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In my own experience, having bachelor's degree or master's degree is enough to secure decent paycheck at most 'white' corporations here , PHD or professor is another 5-6 years after bachelor's degree(there's a lot of process to go through getting those scholarships, competing with others), you'll have to really love school, committed or wanting to be the expert of the field you're interested in doing research in.

Needing to make money and not a die hard fan of research, I just want to quickly pay off my mortgage, retire early to enjoy doing what I want, see the kids grow up and have kids of their own. People have more choices and options of their own of what path they want to take in life.

Yangshuo or Zhangjiajie in China, Waikiki or Diamond head in Hawaii, Bali, Mount Everest...

Hokkaido or any Onsen villages. Winter is great for the seafood and onsen time.

International : Gaza War between Israel and Hamas

Domestic : Fukushima water disposal

Christmas will just be the same for us like every other year, we'll have some nice dinner on Christmas Eve, got some presents for my kids...It's time to appreciate family and having them, and with money we earned the whole year trying to get some new clothes and gifts for the children and enjoy some nice food together with the family and maybe doing karaoke or watch some movies together...

drop off deliveries

options to set time when you want to have the delivery when purchasing item online

for me mostly it's overthinking and the brain processing what happened earlier or flashback of the past...if at work I would sneak out early for lunch and just sleep (inemuri) the whole lunch break, inside the car sometimes..after work try hiting the gym or go to onsen or sento to get the body relaxed and easily sleep the night after and just fully recover from it...would be back to normal after 8 hours sleep next day

Some of K-Pop band members like Blackpink speaks really good English, while J-Pop counterparts I rarely seen any of them seem speak good English.

bowing at people, bowing when talking on the phone, looking for the bidet button thinking it's going to be washlet, separating the plastic label, plastic cap and pet bottles from bottles, and separating all garbage based on their categories

Senbei, Maccha flavored ice cream, Manju, konbini Nikuman, Famichiki (konbini fried chickens), Potato fries with nori, fruits Kanten, konbini oden, fruits flavored yoghurts etc...

They can try to imitate Taiwan, Hongkong, Korea, US, Canada etc in bringing in live-in home helper for elderly from Phillipines, Indonesia, etc. These ladies cook, clean and can do all household chores. It's just Japanese people in general are still not open about letting people in their houses just like how they're not that very welcome to foreigners/outsiders in their country.

Y'all buy travel and health insurance?

Can't even afford the pricey airplane ticket let alone any travel and health insurance.

Trying to save up for my travels with my salary in Japan which is pittance. (not much left after the basic needs so it's gonna take forever to save up)

Nothing wrong if mutually single and looking for partners.

But for affairs and love hotel meetups between those already with husband/wife and kids, I kinda might question their vow when they first got married.

Bravo India. Great achievement.

None so far.

For me was the opposite, all the travel places live up to the hype. Maybe just when it's too crowded and the long wait in line, it was quite tiresome and stressful (places like Universal Studios, Disneyland, etc could be so packed and the line for attractions are long on popular rides).

Some places could be very underrated too. Some beaches in Okinawa was mind blowing beautiful for me but wasn't that really heard of.

I'm not worrying about anything as I won't be alive that time. Just enjoying the present. Life is too short to worry about things.

Free or cheaper health care for lower income households. Subsidy from the higher income or tax the corporates to give back to the poorer. Health as in life should always be the priority in humanity.

drinks : cold oolongcha, aquarius, pocari sweat, iced coffee or matcha latte from konbini, home made fruit smoothies, canned chu hai, umeshu, etc

foods: sushi, gari gari kun, watermelon, kakigori with lots of mixed fruits, etc

Still go to stores to buy : fresh foods, daily groceries, drinks, snacks, alcohol medicine, toiletries, etc anything I can get in supermarkets, drugstores, konbinis...clothes, shoes available at nearby shopping malls....

Shop online : certain brand of wears, shoes, clothes, video games softwares, etc things not available at nearby malls, supermarkets, drugstores, konbinis...

Instead of paying for smiling lessons, they should just travel to poorer nations like SE Asians countries or India and see that people there no matter what conditions they're living in can purely and beautifully smiles from their heart even the children. Not some fake *ss forced first world smiles from training and lessons. It's actually quite yabai if even smiles required learning. Learn from those who do it from their heart and sincerity.

