Our first English content creator coverage: www.tiktok.com/@travellingb...

Luckily, we've already been covered by most major news outlets in Japan, like Mainichi, Yomiuri, and Asahi. But we need more English language coverage!

www.asahi.com/sp/articles/...

We have also been talking to the Kyoto Board of Education for the past 13 months, and requesting they end this unfair dispatch system and implement direct hire. Some steps have been taken, but not quickly enough to save our jobs from declining further next school year. We need more attention/focus.

After three collective bargaining sessions, ALTIA CENTRAL offered nothing. NOTHING. Not even a bad faith lowball offer. This, too, is likely illegal under Japanese labor law, and we complained to the Labor Commission--but it takes months for them to investigate.

We had no choice but to strike.

7/10 of us unionized and demanded
1) 250,000 salaries, the minimum to live healthily in Kyoto;
2) To pay our full transportation fee instead of 16,500 cap;
3) To pay our health checks they illegally didn't pay;
4) To extend our contract from 3/25 to 3/31 to help secure our insurance and pension

In Kyoto, there are 41 high school teachers. 31 are JET Program, directly hired by embassies and sent to Boards of Education (BOEs). JETs are paid 330-360,000 a month, and dispatch teachers in the exact same school, doing the exact same job, are paid 210,000, on one year contracts with no security

I'm too young for Bantha Tracks and all, but I am old enough to have been a kid squealing in delight when Hyperspace sent me an animation cel from Droids. I have no idea where that went in the 5+ moves since then... I know exactly where my Insider mags are at least

We have to create some sort of open source amiibo system for indie games to use and collab with other indie games. I would unfortunately buy way too many of these

I only care about the Manaca blob.

Insanely pretty.

I would SO buy this for $12 on clearance at a Circuit City in 2002

They made a Mr Potato Head comic strip 2 years after the Mr Potato Head TV show got canceled?? C-tier brand tie-in strategies make no sense

Yes!