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> Honor, sadly, doesn't pay for grad students

Are you kidding? Grad students are well known to receive trivial monetary pay. Most of their pay is in honor.

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They still need to eat, and that trivial monetary pay component must come from somewhere . . .
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Not really, there is a promise of a better career in the future.
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Not usually how things work in Japanese culture
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I'd like you to elaborate more on your answer
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Are people not paid?
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