Faith in humanity restored.

"Kohechi connects Kumano with Koyasan. This mountaintop route is long and challenging, and consequently should not be undertaken without careful preparation. Inns are rarely found without zigzagging up and down the mountainsides into valley towns, greatly increasing the distance traveled. Kohechi was used mainly by Buddhist monks from the temple complex of Mount Koya." ...quoted from japan-guide.com

She's prolly staying in Koya san (Wakayama) heading to Kumano Hongu Taisha...Kumano Kodo is between Wakayama, Nara and Mie...

Kei has its pluses and minuses, personal opinion:

Plus : Cheaper tax, fuel efficient, cheaper etc toll price, good manuverablity in smaller streets...special parking space for kei cars only in some parking areas...Good for short distance trips, dropping the kids to school or classes, nearby groceries shopping...

Minus: 660 cc is not enough power when running in highways especially when bringing the whole family, small trunk space couldn't fit much stuffs...would prefer suv or wagon mpv for longer travel and rides....

relatively good...personal opinion and taste:

convenience store: 7 eleven, lawson and family mart 's latte or kilimanjoro is quite good...

cafe: tully's and costa is nice...komeda, starbucks is okay...

vending machines : the canned or bottled one tastes weird, but freshly brewed is decent...

Top notch service. Fast, relaible, 100% delivered and received with no problems at all.

Too many to mention..

Kaitenzushi, yakiniku and family diner like Joyful, etc cant remember how much family time we spent with the kids here.

The cars, big fan of their kei cars and family wagonsha.

The electronics, very durable and good quality, love kotatsu in the winter

Karaoke, video games (big switch fan, fun times with the kids)

many drop in sport circles for just a few hunded yen

anime, manga

Uniqlo and Shimamura

100 yen shops like Daiso, Seria

safe , clean, good service

ETC

Okinawa, stunning beaches, great culture and nature

paypay and the likes

-merkari, bought tons of used stuff still in good quality for fraction of new price

-don xiqote

-nitori

-vending machines

good quality fresh fruits, somehow the fruits just taste better than back home

-SA/PA, service area parking area...gotta love the rest areas where I can shop, eat...

-the list goes on and on....

Goes from pro-Ghosn to anti-Ghosn within an hour.

that i was referring the money Nissan made in China counts as profit and revenue, as stated otherwise by other post.

was anti ghosn all the way, he was to blame from stealing too much from Nissan buying luxury houses, party, investment loss, lavish lifestyle etc, thats so corrupt and just blatant abuse of power, now Japan Inc had to make up for the mess he made. If there is to blame, its Ghosn for not using fair share of his earning but instead spend for his greed by taking what was not his right at the first place.

Nissan which was Japan's second biggest carmaker is an "underdog"?.. Oh, pleeeease.

some guy that stole from nissan and bought luxury houses, party and paid for his investment loss predicted they will be bankrupt by 2020, clearly not many is favoring them making comeback at the moment.

Woo, that's nice. You ought to thank us tax payers for propping up your shares via a ¥130 bil state loan guarantee.

thats my money too, stimulus package work if only they have the will to work and make a comeback.

let byghosn be byghosns guys, dude stole too much from Nissan for his lavish lifestyle and Japan inc had to inject stimulus to make up for that damage.

This is outrageous, we are trashing tax payers money in a private company that is heading to certain death.

Suga is native Yokohama hence the support to save the local brand with their technology that once produced some legends in automotive industry, ie. Skyline, GTR, etc

Every foreign company in China yields no profit back to their home country because all of the revenues and profits are immediately re-invested into China. The CCP has strict capital control, so Nissan won't ever get its profits out of China.

its a global market now, they have had big presence in China, US, India market since Ghosn era that counted as profit, global market is now what nissan is aiming and the french renault own like 40 percent of nissan anyways.

its too early to call their death if they still have plenty weapons under their belt.

and this turnaround made while only releasing Kicks this year.

for buy low sell high stock investor like me nissan is a better pick for further future gain with their current discounted stock price.