Anybody know why some Japanese men and women don’t wear wedding rings at all?
Was talking about this with my wife during the weekend and she knows many people like that but has no idea of the reasons.
If you or anybody you know don’t wear a wedding ring, why? Especially if you/they own rings but don’t use them.
Just genuinely curious as I thought wearing them is a common practice.
Has anyone had issues sleeping once the weather warmed up a bit?
I’m tracking sleep data and my “restful” sleep hours have been getting shorter since early march.
Sure doesn’t help that I’ve already hit monthly overtime limits with how much I have had to push though since the beginning of the month…
Been here for 8 years. Always been planning for permanent residency. However after the last year in a job and area I dislike but being financially unable to move and unable to do jobs I’d really like to do I’m wondering if it’s time to move back to my home country.
I love Japan. It’s where I’ve been almost my entire adult life. But since I moved to where I am now and got my new job last year I’m miserable. Literally the only thing keeping me from moving back is the worry that I will want to return to Japan and then have to have my PR clock reset…
For anyone who has encountered similar thoughts, how did you work though them? What made it worth it for you to stay?
After over 2 months of living here and riding a bike, I feel like people here have no spatial awareness. I don’t think this is specifically relating to Japanese people, but they always seem to spread out on the sidewalk when I ride my bike so I can’t pass them, and if I ring my bell, they give me a dirty look when I pass them even though there was no other option. Not to mention when I try and turn a corner, there are always people blocking the way. I usually try to ride on the bike lanes, but after getting hit by a bus that pulled into the bike lane and hit me, I have some worries. Not to mention the cars regularly go into the bike lane, or stop in the bike lane so I have to go into the road to go around them. Despite bikes being so popular around here, it hardly seems bike friendly. Do I just have bad luck? I’m in the Osaka area.
Didn’t manage to plan anything for golden week and everything is so expensive now 🙁
I’ve seen people reading e-manga on the train and I’ve seen people reading paper books on the train, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone reading e-books. The big publishers all have e-book versions so I wonder who’s buying them and where they’re reading them. I personally prefer e-books when I’m on public transportation because it’s easier to mag ify and mark where I am when I have to take my attention off of it. Also the vertical phone screen is a great form factor for reading vertical Japanese script
What are the sites or platforms that Japanese usually uses (and if could, offer great deals) to book low cost carriers flight ticket?
I have a plan to go to Hokkaido in few months, but I only know Jalan and when I checked they offer full service airlines (JAL, ANA, etc.), while I am actually looking for the LCCs.
Have an office meeting next week. Everyone is required to participate except me and one Japanese staff(who works in different sector). I wonder if this is normal. Or kinda ignoring me.. Been working remotely,but other 3 staff who are also working remotely are required to participate on that meeting, but owner have specifically mentioned that everyone have to participate except me and other guy… 🤔. Is it red flag for me?
Are there any ways to commonly save on Shinkansen tickets?
There’s some places I’d like to travel & bum it out at hostel/capsule/other cheap stay but it always seems like the actual travel price is alot higher. Especially when including round trip fair
Any info on the kabukicho gate being blue? is that a temporary thing? and is it just for the opening of kabukicho tower or some other meaning?
I was walking down one of the shopping arcades in Sendai yesterday, some people were handing out cans of a new “On sale from April11th” Monster energy drink flavour.
It was watermelon, in theory. It tasted like watermelon and batteries in practice.
Goddamm! Someone **has** been getting my emails. I guess the key was cutting out the seven pages of threats to the UN.
What a lovely day
Anyone see the new Popcorners out in stores yet? There’s a kettle corn like flavor that I really need in my life.
semi rant: encouraging people to wear their backpacks in front actually creates more problems. the only people it’s good for are those with no spatial awareness that smack people over when turning/passing others. i’m on the short side, and i hate when someone taller reverses their pack and stands with their back to me, because then their upper body is leaning/pushing into my head and shoulder space making it even more difficult to keep my balance on packed trains!
Applied for mortgage pre-approval w/ the wife.
Was approved for less than half of what the calculation suggested despite meeting every one of their requirements.
Asked them “Why did this happen, and can we get more info?”
and basically got ” ¯_(ツ)_/¯ “
Went it to renew my license yesterday, and boy was it scary.
Old people struggling to walk, oldies struggling to sit down at the eye tester, people unable to read the sign about taking a ticket to wait in line, a guy having trouble with the eye test when wearing his glasses, and one lady being helped to walk by someone younger. I hope these people are all paper drivers and will never actually drive a car on the road.
Also seen a lot more helmets sInce Apr 1st. While driving I saw an old guy riding his bike with a helmet on. The helmet was on sideways.
They’re cutting all the branches off the trees in my local University. Can someone remind me why they do this in Japan again?
Well, so yesterday I was playing game on my PSVR2 and I was fully immersed in it and had so much fun shooting and punching my enemies until one of my punches hit a hard surface: my brand new 65″ LG OLED TV.
My heart sank to my stomach and I couldn’t believe the stupidity that I have just done. Thankfully it is just a very very small scratch and it’s not visible when the TV is on.
I’m trying to ignore it but I just can’t. Now I’m thinking of selling it on Mercari or something and buy the same model again.
Does anyone have any advice on how much I should sell it? It’s an LG G1 65″ model and current price on kakaku is 254,800. Is 200,000 too much to ask?
