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socketwrencher posted:Just wondering if anyone knows how strict things are these days in this regard. Also, if a 90 extension to a tourist visa without leaving Japan is possible (IIRC it used to be). There were reforms in September 2019 that made a lot of the "suspicion of working" moot. The big one was that Immigration/the Ministry of Justice will no longer process Certificates of Eligibility in Japan unless it's "extraordinary circumstances" (which ironically ended up happening a lot during the COVID border closures, but basically means that most of the time they won't flip a tourist visa to residence status unless it's going from tourist to spouse, which they still do afaik). The second big one is that they will no longer process CoEs in a country in which the holder doesn't have an existing status of residence already. This closed up the "visa run" loophole in which someone would get their CoE from their employer that they were working under the table for, dash to South Korea (the nearest country), spend the weekend and change there getting the visa entered into their passport, then fly back to Japan and be work-legal right away. So an American would have to go to Guam at the bare minimum instead of SK (unless they were already working in SK, and if they were, it would be trivial for the employer to mail the CoE to them in SK anyway). The combination of these basically killed visa runs for people working illegally. They were a lot more lax before June 2012 when they changed all the residence cards from "Alien Registration Document" (外国人登録説明書) but they weren't blind to abuses of the system that mounted more and more over the next 7 years. That having been said, what Zettace said: Zettace posted:If you are a citizen of Austria, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, or UK you can apply for a visa exemption extension of 90 additional days.
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Lyndon LaRouche posted:I'll be hitting up Hiroshima, Ehime, and Kochi this summer. About half our accomodationa are campsites, so it should be good times drinking cold beer and eating grilled meat amidst the early evening din of the cicadas. How was Kochi.
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mongolia posted:How to do I get rid of house dust Crack a window when you clean. Apparently if you are in the borders of Japan, it guarantees that and and all stray dust you sweep immediately funnels out through that cracked window. It works 100% of the time.
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Zettace posted:If you are a citizen of Austria, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, or UK you can apply for a visa exemption extension of 90 additional days. Navaash posted:There were reforms in September 2019 that made a lot of the "suspicion of working" moot. The big one was that Immigration/the Ministry of Justice will no longer process Certificates of Eligibility in Japan unless it's "extraordinary circumstances" (which ironically ended up happening a lot during the COVID border closures, but basically means that most of the time they won't flip a tourist visa to residence status unless it's going from tourist to spouse, which they still do afaik). Good to know and very helpful, thanks to you both. There would be no work involved, it would be part of a sabbatical of sorts.
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AHH F/UGH posted:Crack a window when you clean. Apparently if you are in the borders of Japan, it guarantees that and and all stray dust you sweep immediately funnels out through that cracked window. It works 100% of the time. Thanks..
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Second day in Tokyo with my mum and I think she's been mostly interested in comparing grocery prices to back home in Malaysia so far. I got myself some Kinoko/Takenoko no Yama and I think I prefer takenoko, the chocolate/biscuit balance in a single bite is better.
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Ibblebibble posted:I prefer takenoko, the chocolate/biscuit balance in a single bite is better. Correct. Your residence card is in the mail.
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I never got into the bamboo/mushroom feud, but Toppo is easily superior to Pocky.
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leather fedora posted:I never got into the bamboo/mushroom feud, but Toppo is easily superior to Pocky. the fatty ghana toppo > men's pocky (dark chocolate, seemingly discontinued), gokuboso pocky > all chocolate toppo > regular pocky > regular toppo
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That sucks. I miss the delicious, sexist Pocky.
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Gabriel Grub posted:That sucks. I miss the delicious, sexist Pocky. remember what they've taken from you
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Gabriel Grub posted:That sucks. I miss the delicious, sexist Pocky. Ive never had it. I like pretz and black coffee everyday morning before I use the sauna in my office.
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mongolia posted:Ive never had it. I like pretz and black coffee everyday morning before I use the sauna in my office. I don't know if you're being serious, but that sounds lovely anyway.
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I've yet to find a better rate than Narita and Haneda. The kiosks just outside int'l arrival has great rates. I think you can find them online. They've been like, 1-2 JPY off the official rate for USD, it's nuts. I bet Euro and GBP have similarly good rates. Maybe AUD as well.
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Mr. Fix It posted:note: the good rates come from local banks with kiosks in the airport. travelex has branches too and their rates are just as extortionate as they are anywhere. is this windows at the airport or ATMs? but yeah either way, unless you want a grip of 2000 yen bills to amaze people with or are my family and just by habit get cash at home, using the local banks at Narita/Haneda is probably your best bet.
