Reddit -> Beehaw until I decided I didn’t like older versions of Lemmy (though it seems most things I didn’t like are better now) -> kbin.social (died) -> kbin.run (died) -> fedia.
Japan-based backend software dev and small-scale farmer.
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.
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 was going to go with a large, heavy wrench.
I went to the original instance after this, found that name, and then searched my blocklist but didn’t see them. We might not be federated with that instance or something.
? I don’t see any other replies but mine. That’s weird.
Lebensraum. There’s no love (lieben) in this.
The world needs to cut the US out entirely for the foreseeable future.
AFAIK, once you qualify for Social Security, you get it even if you stop being a citizen. I looked into it at some point as I plan to renounce once my parents pass (I already live overseas)
I only post on reddit in Japan-related subs because the community (and its knowledge, particularly around legal/financial stuff) refuses to move here. This, however, would be the end of even that. As a small business owner, it is super shitty to lose access to people with advice and knowledge of things around that (particularly taxes).
There are a number of ways to count continents, none of them super great for all usages. Some separate North and South America.
I’m related to one. They believe everything Fox News says and will twist themselves into logical pretzels to attempt to justify it when presented with evidence countering the narrative Fox says, even if it directly contradicts their own experience.
I would love it if it let me live/work in Shengen countries
It only calls the ZPhone of No Return
I know people who want to have kids but they worry about daycare and such (rough lottery-ish system in Tokyo) and jobs (which means moving to someplace like Tokyo) and the overtime expectations and such. So much stuff here nearly expects one person being home or not working during business hours to get stuff done yet, on the medium japanese, or even Tokyo, income, that’s not tenable. The yen keeps dropping compared to other currencies yet our fuel, agricultural inputs, and many raw materials are still imported.
I’ve been here a decade and have citizenship elsewhere so, if worse comes to worse, I have options. Most japanese do not. Yet salaries remain stagnant whilst everything goes up in prise or disappears from the market.
Yeah, not going to get better until the government addresses the actual problems and reasons people aren’t having kids.
I wonder if Korea has reputational protection laws like Japan where uploading a photo/video of doing something wrong can still get you sued if you don’t hide their identity. That would at least explain some aspect of a reaction potentially. (And for the record, fuck the Japanese reputational damage laws). Still wouldn’t matter based on where it was done, but might give it some background.
They feel only ultra-nationalist conservatives will defend them well against NK & China.
By all indications, cost of living and stagnant wages are the highest priority across the board. Overtourism is usually second or third. NK is hardly a consideration. China (and even Russia) are higher but mostly among ultranationalists due to territory disputes and Chinese investors buying up property.
Yeah this move was essentially to reset the counter to a full 4 years in the lower house. The ldp loves scandles, though, so she might step on a rake and we see some sort of pm election and another general
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.