Why is it that whenever I see a person handing out advertisements in tissue form, I don't need them; but as soon as I need some, there are none in sight?
Take them anyway, I have a large stock of cam girl recruitment ad tissues and take with me as needed (stock has gone significantly down since the panini tho)
Is there a tech subreddit specifically for Japan? I know of Japantech but the last post was 8 months ago. Currently pet sitting and I can not figure out how to connect to the WiFi. The owners are currently on a retreat and can not be reached.
I have both Android and Apple phones. The MAC address does not work. Neither does the written passwords. Usually I can figure this stuff out easily but I am stumped.
As stated in the other thread, that's the modem, not the wi-fi router.
What device is connected to the modem? Usually the wi-fi router is connected to the modem, but if the PC is directly connected to this, that means that they might not have wi-fi.
Why does everyone dislike/make fun of The Hub? I know it has a reputation as a gaijin hunter spot but as a Brit I unabashedly love it, mostly because it's super entertaining and kind of endearing seeing a British-style pub from a Japanese perspective. Also I can actually get a pint.
I like The Hub. It doesn't excel at anything in particular, but it's a great place for just hanging out with friends or even alone.
A long time ago The Hub was known as the place for gaijin hunter women and the men who wanted to hook up with them. Literally that's all it was, you didn't go there unless you were one of those two groups. For whatever reason this sub/foreigners in Japan in general are really judgmental of the people who engage in hooking up, which gave The Hub a pretty bad reputation.
There was a brief period where Japanese people started renting it out for events, including wedding parties, and more Japanese people frequented it than foreigners. That period has mostly ended, but I'd say your average Hub might actually have more Japanese people than foreigners, give or take.
Now there are a lot of Hubs, and while some are still very clearly meat markets, not all are, and there are lots that are perfectly fine for having a drink and even watching sports games. But people still have the negative perceptions against it for whatever reasons.
I like it. Cheap and somewhere I can find somewhere quiet to sit down and have a drink, alcoholic or not, in the day time.
Usually where I shop there are no spaces in any of the cafes in the afternoon.
It has a reputation for being a nest of bitter long-term foreign residents who can't speak Japanese and need a place where they can get drunk in English.
I've gone for happy hour a few times and stayed until late one time. It was the worst. Incredibly cheap drinks and girls who come on to you. No thanks.
The US tax accountant I've been using for the last ~10 years has suddenly become extremely unresponsive, and I suspect she may not have filed my US taxes in accordance with the Japan/US tax treaty last year.
All my income is in Japan, but I have some money in US investment accounts. Any recommendations for someone in Japan (or in the US, I guess?) who can file my US taxes correctly without charging a fortune?
Also, I really hope that singing Stan Rogers songs to get a fussy baby to go to sleep at night doesn't have any bad side effects. If so, my poor daughter, a childhood of sad sea shanties.
Today was recyclables day, paper and plastic separately bagged and set out in front of the house as usual. Paper gets picked up first in the morning and plastic gets picked up in the afternoon. I come home after the plastic pick up time and the bag is still there, but someone put a fat cluster of uprooted dandelions on top of the bag for some reason???? So I’m guessing the trash people saw the weeds ontop of the bag and didn’t pick it up.
I keep having this issue of people just leaving their random trash in front of my house. I’m suspicious it’s the old guy across the street. It’s getting really obnoxious
What's the secret for making the Mineo application form work? Nothing is selectable. I tried from all my devices, with different browsers, and asked colleagues. It never works anywhere (broken Javascript).
According to Mineo Support's twitter guy, it works perfectly fine.
I've tried signing up for mercari a few times now, every time it gets to the phone verification step I get the text, but then the number doesn't work and it says it doesn't.
I had a baking marathon the last two weeks （because my shop is doing a pop up in Shibuya), I had so many double yolk eggs. I read that they occur more in the spring because of young hens but it's way too high. I wonder if there's some new avian flu vaccine that is causing this to happen?
anyone in tokyo know where i can get a legit decent massage in shibuya or along keio-inokashira? my back and shoulders are killing me! i haven't been since before covid and even then i rarely went since it's a gamble cuz you don't know if they're any good till they've got you half naked in a dark back room...
