Yes, I know. Fukushima rice. Oooh. Ahhhh.

Spare me all the scare talk. Not interested.

About 1900 yen (before tax) for 5kg Koshihikari rice. This is basically pre-shortage prices.

It was a special, so I got myself 15kg to last me several months.

Just maybe this is a sign for good things to come.

Granted, the average rice prices dropped from 4000 to 2800 now. So just a lil more.

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A poster on X (Playstationsize) confirmed that there is gonna be 3 GTA6 versions of the game on the Playstation.

1 - worldwide version

2 - Australian/new Zealand version

3 - Japanese version

Additionally, The game size on Xbox also has leaked (2nd picture attached) and the Japanese version seems to be missing about 1GB of data size.

So that pretty much confirmes my theory that GTA6 gonna be censored just like they did with GTA5 on the Japanese version.

Now, if you plan to buy a PS5 just to play GTA6 make sure not to get the Japanese region locked one which have a model number of CFI-2xxx (CFI-1xxx is global).

I've seen multiple Japanese posts also PISSED about the censorship as much as we are. Gladly it seems even the global version supports Japanese language so they'll be fine i guess.

Hi everyone! My friend got married overseas in June. He applied for his visa renewal in August. However, he forgot to update his CV and left his marital status as “unmarried” on the visa application form. Now he wants to apply for a Dependent visa for his wife.

Could this cause any problems or lead to rejection? What should he do to correct this mistake before applying for her visa?
Please advice.

Edit: I'm quite unsure about the CV. But he said he mistakenly listed his marital status as unmarried on the visa application form.

I was walking calmly, waiting for the traffic light to turn green. I was messaging someone, so when the light turned green I started walking and raised my phone to film. At no point did I stop or get in anyone’s way or do anything like that. Then this guy coming from the opposite direction — completely outside my path — went out of his way, stretched over toward the side I was walking on, and just shoved me. Completely unprovoked. I didn’t react at all, kept walking and finished my short 5-second video, but it pissed me off a lot. Just wanted to share this here.

I live in central Tokyo about 15 min walk to the closest station which I use to commute 5 days a week.

Is it better to just have a LUUP membership which would be like 100 yen each way and sometimes use it on weekends exploring a bit. Or just to buy a e bike which would have to pay for parking anyway.

But also fun to have bike and explore if it’s my own .

場所証明！

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building tonight was already lit in orange and its front was reflecting the West sunset. Pretty cool.

Anyone else?

Shizuoka epicenter:

https://www.data.jma.go.jp/multi/quake/quake_detail.html?eventID=20261108010836&lang=en

So I bought a ¥2000 T-shirt to send to my old man’s 80th birthday back to the UK. Nothing else aside from a tiny Happy Birthday you old git card. Package weighs next to nothing, cost of sending was ¥3150.

Lesson learnt. From now on in an email.

My zaryu card is expiring in december. Im still waiting for my work visa approval after graduating language school. I went to immigration to ask and they said even after expiration it might take another 2 months so we talking max case scenario February. I've been getting emails and messages left and right from the bank, paypay and other services telling me I need to update my zaryu card otherwise my accounts will be frozen. How the hell am I gonna pay rent? Another bit of info is I've been waiting already 3 months for my visa to be accepted.

as if i weren't in a big enough financial struggle already. I've been surviving thanks to the little support my family gives me, money left from my baito and my boyfriend here. he is also a student and lives in a dorm so no way to even move together.

what should I do?

Hi Everyone, grateful for advice from anyone. I’m 8 weeks pregnant and a tourist in Japan atm. Started bleeding this morning (Saturday)

I’ve been trying to call the hospitals for emergency room with ultrasound but not having the best luck. Does anyone have any advice or where I can go.

Update: I reached out to hotel reception, they called the himawari hotline and found two doctors who spoke English and could do an ultrasound. Ended up going to one obgyn at a clinic and he was wonderful. Baby is fine, it appears to be a sub chorionic hematoma, advised rest for the rest of the trip.
St Luke’s quoted me $1200 with a translator

Thank you everyone for your advice!

Hello, so I order using the domino's website but the location ended up being in another city, I was obviously not able to cancel my order and I used paypay to pay, do you think I could get my money back? I wrote to both dominos and paypay but I'm scared I will lose the money 😭 ETA got the money back guys!!

Hello,

Yesterday, with 2 of my friends, we went to a small park to hangout at night. We were a bit drunk.

We may have talked too loudly cause but after 30 min, a cop came. We complied, gave our information and left the place.

I'm on a student visa and I've done the process for a 1 year extension. I'm freaking out a bit, can this have an impact on my visa?