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Anybody know why some Japanese men and women don’t wear wedding rings at all?
Was talking about this with my wife during the weekend and she knows many people like that but has no idea of the reasons.
If you or anybody you know don’t wear a wedding ring, why? Especially if you/they own rings but don’t use them.
Just genuinely curious as I thought wearing them is a common practice.
Has anyone had issues sleeping once the weather warmed up a bit?
I’m tracking sleep data and my “restful” sleep hours have been getting shorter since early march.
Sure doesn’t help that I’ve already hit monthly overtime limits with how much I have had to push though since the beginning of the month…
Been here for 8 years. Always been planning for permanent residency. However after the last year in a job and area I dislike but being financially unable to move and unable to do jobs I’d really like to do I’m wondering if it’s time to move back to my home country.
I love Japan. It’s where I’ve been almost my entire adult life. But since I moved to where I am now and got my new job last year I’m miserable.
Literally the only thing keeping me from moving back is the worry that I will want to return to Japan and then have to have my PR clock reset…
For anyone who has encountered similar thoughts, how did you work though them? What made it worth it for you to stay?
After over 2 months of living here and riding a bike, I feel like people here have no spatial awareness. I don’t think this is specifically relating to Japanese people, but they always seem to spread out on the sidewalk when I ride my bike so I can’t pass them, and if I ring my bell, they give me a dirty look when I pass them even though there was no other option. Not to mention when I try and turn a corner, there are always people blocking the way.
I usually try to ride on the bike lanes, but after getting hit by a bus that pulled into the bike lane and hit me, I have some worries. Not to mention the cars regularly go into the bike lane, or stop in the bike lane so I have to go into the road to go around them. Despite bikes being so popular around here, it hardly seems bike friendly. Do I just have bad luck? I’m in the Osaka area.
Didn’t manage to plan anything for golden week and everything is so expensive now 🙁
I’ve seen people reading e-manga on the train and I’ve seen people reading paper books on the train, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone reading e-books. The big publishers all have e-book versions so I wonder who’s buying them and where they’re reading them. I personally prefer e-books when I’m on public transportation because it’s easier to mag ify and mark where I am when I have to take my attention off of it. Also the vertical phone screen is a great form factor for reading vertical Japanese script
What are the sites or platforms that Japanese usually uses (and if could, offer great deals) to book low cost carriers flight ticket?
I have a plan to go to Hokkaido in few months, but I only know Jalan and when I checked they offer full service airlines (JAL, ANA, etc.), while I am actually looking for the LCCs.
Have an office meeting next week. Everyone is required to participate except me and one Japanese staff(who works in different sector).
I wonder if this is normal. Or kinda ignoring me..
Been working remotely,but other 3 staff who are also working remotely are required to participate on that meeting, but owner have specifically mentioned that everyone have to participate except me and other guy… 🤔. Is it red flag for me?
Are there any ways to commonly save on Shinkansen tickets?
There’s some places I’d like to travel & bum it out at hostel/capsule/other cheap stay but it always seems like the actual travel price is alot higher. Especially when including round trip fair
Any info on the kabukicho gate being blue? is that a temporary thing? and is it just for the opening of kabukicho tower or some other meaning?
I was walking down one of the shopping arcades in Sendai yesterday, some people were handing out cans of a new “On sale from April11th” Monster energy drink flavour.
It was watermelon, in theory. It tasted like watermelon and batteries in practice.
Goddamm! Someone **has** been getting my emails. I guess the key was cutting out the seven pages of threats to the UN.
What a lovely day
Anyone see the new Popcorners out in stores yet? There’s a kettle corn like flavor that I really need in my life.
semi rant: encouraging people to wear their backpacks in front actually creates more problems. the only people it’s good for are those with no spatial awareness that smack people over when turning/passing others. i’m on the short side, and i hate when someone taller reverses their pack and stands with their back to me, because then their upper body is leaning/pushing into my head and shoulder space making it even more difficult to keep my balance on packed trains!
Applied for mortgage pre-approval w/ the wife.
Was approved for less than half of what the calculation suggested despite meeting every one of their requirements.
Asked them “Why did this happen, and can we get more info?”
and basically got ” ¯_(ツ)_/¯ “
Went it to renew my license yesterday, and boy was it scary.
Old people struggling to walk, oldies struggling to sit down at the eye tester, people unable to read the sign about taking a ticket to wait in line, a guy having trouble with the eye test when wearing his glasses, and one lady being helped to walk by someone younger. I hope these people are all paper drivers and will never actually drive a car on the road.
Also seen a lot more helmets sInce Apr 1st. While driving I saw an old guy riding his bike with a helmet on. The helmet was on sideways.
They’re cutting all the branches off the trees in my local University. Can someone remind me why they do this in Japan again?
Well, so yesterday I was playing game on my PSVR2 and I was fully immersed in it and had so much fun shooting and punching my enemies until one of my punches hit a hard surface: my brand new 65″ LG OLED TV.
My heart sank to my stomach and I couldn’t believe the stupidity that I have just done. Thankfully it is just a very very small scratch and it’s not visible when the TV is on.
I’m trying to ignore it but I just can’t. Now I’m thinking of selling it on Mercari or something and buy the same model again.
Does anyone have any advice on how much I should sell it? It’s an LG G1 65″ model and current price on kakaku is 254,800. Is 200,000 too much to ask?
Thanks !