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I saw the mascot of Nagano, Arukuma, and found him so endearing that I took a selfie with him. Later I went to a bar in Matsumoto and got to talking with some locals and somehow this came up and I showed them the funny photo. We were then talking about apples, and I said I hadn’t tried any of the local (huge) apples. The fellow I was talking with promptly left the bar and returned with a bowl of apple slices, and also gave me an apple. Folks are really proud of these apples!
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Femtosecond posted:I saw the mascot of Nagano, Arukuma, and found him so endearing that I took a selfie with him. Later I went to a bar in Matsumoto and got to talking with some locals and somehow this came up and I showed them the funny photo. We were then talking about apples, and I said I hadn’t tried any of the local (huge) apples. The fellow I was talking with promptly left the bar and returned with a bowl of apple slices, and also gave me an apple. I really like Arukuma he is very cute. If you keep talking about Arukuma maybe some people will give you free Arukuma merch.
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So there's this seafood festival in Tokyo happening on Thanksgiving and I'm irrationally excited about it. I've been living inland for too long.
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Is the Bank of Japan deliberately doing something to keep the yen under 150 to the dollar? It doesn't seem to be able to break past 149.xx. I know nothing of this stuff but I suspect something is being done deliberately to try to prevent it from 150. I'd guess the fear is if it goes through 150 it will just keep falling.
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Zapf Dingbat posted:So there's this seafood festival in Tokyo happening on Thanksgiving and I'm irrationally excited about it. I've been living inland for too long. Oh? This sounds pretty interesting, is there any other information on this?
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I have a Schwab international checking account and just use it where I can and use it like a regular debit. They used to reimburse ATM fees but I guess they stopped it
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I'm on the tail end of my trip. My friends who forgot their JR rail passes were able to get them express shipped and the arrived in the afternoon of the day we were leaving Tokyo. We were in Osaka like 2 days and the leader of their crew lost her JR pass and had to make do with IC card, which there's nothing wrong with unless you are a yen-pincher to begin with and are paying for something you kind of already paid for. She also got dog sick and was fine being typhoid Mary on all the buses and trains across Osaka. Unfortunately staying in close proximity with her for like 2 weeks means I also caught whatever she had. I masked up because I don't want to ruin someone else s day/week. They returned stateside last night but I was supposed to enjoy two extra days without them. Which has meant doing nothing I want to and just laying in bed and sleeping all I can. Vacation! Hopefully I'm better for the trip home.
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Zettace posted:Japanese media seems to portray 150 as the breaking point so probably. Yeah, this is my rough understanding as well. I hope they pull levers and stop printing money such that we go back more towards 110-100 to $1, but I’m more wishing than hopeful there.
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Blackchamber posted:poo poo bad luck jfc 
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Revitalized posted:Oh? This sounds pretty interesting, is there any other information on this? https://37sakana.jp/sjfesodaiba/
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peanut posted:jfc Thanks for your sympathy. There's still one thing I'm going to do, plague or not, and that's go see the Yokohama Gundam Factory to see the robit that walks... but not really since he's on a pole and not actually standing on his own two feet.
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cheese eats mouse posted:I have a Schwab international checking account and just use it where I can and use it like a regular debit. Did they? I might have the same account, and they reimbursed me my ATM fees from Vegas as recently as the end of September.
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Highlight of the Yokohama Gundam Factory. A lot of people with really nice glass on their cameras there. There's on guy on the dock tour (the tickets that get you up on the viewing platform) went up with a lot of gear. Tripods aren't allowed but he had a crane and so on. What they don't tell you is you are limited on how much time you can be up front (time for 5 pictures only) and they rotate groups between floors. So basically he went expecting to set up all his gear and squat a spot for the whole show and kids were bouncing in and around him and it was impossible to get a good video. He just went handheld photos only, kind of grumpy. Just a lil schadenfreude for my Gundam day.
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Day 2 of 5 staying in dotonbori and not sure if we regret it yet. It’s a madhouse.
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Blackchamber posted:Just a lil schadenfreude for my Gundam day. It’s always funny to see this sort of thing Kaddish posted:Day 2 of 5 staying in dotonbori and not sure if we regret it yet. It’s a madhouse. Going to be more fun if the Tigers are winning playoff games too
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Kaddish posted:Day 2 of 5 staying in dotonbori and not sure if we regret it yet. It’s a madhouse. lol owned. we had dinner with a friend heading out in Osaka and he took us around and again lol owned cheese eats mouse fucked around with this message at 15:07 on Oct 18, 2023 |
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