After graduating from university in Tokyo, I joined a television station. I worked as a news reporter and director before leaving the company. Then I moved to Vancouver, Canada when I was about to turn 30.
Here is the report of study abroad from Japan to Vancouver, Canada written by a Japanese Journalist Mayuko WATANABE who studied at Simon Fraser University, PBD in Communications from 2005 to 2006.
1. why I chose Canada - its image and reality
Are you thinking about Canada as a place to study abroad? I wonder if you have chosen Canada only by your image. Based on my own experience, I would like to say out loud that images are often wrong.
What you need to select a country is accurate information and your own “criteria”. In this first article of this series, I would like to talk about my criteria when I chose Canada as a study abroad destination (covered in images) and the reality that I found out only after actually living in the country.
As a neat and tidy Japanese traditional woman (ha-ha), I prioritized ......<Read More in Japanese>