A few announcements from the mod team:
**Illegal Activity:**
We do not suggest, condone, or discuss activities which violate Japanese law here. ***Period***
Basically if the topic at hand involves breaking the law, the *only* acceptable response is “that’s illegal, don’t do that”. Feel free to cite sources and/or explain why.
For a more in-depth breakdown on this, please see [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/movingtojapan/comments/133qqf7/discussing_illegal_activity/)
**Digital Nomads:**
While we’re on the topic of illegal activity…
We’re aware that discussion of Digital Nomading in Japan is on the upswing in certain other subreddits, so a semi-friendly reminder:
There are *very* limited ways to *legally* do the digital nomad thing in Japan. Coming on a tourist visa ***is not one of them***.
Working on a tourist visa in Japan is illegal. Japanese law is very clear on this matter. It does not matter if you’re working for a foreign company, or if the money doesn’t enter Japan, or any of the other justifications that are frequently used. This is a settled matter as far as moderation in r/movingtojapan is concerned.
All that said: We’re aware that the government is *considering* [making changes that would allow digital nomads](https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2023/04/47d82b06649b-japan-aims-to-draw-100-tril-yen-foreign-investment-digital-nomads.html). But right now there is nothing official beyond talking about it.
**ChatGPT:**
We’ve had a recent upswing in comments that were very obviously generated by ChapGPT or one of the other AI/LLM tools. We probably should have seen it coming, but now it’s here. So here is the mod team’s official stance on ChatGPT content:
ChatGPT is a language model, not a subject matter expert. By its very nature it doesn’t actually know anything about the subjects it “talks” about. *Does not know*, so it should not post. Any content that appears to be generated by ChatGPT will be considered a violation of Rule 6: “Don’t know? Don’t Post!” and will be removed accordingly.
It doesn’t matter if you checked the response before copy/pasting it. Use your own words, and your own knowledge.