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Oh, I should also mention this is why I have not taken any inheritance yet, as the tax man here would take 40% of it. I will wait until I return home as there inheritance tax is zero.

Last year I had to pay over 20m in taxes on undeclared income, both here and overseas. The overseas income was dividends and bank interest income. I was paying tax on that income overseas, but because Japan

has incredibly high tax rates, I still needed to pay the difference to the tax man here. I was required to provide 5 years of overseas bank statements btw which is why the amount was so high.

How did this all begin? - the tax man noted they could see what looked like dividend income coming into my overseas bank account, and the reason why they knew about that account, is I transferred money from my Japan account to it. Once they have that, they can view transactions to/from that overseas account. Beware….

Huh? - the leg was the easiest target? - 3 guys surrounding 1 but between the 3 of them only the leg was vulnerable?

What about after they stabbed him in the leg, and he was now maim - they simply forget to stab him in the chest? ]]Yeah, ok...

@Nihon Tora

I think you miss the point - although you could kill someone by severing an artery in their leg, if you were attempting to kill them, you would stab them in the chest/head/neck/back...not the leg. Clearly, they were not attempting to kill him.

Attempted murder for stabbing someone in the leg?...ok.

Jimmy Savile assaulted children, who were no position to stop it, complain about it, and probably not even understand fully what was happening. This is a grown women - it's a fair question to ask why she did not make this accusation at the time to authorities. Any person who waits 13 years to claim assault should fully expect to be asked that question and they should understand, that if 13 years later, they then raise it, it will be met with skepticism by some. That doesn't mean it didn't happen, but they should not be so naive as to expect people to just believe them.

@john

literally your entire post is factually incorrect.

His parents should go to jail as well.

....workers have been choosing European countries, the United States, Dubai, South Korea, Taiwan and elsewhere because they can get higher pay.

true, and with the yen turning into a 3rd world currency, it will only get worse.

For every Hamas member that is killed, 20 civilians are killed and almost half of them are children. How can anybody justify that?

It's going to pour done in Paris, so expect it to be a slugfest. If it was a hard and dry track, then NZ would win comfortably I think, but with the rain, the Boks will fancy themselves.

Could be right, but forecast is for rain, which I think the boks will be happy about.

Said no one in business ever.

You looked at the DXY chart lately - do you even know what that is?

Bitcoin… no thanks. It’s just worthless data in the long run.

Yeah, thats why Blackrock, the worlds largest (10 trillion dollars) asset manager, just 2 months filed for a btc ETF. They know whats coming.

Gold… if I want to preserve, it is gold that I would look at.

Um, you might want to look at this chart.

https://charts.woobull.com/bitcoin-vs-gold/

Not for long, the decline of the US dollar is closer than you think. Buy bitcoin if you want to preserve your money.

I just hope National come down hard on gangs and youth crime. I also hope they inject hundreds of millions more into health care and simplify the process for getting houses built.

Depends on how many yellow/red cards get dished out.

@dagon

True - actually considering what is happening in the world right now (Ukraine/Israel), and what might happen (China/Taiwan), NZ doesn't look to unattractive about now.

The infrastructure is overloaded. Road traffic is a nitemare. River/ocean pollution is unbelievable. Its not NZ as we knew it.

It is not crowed in the slightest and traffic is nothing compared to Tokyo . I was there just 2 months ago.

The problem with NZ, is it is the size if the UK, but has less than 10% of the population, so it is very expensive to maintain infrastructure across the country, with so few tax payers to fund it all. If everybody lived in only the major cities, it would not be an issue, but because kiwis like to live in the 'bush', services for even remote areas need to be maintained, which is costly.

Could have been worse, like Shut-Up.

Turn that frown, upside down!

Look at this debacle of a republican party - they have completely been hijacked by the far right, who are not in any way interested in compromise or actual governing for the good of the people. They simply want more power, and screw the consequences. When you have members of the same party, calling each other "a b**th" as MTG and Lauren Boebert did (which was later broadcast btw), and Matt Gatz and Kevin McCarthy getting in each others faces and swearing at each other, you know something is seriously wrong.

Japan is doomed - Kishida basically begging for companies to relocate, and invest in Japan, while the yen turns into monopoly money and peoples savings get decimated. I am so glad I sent all my yen overseas long back. Imagine having to pay off a foreign mortgage or supporting family members back home with the yen now turning into a 3rd world currency. At least in other countries, banks are now willing to pay 5 or 6 percent interest for savings. In Japan, still only between 1 or 2 percent. Like I said, the place is doomed.

Just watched this on the 7pm news.

They interviewed 3 Japanese people in Shibuya - of the 3, one said, regarding the name, they don't care about it at all, and another said, regarding the whole sex abuse scandal and name change discussion, as long as they can continue to support their favorite Johnnys idol, they don't care.

After living here for 20 years, these types of responses do not surprise me anymore.

IMO, most Japanese people cannot feel sympathy for others suffering, unless they are impacted in some way - just total apathy.

Lining up, holding hands in front of some trees won’t accomplish anything. You need to make it uncomfortable for Keiko and the developers. Protest outside their offices, follow them around and your displeasure known. Make some noise!

LOL - you haven't even seen it.

What a waste of time.

which started on Aug. 24, threatens citizens' right to live safely

How to you measure the safety of water? - you sample it, then measure for contaminants. This is exactly what has been done (and not only by Japan), and is being done, every single day, which clearly shows the water is fine. So unless you want to argue the measuring equipment is faulty, or there is a more accurate way to measure, then people who believe the water is unsafe should be quiet.

Yes and no. This is offset by the fact that most Japanese people want to live in Japan.

If you are in the scientific field, I think you'll find most want to be where the best access to resources and research is located, AND where you credit for your work.

The rugby women's WC last year had consistently packed stadiums, with the semis/final totally full houses.

That being said, the standard of women's rugby especially amongst the top teams, I would say is considerably higher than football. The NZ football teams (both men/women) are pretty poor and nobody wants to watch low skilled athletes in any sport, especially in a country where that sport is not popular anyway.

i work for a big financial firm - like all other similar firms, all the IT infrastructure that serves the various sub-businesses are being moved out of HK to Singapore/Japan. Some cannot, as they need direct connections to the HK exchanges, but everything else is being moved out of HK. Everybody wants to reduce their business exposure to HK to near zero.