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Japan ramps up efforts to help expats land U.N. jobs

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Participants, who can be from any of 60 participating countries including Japan that are underrepresented in the U.N.'s worldwide staff, must speak English or French fluently and pass an exam.

Here's the problem! Seems to me the people here that want more Japanese represented in the UN had better get the UN to use a different English Proficiency Exam, make them use the EIKEN! Then the world will truly see the wonderful English abilities of Japan!

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This planet needs one language and one currency that everybody can use. Regions can also have their own percular language and currency. The UN would be more practical.

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Nationalism rearing its ugly head again, I done think staffing at the UN should be based according to the contributions of a nation. Going by such reasoning nationals of smaller nations though qualified won't work at the UN.

Again Japans selfish reasoning just like with the unesco world heritage

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"We are open to everybody -- we do not discriminate and we would love to have everybody on board who believes in the mandate of the United Nations,"

I'm skeptical that the average Japanese man (because we know it will be men) shares the same values as the UN. They have grown up immersed in propaganda and tatemae, taught from a young age not to think but just defer decision making to whoever is older. The UN needs more lateral thinkers who are willing and able to speak out against moral corruption when they see it.

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This is a 180° turn from a few decades ago when few Japanese were seen anywhere in the world in some UN organization. They couldn’t get back into the national workforce because their experience didn’t count, it was not suitable for the Japanese market. I wish them luck.

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