey i am also studying to become an accountant and want to move to australia so can you tell me what course are you studying i will complete my ACCA in december hopefully.

Speaking of part time jobs, the pay at KFC in singapore is roughly 4 dollars an hour, which is roughly 288 yen (McDonalds is worst @ 2.50~3 an hour). And although I used to have a job offering me 8~12 bucks an hour, I still gave it up after a while thanks to the enormous amount of workload they dump at you everytime.

The only good pay amount comes after you've graduated from university with a doctorate or after you've migrated to another country. We're seriously underpaid even with the relevant skills in singapore.

I was really surprise and happy at the same time when I see the part-time wage in Japan was at 850 yen on average. The most I have ever worked for was SGD 6/436 yen per hour.

I really agree with Elozt E. Elric on how underpaid we are. Its basically cheap and manual labour most of the times. Its not really the pay that matters the most sometimes. There is still the employer. Some of my friends and family members do whine to me sometimes that their employer is a real tyrant.

I never had "part time", but I've worked full time over a month in the summer last year, as a bagger in the supermarket. Boy, my feet hurt so bad.

why is everyone direct converting the wage without considering the living expense of particular country?

850yen/hour? seriously? McD here only pays RM3.50 = 100 yen. lol

Really can´t, in Chile is either full time or nothing, zero flexibility.
By the way, the minimum wage is about 300 usd a month, wich sucks and is wath most people earn.

Haven't worked before... Still leaving with my parents... OMG! I sound just like a loser! NOOO!

Was submitting a rather long comment which got me an error message. Which is kinda weird and pretty irritating as I forgot what I'd typed in. orz

BTW my part-time job pays SGD5.50 an hour. I think slightly lower than the average, but doesn't seem so bad as my fellow colleagues are pretty okay and stuff. No point working a slightly higher paying job only to face a nasty heck of a boss. A job is still a job. It feeds you and preps your wallet for your future figurine preorders.

I think it all depends on how the situation in your countries are. Unfortunately Germany gets more and more expensive these days...

Normally, part time jobs around here are offered with hourly wages of between 3,50€ and 5€. However, if you earn less than a certain amount per month, you get financial aid from the government.

My first job was at my university and I got something around 7,50€ per hour. At the moment, I am working as part time researcher for the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and get almost 10€ per hour, which is very cool! ^^

Interesting, it seems min wage is higher in japan then in USA. 850-900 is about $8-$9 dollars (rounding off). Currently USA min wage (as far as I remember and I hope I'm not wrong) is about $5.25. People been trying to raise that to at lest $7 - $8 or more for a while now. Though current government does not seem to agree.

I worked as part time during my college life. I was fortunate to work as part time contractor/consultant for exactly what I was studying in college. I was paid from $15 - $30 (1,452 - 2,905 yen) an hour. It was nice doing exactly what I was going to do after I graduate. Gave me extensive work experience that helped me get my current job. Also, was nice because it was part time and it did not interfere with my studying. Most of my jobs came via Monster.com web site.

California just raised their min. wage to 8 USD per hour; it used to be 7.50 USD before the start of 2008. So it is pretty much on par with the Japanese min. wage (given the US economy is the fail).

I've worked a few. I worked at a hotel for $6 an hour. A graphic designer for $8.
I currently have two part time jobs. A lab assistant at the college here for $7.50 and at the newspaper for $9.85. Decent wages for a college student. The unfortunate part of it all is that these are pretty high wages for my area.
Unfortunately the minimum wage going up is like the people making more then minimum wage taking a pay cut. We won't be seeing an increase in our wages, and the price of goods will go up to compensate for the higher wages.

The first and only part time job I had was at the Archeology Department. A friend of mine got me the job and we went there together. Our work was cleaning up the mud from stuff they dug up and helping out a civil defense guy. I had an hourly wage of CHF 10, if I remember correctly. Was quite a nice pay for a junior high student.

The former part of the job was dead boring, sitting in a room and shrubbing creamic shards. At least I had a radio to listen to.

But the latter part was rather interesting. The Archeology Department was also responsible for maintaining the WW2 bunkers along the part of the Rhine flowing through the Lake of Constance. You know... Just in case the Germans invades Switzerland.

Most of them are somewhere in the middle of nowhere, so we got around for quite a bit. One was particulary interesting since it was in the middle of a willage. To cover it up, they put a house-like front around it.

Another interesting one was the "sex-bunker". There was quite a bit of used handkerchiefs and condoms lying around (good thing we had gloves :). And on our second visit, we caught a couple doing it in a car. Needless to say they were quite embarassed :)

Worked at a garden centre while I was at school. The money was rubbish! One day the manager made me sweep up the car park.

Now we have a minimum wage in the UK, and our rubbish jobs are mostly done by immigrants.

I did a... wasn't really a part time job though - distribution of flyers >> 1000 piece = SG$20 (around 140 yen?)

Distributed > eat > transport > earn nothing? T.T

thinking of working at Mac or pizzahut soon or should I be digging out something for sale?

I get Paid $8.10 at PetsMart part time as a cashier. I just started working there a couple months ago. I consider that to be pretty good for the types of jobs there are around where I live.

The minimum wage anywhere here is $8, or 800 yen. For people with less than 500 hours of work experience, it`s $6, or, you guessed it, 600 yen.

BC stinks.

Minimum wage in France is 6,63 €/h after tax which is 1,031.04 yens (8,44 €/h before tax).
But you have to know that japan is the most expansive country in the world (Swiss is ranked second if I remember well). France is a really good country for unqualified jobs.

D: Actually I don't know why the other Singaporeans here are complaining about the hourly wage here? It isn't the best but at least we aren't being paid really crappy pay.

Food here is really cheap (and good, if you know where to find it) and it's almost impossible to find a meal for the same price in Japan. Plus, rental in Japan is high, no?

No offence but I think some of my fellow countrymen are having illusions about wages. O:

My first job was doing translating so I was paid more than minimum wage. Funny thing is that they have been raising the wage dramatically over the past 6 years, to the point that I ended up working a minimum wage job for a little while last year in between jobs and I was paid the same amount I made in that translating job 6 years ago!

The minumum wages in Japan seen almost the same here in the U.S. Id do not know have some one can get by on making that much here in America much less Japan.

At least they do not have to worry about medical benefits. Japan has a Universal Health Care Plan; unlike us. A major deduction of my pay is health care (privatized).

I know that the Senate has been trying to push for increasing the minium wage for some time now though to help combat stagflation that has lead to an increase in poverty, dept, and foreclosures.

There is a small part of me that is against the massive minuim wage increase because what I make now after going up on the seniorty scale might be almost equal or close to someone who is realively new.

In addition to my personal comments. It might be bad for soem small businesses in Japan. It is an addeed cost in this period. I know that the afects of the recession here in America are starting to affect the Asian Market (Maily due to oil.)

mine is MYR 4 per hour ~ 128 yen.
WTH..not to forget akiba stuff are cheap there in japan..
so 850yen per hour is really a luxury..of course it'll not be the same if u guys are talking bout having a family in japan with that kind wage..since im comparing with students there and here at my place..but still, it doesnt mean MYR 4/hr is enuff for a living in KL,MY anyway..duh.

My first job only payed $5.15 an hour which right now is only about 461.126 Yen. I loved that job and worked there for 3 years just cause it was all friends who worked there. but the pay really did stink.