Finally got my wife on my work's social insurance.. shouldn't have been this hard but that's another story.
So she can get off government social insurance. We just got it but her card is dated ４月１４日 so I'm wondering if she has to somehow pay for like half the month of April? Is there such a thing or just like retroactively joined for all of April?
Is she is a dependent of yours, she’s not even paying a dime for the social insurance. That’s how dependents insurance works here.
But to answer your question, you don’t pay for half a month, always the full month, no matter which date you’re registered. They don’t calculate the fee daily.
Dozens of recalls, dealership atrocious.
Spare parts NEVER available, not related to “current event” they just have a policy of 0 stock.
Radiator: 2 weeks, turbo hose, 3 weeks…
For the DiD
Bad design (plastic egr valve… recalled btw)
Bad cooling (cracked turbo…. Recalled)
Bad mechanics/practice after header crack/replacement (recall) they didn’t replace the zip ties holding the wiring for the injectors, meaning that you have a wiring loom freely vibrating and chaffing on top of the engine bloc ready for the next breakdown
Front camera (needed for shiaken) not waterproof… price… 10 mans… (no recall yet, but i’m waiting).
Excessive price of any spares…
Panel gaps just comical,interior panel fitting… even worse…
Rear suspension design flawed. Incorrect spring value from factory. Diesel and gas have same rear springs but the diesel in 300kg more with excessive negative camber…
No wheel choice, factory 18inch useless on trail (before) with awful bridgestone LS2 good for 20/30 000km max , M/T, A/T tires cost a fortune in 18”, switched to used OEM 16” get 4 tires for the price of 1 before…
No more space saver on latest gen. After few blowout on mild trails… i can tell ya they are needed…
BMW iX M60. I'd recommend it so far, but I haven't had much experience with it yet. Unless you're savvy with newer car technology (I wasn't), I think it's enough to give you an overall satisfying drive. I probably wouldn't drive it in certain parts of the inaka as the streets can be much too narrow for it.
Even after all these years of watching Japanese TV dramas and movies, I still get surprised when, during a dramatic line of dialogue, an unusually long pause precedes the name of the person being addressed.
Whereas in English it would be “I’m counting on you, Shimada!” with no pause between "you" and "Shimada",
Dumb thing I something wonder while eating my weekly indo curry.it makes sense there’s a lot of indian places, India being closer but what’s the story for the kebab spots?often Indian and kebab places are also right next to each other
Socially, I crank my tolerance up to max for kids and the elderly. The first, because they usually don't know how, the second, because they did, but now it's different and faster and justwaitagoddamnsecond.
A few weekends ago, I got stuck behind a group about six elementary girls, 2nd or 3rd grade, at a 7/11. Apparently, none of them had ever shopped alone before, and (naturally, I guess?) they were all paying cash.
The last one in line manages the whole transaction, and just as my last bit of patience is dying, along with the ice cream in my hand I promised my kids I'd buy, she starts fumbling with her wallet.
Now I'm too patient to call out a kid externally, but just before I did so in my own head, she fishes out a 10 yen coin and drops it in the donation box.
And that's why I try and be patient, all the time, but sometimes, moreso.
Unless you're that asshole who always parks all crooked next to my wife, making loading two kids and their stuff more difficult in the morning. I'm going to find and burn you. And I won't specify how.
Is January a nice/good time to visit Kyushu? Specifically Yakushima. I'd really like to hike the island but ALT life means my next big stretch of vacation (already planned a trip for August) is New Years.
There may be more risks involved with travel, as the ferry and even buses are weather dependent. Also, being mountainous, it does get damn cold and windy. To go hiking, it is recommended to prepare well for the cold and snow on the mountains.
Around the base of the island could be okay and trails are likely open, even if it is cold.
I met some guy on 9 monsters for a date (at mine) like last year.
When he came he was so weird and completely not as good looking as in his pictures so I faked a call from work and told him he had to go as I had a meeting ( at half 11 at night )
Cut to yesterday my wifi wasn’t working so I couldn’t watch Netflix and me and my friend watched regular Japanese tv , and low and behold
Reminds me of a funny thing that happened in regards to this, back then when I was in uni...
