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Japan-based backend software dev and small-scale farmer.
Is going to be earlier and waking just before things start heating up an option? Here in rural northeastern Japan, we do that to beat the heat of the day for work outside (getting up right around 4 or a bit before when days are their longest) and a lot of folks are asleep by 20 or 21.
OP: retired at 35.
It didn’t sound like money was the issue here.
I need to get away from the gun in my safe calling me.
Running away only works for so long. As the great poet once said, wherever you go, there you are.
I would recommend professional help.
… as someone in his 40s, this post makes me irrationally angry. Write. Don’t know what to write? Write something, anything, anyway until it starts to go somewhere. Read more, both authors you like/admire and maybe something you don’t to see what else is around.
Oh yeah? Well, I’ve pooped at a significant fraction of the speed of sound
I’ve seen a couple of things in Japan if that datapoint matters. Twice about accepting USD, and a few times getting mad about people not speaking English.
I’ve seen people (not just Americans, though) do things that are illegal here because they couldn’t imagine it being illegal in their home country. Cycling after any alcohol, cycling with earphones, cycling holding an umbrella, various waste disposal laws, picking up money and not reporting it (technically theft here even if it’s forgotten change in a vending machine, but that never gets enforced that I’ve seen), and just other minor stuff.
Americans in particular love to consider self defense as “if you say something I don’t like or throw the first punch, I can fight you” which is just wrong in Japanese law (only the amount of force needed, and no more, to get out of the situation to safety is legal; you can’t punch someone just because they punched you).
Edit: also pocket knives; we have very strict laws here and lots of Americans in particular (but I’m sure others) carry them without thinking and can get in huge trouble for it.
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.
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.
Well, that settles it. There goes my vote for 2008 Clinton.
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.
I’m cheaper! I’ll do it for having my student loans paid off, my house paid off, and some spending money; I don’t even need the wife!
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)
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.
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)
Dude’s electronics should have been seized and searched immediately.
I wasn’t offended/bothered at all.
You say “/s” but, for anyone else reading, Japan is considered rabies free so that would certainly be a big deal we’re it the case.
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.
US citizen living abroad. Not going to happen in one presidential term and the US has probably permanently fucked itself in terms of special currency/status/soft power ever getting back to the level it was.