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The US has 3x as many Japanese students studying here as American students studying there, and it's not like the numbers are very high as it is.
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Aren't the vast majority of foreign students in Japan from east and south-east Asia?
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Feb 17, 2022 22:04
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Feb 17, 2022 22:57
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I think we can all agree that the problem is not most foreign students; just the ones who continually tweet about how not being able to go on their year abroad is worse than the Holocaust.
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Feb 17, 2022 23:30
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The best travel ban tweets are those that are in dismay about missing out on world-class education at a Japanese university.
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Feb 18, 2022 02:02
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if they cant go to family mart to buy a prepackaged rice balls and strong zeroes how can they say theyve enjoyed their college years???
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Feb 18, 2022 08:34
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I think the biggest winners of the pandemic are Japan youtubers. I've seen like 3 youtubers get free nights in ridiculously nice hotels recently. Like hotels my tech salary couldn't afford without significant savings and one would be like a year's savings.
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Feb 21, 2022 01:08
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Even the annoying guy??
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captkirk posted:I think the biggest winners of the pandemic are Japan youtubers. I've seen like 3 youtubers get free nights in ridiculously nice hotels recently. Like hotels my tech salary couldn't afford without significant savings and one would be like a year's savings. Not to pry into your compensation but what hotel costs a year's pay?
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Midjack posted:Not to pry into your compensation but what hotel costs a year's pay? I said a year's savings not a year's pay, but Chris Broad got comped a night in a $12k a night room. Technically a thing I could afford, but that's basically the cost of putting solar panels on my house last year.
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captkirk posted:I said a year's savings not a year's pay, but Chris Broad got comped a night in a $12k a night room. Technically a thing I could afford, but that's basically the cost of putting solar panels on my house last year. Ah okay, sorry for misunderstanding. That makes sense; the priciest hotel room I've personally seen the inside of (didn't stay) was $20k/night US and there are some that go up to $100k but I didn't think Japan had any properties that hit that level.
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Feb 21, 2022 02:23
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That 12k room was fresh. That view was amazing. If I made like 100K a year I'd probably do it once.
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Feb 21, 2022 02:42
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCRlejdOadU I mean, the room would be empty 90% of the time so it doesn't cost them anything to let a popular youtuber stay there a night. Just free advertising.
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Feb 21, 2022 02:44
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Rick posted:That 12k room was fresh. That view was amazing. If I made like 100K a year I'd probably do it once. Almost 10% of your yearly salary (before taxes etc) for a single night? Eh... Absolutely dope room and view though
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marumaru posted:Almost 10% of your yearly salary (before taxes etc) for a single night? Eh... Lol, eh yeah maybe if I made like, 200k.
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Mister Chief posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCRlejdOadU Let me tell you, 100 bowls of wanko soba is no joke. It's a lot of food.
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IDK I think it would have to be a pretty special occasion and probably with a group of people to merit that much money being dumped out in a night. EDIT: Though at this rate, tourists being allowed back in in 2030 might be a pretty special occasion. captkirk fucked around with this message at 04:22 on Feb 21, 2022 |
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Andaz is pretty nice, but this one is still on my list. https://www.barhotel.com/ Also Fujiya at Ginzan Onsen. https://selected-ryokan.com/ryokan/fujiya-inn_ginzan_yamagata_tohoku.html
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zmcnulty posted:Also Fujiya at Ginzan Onsen. Man, this place is booked the gently caress up.
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Martytoof posted:Even the annoying guy?? especially the annoying guy
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Feb 21, 2022 09:44
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I have a name, you know.
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Cursory Googling suggests that Japan's p cool with masking up during non-pandemic times on account of allergies and such. Is that the case now?
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you'd figure hanami season would make for some weapons-grade sneezing, what with all the sakura trees in bloom
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Sakura trees pollinate by insects and animals, not wind.
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the trees that get you in Japan are loving cedars. burn them all to the ground, imho. i really need to do some sort of allergy theapy so february and march don't suck rear end every year  e: https://youtu.be/vY4PsmpxOj4
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After WW2 their forests were devastated so they just planted a gently caress ton of cedars since they're good for construction. But a couple decades later foreign lumber import was more cost effective so they have a ton of those cedars still around and spreading massive amounts of pollen across Japan because no one is cutting them down anymore.
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olives black posted:Cursory Googling suggests that Japan's p cool with masking up during non-pandemic times on account of allergies and such. Is that the case now? Japan and other countries have been wearing masks at various times of the year (and for some people, all year round) for ages now. You don't need a reason to wear a mask if you want to. Nobody will bat an eye.
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I’ve read in most parts of Asia it started after SARS but for Japan it goes back to the post war boom to avoid air pollution.
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When I used to teach college classes girls would wear them if they didn't want to do makeup that day, or if they had bad acne or a particularly egregious pimple/blemish on their face, in addition to the usual allergy, cold and flu symptoms. Guys would wear them for the same reasons 
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i always liked mask wearing and back home i was one of the first people to wear one because i was already used to it and i suspected it would protect me. i still don't get why people in the west hate them so much
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Shibawanko posted:i always liked mask wearing and back home i was one of the first people to wear one because i was already used to it and i suspected it would protect me. i still don't get why people in the west hate them so much Because we were told to wear them, and doing as you’re told isn’t cool.
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Presumably these are the same people who would've screamed when wearing a seatbelt became mandatory.
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The logic there is that seatbelts obviously protect you from flying out of your car when you crash it, but right wing freaks don’t believe in Lucretius or germ theory because they can’t physically see it and therefore they are impervious, ergo they cannot and will never contract and/or spread covid, therefore FACE DIAPERS Much like covid denialism though, not wearing seatbelts is also a bit of a self correcting Darwinian problem.
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Not quite, they usually manage to reproduce and give their kids bad opinions before they die.
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Masks are Cool and Good
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AHH F/UGH posted:The logic there is that seatbelts obviously protect you from flying out of your car when you crash it, but right wing freaks don’t believe in Lucretius or germ theory because they can’t physically see it and therefore they are impervious, ergo they cannot and will never contract and/or spread covid, therefore FACE DIAPERS I'm guessing you've missed the resurgence in seatbelt denialism? Because boy did it come back with covid (though not nearly to the same extent as masks)
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Now you can buy a bottle opener that doubles as a seat belt alarm stopper: https://www.amazon.com/Bottle-Opener-Tikit-Attachable-Keychain/dp/B07FNZR5XM/
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WarpedNaba posted:Presumably these are the same people who would've screamed when wearing a seatbelt became mandatory. A lot of them did and a number of the baby boom generation still whine about it.
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My republican dad refused to wear a seatbelt his entire life because it was communism.
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