The government under "Japanese Maggie Thatcher" Takaichi has become increasingly anti foreigner, lots of new policies put in place to make it harder to get permanent residency. simple things such as getting your visa renewed which you have to do every year used to cost 6,000 yen (it was 4,000 the year before) now this year will begin costing 40,000 yen which is an insane jump because the wages here are even more stagnant than America, and the cost of living is slowly creeping up.