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Japan-based backend software dev and small-scale farmer.
US citizens are required to file but, depending upon income, don’t need to pay anything. It does make contributing to US retirement vehicles a lot more difficult since many need to be contributions on taxable income. Citizens also need to be super careful about trying to use foreign retirement schemes like ISAs and the like because of PFIC rules.
~ US citizen living in Japan.
First-past-the-post and not wanting to see the conservatives win makes it seem not super strange to me (though I live overseas so my understanding may be incomplete).
A carefully planned and executed action could be good (I don’t know France well enough to comment for sure there) but doing it right would likely take years.
What’s happening in the US is tragic and haphazard (and likely illegal, but fat lot of good that designation does these days).
It’s a super easy mistake to make (have done it trying to get to the Japanese consulate to get my visa before moving to Japan).
It is really easy to mess up and end up on the Ambassador Bridge. I did it going to the Japanese consulate in Detroit but, luckily, there is a little u-turn place if you notice quickly enough (or at least was… and I’m not sure how legal that u-turn was, but I’m sure they see it all the time).
He’s not doing it alone. The Republic administration and all its enablers, corporate and private from money and votes, is endorsing this behavior.
Do we have reactors that would work properly (or, my bigger worry, whose safety systems will work properly) in such a low-grav environment? I assume they don’t mean the type that use heat from decay like old probes
We’ve cut way back on meat as well, though part of it for me honestly was the environmental impact. The only time we have beef is on special occasions and not at home (so a couple of times a year). Our main proteins are chicken (domestic), seafood, pork (split between domestic and Canadian depending upon what’s available), and tofu in probably roughly that order. We have other sources of protein as well, but I think of those as the “mains” as it were.
I’ve moved to eating more non-meat than meat and skipping beef at home when I do, but I have never been able to fully convert. I was a pescatarian for almost 1.5 years in my youth and that was mostly doable, but still very tough and never really got easier.
A number of the existing alternatives involve gluten which I can’t have anymore (I rather liked seitan when I had it).
I currently have a vegetable farm and, for as much of the year as I can, eat what I grow outside for veg so they’re certainly not scary.
Pity American firms in China
No, I don’t think I will; buy that ticket, take that ride.
There have been several popes in my lifetime and the only one I really remember going was jp2, and that wasn’t even a huge story in the scheme of things.
One can apply for PR via spousal route after 3 years of marriage at least one year of that being in Japan. She might be on a work status and not spouse/dependent of japanese national, for whatever reason.
On a work status, shed need to notify immigration withing 14 days of losing her job, but there are ways to get time for job hunting. (14 days from death of spouse on spouse visa, for that matter)
I have spouse status, but my PR application is in (spousal route, though I was almost at 10 years working in Japan to go that route anyway).
In my specific case, my status isn’t tied to a job. In the average foreign worker’s case, there’s generally an allowed job-hunting period if employment ends on a work SoR. If unable to find a job then, yes, you would have to leave after your status expires.
They were sitting at the end of the seats at a station and supposedly they were expected to get up and move to another seat whenever someone else wanted to sit?
10 years in Japan now and I have zero clue what this might be referring to. Unless they were marked as priority seats, anyone can sit there. They might have been loud or disturbing without realizing it or something?
Nobody would be speaking on public transport and it would be deemed impolite.
It’s not impolite to talk, it’s impolite to be loud. It’s fantastic, IMO, especially on the early, packed trains going into work in Tokyo and the like; the extra stress of noise is not needed and, many days, it served as a naptime.
Their streets in Japan are clean while there barely are any public garbage bins available.
This very much depends upon the area. They’re also clean because people are cleaning up the shit in front of their houses basically every morning. I used to live between some bars and a hotel and those streets were not clean.
This was presumably just some government-job-specific pension. Japanese law requires paying into a pension scheme so it is doubtful that this is all he had. We also have iDECO and NISA which are like IRA/401k systems.
That wouldn’t surprise me. I have always been a night owl and maybe slightly non-24. I can get up early, but a single late night will destroy my schedule as my body reverts to that and takes days or weeks to recover.
My two cents with a decade in Japan under my belt:
Edit to add that the above excludes anything related to immigration as I don’t really know the right answer/balance there; the above are things that could help immediately without as much handwaving about “destroying our cultural values!” that some complain about by suggesting such daring things as married Japanese couples having separate surnames (illegal in Japan; if both are Japanese, they must unify to one name).
Edit 2: just saw this elsewhere talking about some changes coming: https://leglobal.law/countries/japan/looking-ahead-2025-japan/
Doesn’t help what? Dealing with the systemic issues of work culture, sexism, etc. would be a good start to helping.
Nah. I’d rather they make something with the size, scale, mechanics (referring for combat and such but not same abilities, etc.), and storytelling of FFVI. Optionally some fancier graphics and preferably no grinding anywhere.