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Another seldom-reported ripoff is overcharging for personal computer maintenance and repairs. A sleazy techie might charge ¥5,000 yen for each 30 minutes of consultation, which can easily run into big bucks. Some outfits are said to charge higher fees than lawyers. 

"Elderly people aren't familiar with PCs and when attempting to update to a new OS crash their systems," a man in the trade tells Spa. "Major appliance stores might charge them ¥50,000 to reconfigure their PC. We are more conscientious and only charge them ¥30,000."

Sorry, I can't understand who is the ripoff merchant is... Is it the sleazy techie, the major appliance store or the "man in the trade"?

The tax inclusive price is deceiving. Don’t trust it!

If you buy one (10% tax) item with a tax included price of 217.8 yen (198 without tax), you will pay 217 yen- they always round down the price.

If you buy two items of 198 yen, they will charge you 235 yen (217.8x2=235.6- rounded down) so you lose 1 yen.

“Sorry, how can the price be an odd number (235 yen) for buying two same priced items?”

If you buy 100, it will cost 21,780 yen which is 80 yen more than buying them individually.

If you multiply that by number of people and shopping trips per day, the government may be making 100s of millions of yen per day by this deceit.

Always buy things individually at checkout. Save yourself a fortune.

You’re welcome.

Kids finish school at 11:30 today (and many other days during the term). "Rooms" are full so how are working parents suppose to manage this? Just an idea but maybe this needs sorting out first?

REDWhiteBlue

And none of them had a beer in Qatar but when they got back to Japan they had a beer. They were following the local rules. And so should you.

I know they didn’t wear masks but how do you know that they didn’t have a beer? It was freely available in many places.

I just feel sorry for the tens of thousands of trees felled to make the billion-odd masks that people in Japan consume each week.

Crikey. He wasn’t wearing a mask outside the courthouse? Well at least he’s following govt. recommendations now.

Yoyogi59

Why is the baby on the cover picture blond, does not look like a Japanese child.

What does a Japanese child look like?

Looks like people are not reporting any more. And why should they- who wants to quarantine for 10 days plus 7 day for close contacts?

The test is just a nonsense really- not required by the airline and who is to say that people won’t catch the virus in the 72 hours following the test? In any case the 72 hours is extended to 96 hours if the flights are rearranged!

I don’t see many women in Japan protesting about wanting change.

Covid is not going anywhere anytime soon. If zero cases is what people want then that isn’t gonna happen. It’s probably a good idea to let the vaccine do it’s job before it wears off. People don’t keep their kids locked up and masked after they had their polio, measles etc vaccines.

People are more afraid of the 10-day quarantine than the virus.

At Narita airport, many athletes from overseas formed queues at check-in counters. Some could be heard saying "arigato," which is thank you in Japanese

Mission accomplished

Go to home!