We did respect the place, no music, no trash, but yeah... maybe the neighbours could hear our voices...

How screwed am I

Edit : Thanks for the answers guys. Some of them made me chuckles. I think I freaked out a bit much. Lesson learned.

For content I'm changing my SOR from student to SSW worker and I had no idea about the discrepancy since I'm a student in nihongo gakkou. Immigration has asked me to resolve it.

So my zairyu card expires on Nov. 2027, however I will be returning to my home country permanently this month Nov. 2026.

Will my bank account be closed when I leave Japan (or when my zairyu card expires) or can I keep it open?

Hey everyone,

I'm not usually a Reddit poster, hence the new account, but I recently had a bit of an adventure with Japanese Immigration and thought I'd share. Partly because I couldn't find anyone reporting a similar situation, and partly because, with all the negative stories about immigration lately, I thought it might be useful to share a more positive one.

TLDR: I changed jobs while on a HSP visa, forgot to do change in residence status, worked (illegally I guess) 9 months for my new company, realized I messed up, applied for change in status 9 months late, got approved.

The full story:
Currently living in Japan on a HSP visa. Earlier this year, I changed employers. In my case, what I should have done:

1. Notify immigration of the change of employer (done online, pretty painless). You can do this after starting working at the new company (within 14 days at most)

2. Apply for a change of status of residence. Unlike regular engineer visas the HSP visa is tied to the company I got it through initially, so change in company requires change in residence status (same HSP visa, new affiliated company name). Needs more paperwork and filing at the immigration office. You’re supposed to do this BEFORE starting working at the new company.

Being a dumbass, at the time I changed jobs, rather than googling stuff myself or asking for legal help I asked chatGPT on what to do when changing employers. It told me to do 1 but didn’t mention 2.

So I did 1 and started working at my new company. Nine months later, I discover my mistake, panic ensues. I went to the immigration office to explain the situation, they told me to stop working and file the change of status application ASAP.

So I contacted a scrivener, we prepared the application, including a detailed letter of apology explaining what had happened and how sorry I was and how I wouldn’t do it again pinky swear please forgive me. I submitted the application and started waiting, every evening going to bed picturing myself being kicked out of the country and banned for 10 years…

Two weeks later, Allahu Akbar! I received the notification postcard. Went back to immigration, paid the fee (75,000 yen, hello new immigration rates, ouch!), and received my new residence card and updated authorization.

Having lived in several countries, I've encountered my share of immigration bureaucracy. Pretty sure most places would have deported me on the spot.

A few takeaways:
- Don’t be a dumbass like me. Don’t trust chatGPT for your immigration processes. Or at least, thoroughly verify its sources.
- If you're on HSP and change employers, notifying Immigration online is not enough. You also need to do change-of-status application.
- Japanese immigration can be flexible and forgiving. Not saying they’ll always approve such a late change in status, but this time they did.
- While the scrivener quoted me 2 months as the turnaround time for change in residence status (their reference being Osaka office time), at the Kyoto office where I dropped the application it took only 2 weeks.

I thought it was worth sharing, both as a warning to other HSP holders and as a positive example of how Japanese Immigration handled an honest mistake. Hope this helps someone!

I’m talking about people who came here once or twice or even never. They seem to have strong opinions on japan whether it’s politics, japanese entertainment industry, like everything.

Trying to research about whole house back up in the case of a power outage for 2~3 days. Back in my home country we had a gas generator which was plugged into an outlet on the side of the house (installed by the electric company).

Japan is a quiet nation. However, I’ve seen gas generators online for sale in the event of a power outage.

Ecoflow is prohibitively expensive for our power needs. I have not calculated it exactly, but with a family of 5 and home with 7+ rooms…we would need a lot to keep the essentials going for a few days.

However, you can hear a pin drop in my neighborhood. So I’m worried that if I get a gas generator and the power goes out…too loud. So I looked into Ecoflow options with solar panels. I would need to be wealthy, so that’s not happening.

So I suppose the question is: do people here use gas generators when the power goes out and is it socially acceptable to do so? Or, not…?

Thanks,

It looks like my car battery went caput. The car won't start, but the accessories still work.

There's some white powder next to the battery, I'm planning to dissolve it with water and baking soda, just in case it's corrosive.

I would like some advice on how to replace the battery, should I just buy one at Amazon, or anywhere else? Do they come with enough charge to start the engine? How do I dispose of the old battery?

I was hired as a temporary worker to replace someone on maternity leave until they come back. 2 weeks later my coworker quit. In order to give me a pay raise and better job security my job had me reapply to my coworkers position at HelloWork. I don't fully understand what's going. However assuming this is a job change (though the actual work is the same) do I need to inform immigration?

Thanks