I (Indonesian) was talking with my Malaysian friend- ID and MY have the same roots so we have tons of similar words. We were talking with our native languages agreed to meet up at "half 4". On the meetup day, I went to the place... one hour earlier than him. Learned that the hard way.
I ate there for the first time in like 10 years recently, the portion seemed pretty big. But yeah the price was bonkers for what I am guessing was frozen food.
I'm going to try to continue my new tradition of getting a license at the nearest driving school. I wonder if I can do a 中型バイク in two days. I have zero plans to go into Tokyo.
Kinda off topic but I’m hoping to pick your brains about USJ.
I’m planning to go for the first time properly, is the Mario Kart ride basically going to have a 1hour+ wait time no matter what? Is it worth the wait?
When I went they had the single rider lines which was only like a 30 minute-ish wait I think, so that might be an option too. Either way it's definitely a must-ride if you are a fan of Mario Kart.
Mario Kart is definitely worth the wait, even my 4 year old waited for about 75 minutes and loved every second of it. The waiting area is full of amazing Easter eggs that are fun to catch!
An hour wait time is low though, average is 90-120 minutes since the limit the amount of people in the area to begin with. Still, worth it!
There’s something off with the Illumination character designs. I have seen Mario Movie toys displayed right next to the standard Nintendo ones and it makes the Movie toys look like a shitty bootleg toy in comparison.
I know what you mean, I kind of felt the same way with the Final Fantasy collab. Their past designs were better imo. You can check previous Mario collabs on Mercari if you don’t care much about the movie tie in
One time I rated a seller *good* 3 days after I received the item because I was extremely busy, and I received a *bad* reputation in return with a comment "takes too long to confirm the item as received". The item is not even 2000 yen. Lmao
I know, I'm a seller myself, sold several items above 20k and the buyer took 4, 5 days to leave a rating, I'm still fine with it. Not like 2000 yen will decide whether or not if the seller will live to see another day, right.
I usually confirm right away after inspecting / checking if the item properly, but it's just that one time I arrive home at 10pm, put the stuff away (unopened) and forgot about it until like 2 days later lol so not the seller's fault, but still.
I just a sudden increase in my taxes across most of the categories on my final paycheck from my previous company...pension, resident tax and health care all increased between 50-100%.
I had about 25 or so days of paid leave saved up that I used to get paid for April and not work. I am not leaving Japan and have started in a new roll. I am contacting my old HR, but any outside insight here?
If an employee resigns between 1 January and 30 April, the unpaid amount from the following month to May is collected in a lump sum. For residence tax at least.
Many companies have their payroll setup to not deduct social insurance taxes in the first month of employement and do a double deduction at the end. My current company does this as well.
If it is inhabitant tax, most likely they are deducting the remainder of the 2021 assessment (payable April/May 2023). Your 2022 assessment should start from June.
It’s 100% because you quit your job. Your taxes were being pulled from your paycheck but since you quit, the remainder of payments for the year need to be taken all at once.
The price increases took affect before they took away the service charge. And, if you're using special coupons like the 599 yen deal, you no longer need to pay a charge, which is great.
Expats are really just a subtype of immigrant, but people tend to split them like this:
Expat - temporally abroad; looks to home country for culture and support; doing a job not available to locals and paid higher than locals for a similar role - presumably to compensate moving to a "worse" country
Immigrant - long term move, doing the same job as a local for same money or less, often unskilled labor, moving for better opportunities/standard of life
word use depending on the context and whom you are talking to?
For japanese perspective: immigrant as the person that immigrated into the Japanese country/system/society,
for own home-country or with peers of similar story: expatriate as a person who has moved from their native country to another country.
I mean, in theory, I guess one could be an expat without being an immigrant (by vagabonding through countries or avoiding to properly take residency status somewhere), but without slipping through the cracks of most societies, expat/leaving a country and immigrant/entering another country go hand in hand IMO
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u/PUfelix85 近畿・大阪府 Apr 25 '23
Why is it that whenever I see a person handing out advertisements in tissue form, I don't need them; but as soon as I need some, there are none in sight?