Japan Life

I thought the seemingly constant requests to update or verify your information was supposed to stop this!

Japan's real wages dropped 2.4% in September from a year earlier.

Hi all, I hope you are doing fine recently.

I need to go buy clothes and I was wondering if anyone knows of some second hand shops in Tokyo or nearby that have a bit taller sizes as well? I'm 183cm, male, so pretty standard in Europe but last time I checked (few years ago) that was way out the range and I gave up on it.

Buck-Tick vocalist Atsushi Sakurai died on Oct. 19 after he was rushed to the hospital following a brain hemorrhage

The rise in nuisance influencers comes as tourism numbers in Japan near their pre-pandemic levels

TOKYO -- Despite widespread approval of the Kishida government's move to request the breakup of the controversial Unification Church, Cabinet support

A Japanese court has said that a law requiring surgery to switch genders on a family registry is unconstitutional in a ruling on a case involving a transgender man in central Japan, according to his lawyers.

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan on Wednesday compiled a policy package to tackle hay fever caused by pollen from cedar and cypress trees, with plans to accelerate their reduction and replace them with varieties that produce less pollen.

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese households will see their budgets further squeezed by a new wave of price hikes scheduled for October on food and services,

TOKYO -- The Unification Church has published a protest against Japanese public broadcaster NHK, demanding that it stop airing and apologize for a program dealing with the religious group's recruitment methods.

FUKUSHIMA -- One of the three former Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) members who have been accused of indecently assaulting then colleague Rina Gonoi denied the allegations in a trial on Sept. 25 and insisted that Gonoi is "lying" about the damage.

KUMAMOTO -- Authorities are calling for caution as the first case of Japanese encephalitis in the country this year has been confirmed in Kumamoto Pre

FUKUOKA -- Police in Fukuoka Prefecture on Sept. 24 issued a prefecture-wide email warning regarding a group of suspicious men wearing a skimpy item of lingerie or nothing at all seen in the city of Koga the previous day.

OSAKA – An American man known for streaming provocative videos has been arrested on suspicion of breaking into a construction site in Osaka, police said Friday.

Ramsey Khalid Ismael, 23, known as "Johnny Somali" on YouTube, was arrested with another American, Jeremiah Dwane Branch, 24, who says he is a university student, according to police.

Ismael's videos include those in which he makes light of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and makes racist comments about Japanese people.

The two men allegedly made an unauthorized entry into a hotel construction site in Osaka's Chuo Ward on Aug. 30 with Branch filming a masked Ismael at the scene, according to the police.

They have told police they will not speak until they see lawyers, police said.

Did your wages go up? Mine didn't, neither my wife's.

6% is huge. The question is, who benefits?

Many people in Japan depend on the NERV service for earthquake alerts. Unfortunately, they'll no longer be able to receive them on X.

Amazon announced monthly prices will increase by ¥100, and yearly prices by ¥1,000.

What do you think? Personally, if it helps drivers get a better wage I am all for it.

I’m used to using conbini-pay with Amazon. You buy the item off the site, it emails you a barcode you take to 7-11 and they scan it and you pay.

I just tried the same with rakuten, except… for the life of me I can’t figure out where to find the stupid barcode! I got an email… but it just shows the item I want and how much it is, no barcode, no other instructions. I’ve logged into rakuten, checked the order, it says to wait for “payment confirmed” but that seems backwards, since I can’t pay until I get the barcode!

Any ideas?