Toshihiro Nagoshi and His Yakuza 4 Hummer Limousine
Thu, 18/03/10 – 23:16 | No Comment

Today is the launch of Yakuza 4 [龍が如く4 伝説を継ぐもの] in Japan, and of course the creator Toshihiro Nagoshi [名越 稔洋] would be going around various places to promote the game launch. But since its Yakuza …

Related Posts with Thumbnails Read the full story »
Home » Akiba News, Otaku

Meido Qualification Test?

Submitted by Alafista on Wednesday, 20 June 20072 Comments

Think its simple to be a maid? Think again. Maids in Tokyo have to undergo proper training and even take a qualification test by the end of this year. Now thats what I call professionalism.

In fact, they have actually setup an association called the “Nippon Maid Association” 2 months back in April. They offer to conduct maid seminars starting in September and a maid qualification test starting in December.

Apparently, the association are unhappy with the current level of service. Previously as long as you were female and was willing to don a maid uniform, basically anyone could be a maid. Now they aim to introduce proper training so that this profession could become more respected and recognised.

Maybe someday we will even see the meido cafe in Singapore sending their own employees to take the certification test.

Related Posts with Thumbnails

Tagged as: , , ,

2 Comments »

Leave a comment!

Add your comment below, or trackback from your own site. You can also subscribe to these comments via RSS.

Be nice. Keep it clean. Stay on topic. No spam.

You can use these tags:
<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

This is a Gravatar-enabled weblog. To get your own globally-recognized-avatar, please register at Gravatar.