tiredofsametab

To the current constitution-violating republican administration, none of this matters and the cruelty is part of it. That said, let's play a game:

• what is the country of someone who grew up in the US, possibly speaking only English?
• what happens if the country is inaccessible for some reason (countries occasionally collapse or close borders)
• what happens if the borders of the country change and the person's hometown (or all their family) is now in country X instead of their country of birth Y

There are probably more weird edge cases that would need to be in any law as well.

Several countries have laws about naming to prevent stupid/abusive/non-traditional names (use cases vary by country)

Pity American firms in China

No, I don't think I will; buy that ticket, take that ride.

There have been several popes in my lifetime and the only one I really remember going was jp2, and that wasn't even a huge story in the scheme of things.

One can apply for PR via spousal route after 3 years of marriage at least one year of that being in Japan. She might be on a work status and not spouse/dependent of japanese national, for whatever reason.

On a work status, shed need to notify immigration withing 14 days of losing her job, but there are ways to get time for job hunting. (14 days from death of spouse on spouse visa, for that matter)

I have spouse status, but my PR application is in (spousal route, though I was almost at 10 years working in Japan to go that route anyway).

In my specific case, my status isn't tied to a job. In the average foreign worker's case, there's generally an allowed job-hunting period if employment ends on a work SoR. If unable to find a job then, yes, you would have to leave after your status expires.

They were sitting at the end of the seats at a station and supposedly they were expected to get up and move to another seat whenever someone else wanted to sit?

10 years in Japan now and I have zero clue what this might be referring to. Unless they were marked as priority seats, anyone can sit there. They might have been loud or disturbing without realizing it or something?

Nobody would be speaking on public transport and it would be deemed impolite.

It's not impolite to talk, it's impolite to be loud. It's fantastic, IMO, especially on the early, packed trains going into work in Tokyo and the like; the extra stress of noise is not needed and, many days, it served as a naptime.

Their streets in Japan are clean while there barely are any public garbage bins available.

This very much depends upon the area. They're also clean because people are cleaning up the shit in front of their houses basically every morning. I used to live between some bars and a hotel and those streets were not clean.

This was presumably just some government-job-specific pension. Japanese law requires paying into a pension scheme so it is doubtful that this is all he had. We also have iDECO and NISA which are like IRA/401k systems.

I live in Japan where we also have inflation, wage stagnation, increasing inequality, and a handful of elites with disproportionate influence.

That wouldn't surprise me. I have always been a night owl and maybe slightly non-24. I can get up early, but a single late night will destroy my schedule as my body reverts to that and takes days or weeks to recover.

Vote to play stupid games, win your stupid prizes ~ a small-scale farmer (originally form the US, but not farming there now)