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Japan-based backend software dev and small-scale farmer.
I fail to see what this has to do with visiting a couple of cities for a week or two as a tourist. If your argument is that a person cannot come from a country that has more rights or better wealth than another country, the dynamics to visiting anywhere get really weird.
I live near China but don’t go there because I don’t like the government. However, I’d love to see many archeological sites like Xi An and other places.
Because in Japan, they’d be had for battery. Even self defense in Japan as defined as enough, and only enough, to flee in most cases; punching someone who punches you doesn’t qualify if you can remove yourself from the situation otherwise.
Not for long enough. Shame that Japan didn’t have the balls to do it when he was a being a dick here.
smear wasabi on sushi
There is nothing wrong with this. Sushi cehfs put it on the underside. If you want more, put it on top. It’s generally considered bad manners to mix soy sauce with wasabi and dunk but, to be honest, I see that fairly frequently here in Japan as well. Mixing soy sauce and wasabi to pour over chirashi is fine.
The only thing wearing gloves does is keep your hands clean.
That’s not true when gloves are used properly (only put on with clean hands, changed when appropriate, etc.). Of course, the number of people/places that do not do those things…
Cilantro tastes like bug spray to me and no amount of eating it anyway has helped and any significant amount ruins whatever I’m eating. That said, the only time I bring it up is in conversations like these.
Unscrew it. Throw it away. Keep your spices away from light and air.
If it makes you feel better, Japanese has the same problem (and I’m sure other languages).
It probably varies by area. If a significant enough portion stops eating meat, it may drive down demand. That could drive down price, result in a one-time sale to lower old stock (if sudden) and then back to status quo, or have no impact at all (this more depends on the source and distribution network I think)
And our service is generally getting worse and costing more. JR companies are private, for-profit companies trying to squeeze as much profit to pay their upper members crazy bonuses at the expense of the people.
I stopped. Anyone who wanted to keep in touch with me was given other methods of doing that. Anyone else who couldn’t be bothered to spend 20 extra seconds? Not worth having in my life.
5000 yen is like $43.50 CAD. I think you have an extra zero
You need to keep working on language. It takes a lot of time to learn your first non-native language and then gets easier. As with anything, language-learning is a skill that can be learned.
That or limit yourself to english-language countries. I can’t stand people who move somewhere, never learn the language, etc. Japan has a ton and the government is finally adding language requirements to some statuses (though some of the worst offenders are English teachers who will not have any such restriction)
I mailed in my primary vote from overseas weeks ago. Other mail I’ve sent since has arrived with my family in that and another state. I voted for the progressive candidate that was anti-ice. We’ll see just how fucked democracy is for those of us overseas voters
I don’t mind a stately arch in general, but that thing is hideous as is the person wanting it
Usually 8 +/- a bit. I have become a lighter sleeper in my 40s and do wake up at least once most nights (excluding earthquakes because that’s not something I can help). My neighbor starts work really early and has to drive a heavy vehicle so that starts around sun-up (5:30 now but will be 4:30am in mid summer) so I try to adapt my schedule. It’s not that bad since my second job is farming and it’s much better in the early morning before the oppressive heat and humidity here.
Before I had to wait on slow 1099s: as soon as the IRS and the software I used had the forms all set up.
Now: whenever the last slow-assed company sends me a 1099 which is sometime in March null
I want to do things ASAP and have them done, so that’s hard. As an overseas citizen, I do get an automatic 6-month extension, but I’ve never had to come anywhere close to the normal deadline, even.
People and land become “the stuff” and are abused and traded as they wish.
I don’t think I’ve heard a genuine complaint from a Japenese person about Japan
I have and plenty. It depends on the person, the setting, and how well you know them.
Japan probably won’t do anything more. I believe he has an entry ban for some time here (probably 5 years from whenever he was gone), but I don’t recall the exact details.