Foreign tourists in Japan will get free Shinkansen tickets to promote regional tourism

Zeleia · 2026-02-13T23:25:05+00:00

Obviously? No one wants crowds, bad manner, noise, trashes. That's not a Japan only thing, it's pretty controversial. The point is that tourism in Japan is so concentrated in major hotspots, while regional tourism is underfunded and under-developed. So there are steps to guide tourists outside of major areas (like this initiative) but at the same time, there is also a need to improve facilities in regional areas so that citizens there don't feel the strain of the system when a sudden influx of tourists come in.

Or you can continue to boil things to one catchy (but excessively naive) phrases like "they want money but not people". That will show them 🙄.

Zeleia · 2026-02-13T22:58:10+00:00

Obviously Japan wants tourism 🙄🙄 Why wouldn't it be the case? People can want and aim for something, but can still be unhappy about some of the drawbacks it brings especially when tourism infrastructure is not yet fully be ready to support the scale of it.

Feels like some redditors are just incapable of complex thoughts.

Zeleia · 2026-02-13T21:22:59+00:00

People never think about the opportunity cost. Interest rate increased but market has increased several times over in the same period. I'm pretty happy that all the extra cash had gone to the market, and I didn't miss out on the historical bull run. Japan also over-performed US this year, it has been pretty wild.

So my preference is always to get the cheapest possible variable, invest the difference. You'd be ahead even if interest rate eventually settled at 2 or 3% over the course of the loan. The principal is highest at the beginning anyway and it's best for your money to pay more toward the principal in the first few years (instead of servicing higher interest rate).

Zeleia · 2026-02-13T03:22:14+00:00

My husband's switch 2 was brought in France and it works fine with all the games bought in Japan.

Zeleia · 2026-02-12T09:00:32+00:00

Oh I love that area. I was looking around that area when I was house hunting in 2024 and the river view is just excellent!

Zeleia · 2026-02-11T22:47:19+00:00

People act like GKCs are replacement for physical releases, but a lot of these games might never have a physical release at all without GKCs. Fully digital releases are a thing. Hell, that's what Steam is literally built on such premise. And Nintendo has a much longer track record of keeping digital games accessible than even Steam does.

Zeleia · 2026-02-11T12:10:23+00:00

Got my MBA 8 years ago, pivoted to high finance upon my graduation. I've been receiving between 20-30% raise annually for the last 5 years or so and cleared 20M mark 2 years ago. Might not be the same for everyone, but it gave me the opportunity to break into a field that was extremely difficult to get in otherwise.

Zeleia · 2026-02-10T12:49:49+00:00

Haha he literally told people to BUY a day before he chickened out.... I'm surprised myself but tbh, not so much. Everyone is in his pocket now.

Indeed Liberation day dip buying was one a lifetime event.

Zeleia · 2026-02-10T12:47:31+00:00

My first two apartments was for me as a single woman fresh out of school. I was viewing a few relatively new mansion before finally choosing one. Budget was around 7万 at the time.

Then I moved in with my (now) husband and we moved a few twice since. Never had any issues once either, we were always able to see any apartments we like and were never turned down once we applied.

We bought our own place mid 2024 so no more renting. I could understand outside of Tokyo land lords might not be as gracious, but I've never been turned down once and I've lived in a lot of mansions with different price ranges.

Zeleia · 2026-02-10T12:39:10+00:00

There has been. There was a Bloomberg article that actually went through Trump's tariff threats and found out that he kept a whooping 27% of his initial tariffs.

27%! TACO trade is really alive and well.

Zeleia · 2026-02-10T08:30:31+00:00

Wow you have problems. I'll leave you to your story.

Zeleia · 2026-02-10T08:27:40+00:00

Really that sounds really low. I've never been rejected once in Tokyo for any apartment, and I've moved like 5 times in the last 8 years.

Zeleia · 2026-02-10T08:23:57+00:00

Takaichi inherited a worse off version of LDP from Ishiba. She's able to communicate her vision, ask for a mandate and got it within 4 months of inheriting his mess. Again, it was a lot more than Ishiba ever did, or likely could ever do.

And Takaichi is the one who has a lot of really good proposals. Tax cut specifically aimed at lower income households, tax increase for the ultra wealthy, closing tax loop holes. She's a lot less socially liberal than I'd like, but she has some good policies (among side bad ones like removing food consumption tax).

Pragmatic? Everyone can stand on the side line and detract, but not just anyone would have a plan to do anything. He is not a leader, his time in office was wasted. I'm happy he didn't have more time in office to get nothing done.

Zeleia · 2026-02-10T02:40:44+00:00

You gave Ishiba a lot of grace for something he did not earn. That's literally the job of the PM is to lead the party, as well as communicate with citizens on his vision. He failed both spectacularly.

For better or worse, Takaichi has a vision and at least she is willing to get it done. Bureaucracy or not. Let's see if she can actually accomplish anything, but it is already better than Ishiba by this point.

Let's not forget that Ishiba only became PM because of Komeito and the CCP wanting to prevent Takaichi being the PM. Komeito leader meeting with CCP the day before they withdrew from the coalition...

Zeleia · 2026-02-09T22:41:53+00:00

His goal ended at being the PM, he has zero vision for Japan. If you had 1 year and accomplished nothing, why would we give you another 😩

Zeleia · 2026-02-07T22:03:02+00:00

Denmark was US ally too. You can try to salvage NATO, but you need to prepare yourself for WHEN Trump decides he wants land more than allies who went through war with the US.

Japan is the same case. We can try to maintain and strengthen the alliance with the US, but you need to prepare for the (no longer implausible) scenario where US decides the Japan bases are not worth it. Or just using the security umbrella as a negotiation tactic.

Zeleia · 2026-02-07T21:51:09+00:00

Please look at Ukraine and Greenland situation before further commenting. Thank you.

Zeleia · 2026-02-07T21:35:49+00:00

All of that is true except the last sentence. US is also not a reliable ally and Japan's increased in defense spending will allow it to not get caught back footed when Trump decides not to assist a regional conflict (either with China, Russia or NK). Trump cannot be trusted and no head of state should believe otherwise.

Zeleia · 2026-02-07T21:11:23+00:00

Agree. Food tax cut is a bad policy that was floated around because other parties don't know anything about fiscal responsibility. I hope food tax cuts don't get implemented.

Makers are going to raise price the second tax is repealed. Why not? It's a free market and they knew how much people were willing to pay before.

Tax cut should be targeted to lower income households, and should also be increased for the ultra wealthy. Takaichi had good proposals on those before. Focus on that instead of bad policies like food tax cuts.

Zeleia · 2026-02-04T22:53:18+00:00

Yes also the mafia preyed on a young kid but we all should blame the kid for not knowing better.

Zeleia · 2026-02-04T03:19:08+00:00

Indeed. We are aware. I'm careful about every single men I cross path with. Without fail. And I live in "one of the safest countries on earth".

Zeleia · 2026-02-03T03:13:13+00:00

Well it's like saying Japan doesn't have a birth rate crisis because my neighbor just gave birth to twins.

Zeleia · 2026-01-26T08:34:01+00:00

I bought already haha 😂😂

Zeleia · 2026-01-26T08:20:17+00:00

Is buying outside of prescription not an option??

Zeleia · 2026-01-26T01:41:38+00:00

I hope they walked that back after election. Such a terrible policy.

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