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There are problems with some of the applications, and we’re struggling to contact the applicants in many cases.

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A Tokyo metropolitan government official in a department that has been handling applications for relief money from businesses that are complying with prefectural governments’ requests to shut down or shorten their business hours amid the pandemic. However, payments have been delayed due to a backlog and flood of administrative work.

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"However, payments have been delayed due to a backlog and flood of administrative work."

Yep, the pols and b'crats here can't deal with 21st Century emails. Faxes are the gold standard to get things done.

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A year of practice and warning and they still can’t organise a pi**up in a brewery!

Why were the necessary resources not in place to deal with the inevitable claims? Wholly unacceptable incompetence.

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Normally in Europe, money would be sent from one account to another. Within one country, it would be a matter of seconds. Here? It takes hours, and if it's a public holiday or a weekend, then the money isn't sent until the next day. And there's a fee on top of that. And when faxes are added to the mix and hankoing everything... It is doable, but not here. At least not for another 10 years or so.

Heck, it would be quicker to put the money in someone's hand and send them to hand it over in person!

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In the U.S. my daughter applied online and had the money wired into her account about 4-5 days later.

On the other hand there have been numerous documented cases of abuse related to relief funds in the U.S.

Regardless Japan seems to be reacting too slowly to help people in need. My 25+ years of experience living here would lead me to believe the process is un-nessesarily bureaucratic.

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