A long, honest breakdown from a foreigner who’s lived in Japan for 5+ years. Let me start with a confession:I never moved to Japan thinking I’d one day care about the Japanese tax system. But after living here for more than 5 years, watching policy changes closely, and experiencing unexpected tax bills (yes, the 住民税 […]
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Japan Looks Free, But It Runs on Unspoken Rules When you first visit Japan, it feels calm, clean, and amazingly organized—almost like the whole country is running on invisible software. But live here long enough (I’ve been here over 6 years now), and you start noticing something deeper: Japan works because everyone follows rules—written or
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Dating in Japan Isn’t “Easy Mode” — It’s Just Different The biggest myth I see online is this idea that dating in Japan is easy for foreigners.It isn’t. It’s different, interesting, confusing, slow, fast, polite, indirect, and sometimes emotionally exhausting — depending on who you meet, how well you understand Japanese culture, and what your
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Yes, Foreigners Can Get Promoted in Japan — Just Not How You Think Let me start with the truth:Getting promoted in Japan as a foreigner is absolutely possible… but the rules are invisible, the expectations are unspoken, and the timeline is almost never what you expect from Western workplaces. When I first came to Japan,
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Working in Japan is one of those things people romanticize before arriving.You picture clean offices, polite coworkers, futuristic technology, and a super-efficient system where trains, schedules, and people run like clockwork. And then you join your first Japanese company…and quickly realize:👉 Japan is efficient everywhere except inside the office. I’ve lived in Japan for more
🇯🇵 Japan Needs Foreign Workers More Than Ever If you’ve been in Japan long enough, you can feel it everywhere — convenience stores cutting hours, restaurants desperate for staff, and companies openly saying they can’t survive without foreign workers. After living in Japan for more than six years, I’ve watched something interesting happen:Japan went from
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