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About those white envelopes I see patients pass cash to their doctors in j-dorama..
Is this still a thing? Only in some cases? Only in some kinds of hospitals?
Trying to help a newcomer friend who suddenly needed help with cultural aspects…
Apart from EPOS and Rakuten, what are some good credit cards that are easy to apply for?
I’ve gotten different answers from multiple companies and my school, so I guess I’ll ask you guys too
When you leave language school early to change to a work visa, all you need is the 内定 from the sponsoring company and a document from your school showing good (above 80%) attendance right?
If you have those immigration shouldn’t care if you actually graduated right?
For those with the self cleaning aircons, what do you pay to have them cleaned? I have one unit that isn’t self cleaning and it’s super easy to DIY but my self cleaning ones are crazy complicated and I don’t want to break them by attempting to take then apart
can i take a trip out of the country while my student visa extension is processing? my school said not to go but i was wondering if it’s a school rule or an immigration rule
Anyone with experience looking for IT security type (not engineering, more like risk assessment) gigs at foreign mulitnationals? Not showing much in that arena on CareerCross, LinkedIn, Indeedjp, etc… Kinda tired of DoD work and would like to live more centrally to Tokyo or similar.
Can anyone recommend OTC muscle relaxant meds?
Nearest clinic has prescrived me some before and it definitely helped with my tense shoulders/neck (lartnered with exercise) but since clinic’s closed and I lost the prescription, I’m not sure what it was.
Okay jlifers I proposed.
Im going to meet the parents (the second time now) anything I should know when telling them that I’ll be marrying their daughter
Did some Japanese service that collects phone numbers get hacked or something? Spam calls on Whatsapp are getting insane, but no one I know who lives outside Japan is experiencing it.
_Very_ stupid question.
Maybe a couple of years past the peak, but what led to Donpen goods being co-opted by “Jirai kei” (and adjacent) girls?
I can understand their attraction to “kuromi”, but a happy-go-lucky goofy penguin from a shop? It doesn’t really match.
Does Donki hold any cultural significance I’m unaware of? I get that it’s seen as a bit Yankī somehow, but why would it appeal to people who are trying to appear “dark”?
Okay, so I had a package returned to amazon due to not being deliverable. Do I need to do anything on my side? initiate a return?
Is there a master list of all the available English hotlines and inquiry forms for utilities and stuff?
Googling “[specific utility] English Support” doesn’t always return anything useful!
if one were to put in a request that burns up all remaining PTO (2 weeks), then just before it starts hand in a resignation notice with the last day same as the end of PTO, can the company retaliate? asking for a friend…
I’ve got to take the Shinkansen from Kobe to Tokyo tomorrow. Do I give up now and start driving tonight or what??
I need to buy a birthday cake for my friends birthday on Saturday. When is the last possible day I need to pre-order it?
Also, can anyone recommend a cake shop chain that does not necessarily sell these “sponge” cakes and has more dense options? Id love to have the name written on the cake as well if possible.
Anyone know where I can purchase an olive tree Bonsai tree by any chance? (preferably not too big)