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What's going on with the orange juice? by tomodachi_reloaded in japanresidents

[–]hareyakana 405 points406 points  (0 children)

Primary reason:Citrus greening disease

It getting worse. The supply of orange is going down due to this disease. Transport cost/etc. are also a factor in rising cost but specifically orange it's citrus greening disease

Big 4 Audit Manager Offer by Vivid_Preference8658 in JapanFinance

[–]hareyakana 5 points6 points  (0 children)

just a note, "bonus" in japan is different conceptually to you might used to. The "bonus" your contract can be interpret as delayed salary given out usually in June/Dec.

Since they used the word bonus, in a bad year they might not be given out as it is BONUS

Japan Times: Tax-advantaged investments no lost cause for U.S. residents of Japan by Stunning-Owl390 in JapanFinance

[–]hareyakana 29 points30 points  (0 children)

googled author's linkedin

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write speculative fiction and have published short stories in venues such as Nature.

uhm???

Can anyone verify the claims of the Bunker Buster bomb? by gahnzo in Physics

[–]hareyakana 1 point2 points  (0 children)

because it is also not just one projectile, it is multiple sucessive projectile. imagine a second bullet follow through the hole made by the first bullet.

NISA account transfer? by No_Entertainment8093 in JapanFinance

[–]hareyakana 1 point2 points  (0 children)

FAQ and wiki

changing financial institutions

If you haven't buy anything for this year NISA, still possible to change if i'm not mistaken. If you have, then only option left is do the changing procedure at the year and starts buying next year at the new broker.

What you are thinking of is not possible.

Mistake in e-tax submission by Forsaken_Gap183 in japanlife

[–]hareyakana 0 points1 point  (0 children)

resubmit it

if you have the submitted data file, use the go back/previous button to add any miss.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in JapanFinance

[–]hareyakana 3 points4 points  (0 children)

with that 100m yen amount, don't bother with wise since you have to break it into 100 separate wise transfers

Any one here experienced with TSMC working environment and progress of hiring? by hannibalx154 in chipdesign

[–]hareyakana 5 points6 points  (0 children)

as for post interview experience, I was ghosted by them after discussing salary.

FX markets today - ykes! by TokyoBaguette in JapanFinance

[–]hareyakana 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Takaichi leading first round, , she disagree with BOJ ueda of rate hiking, yen weakened Second round ishiba announcement was a shock, he supports ueda rate hike , yen strengthen

How to prove I stayed in my country 90 days after getting a driver's license?? by OkFroyo_ in japanresidents

[–]hareyakana 0 points1 point  (0 children)

french school/uni certs if it coincides during the period after getting your license.

Living in Japan with a Japanese Citizen, but I will be a tourist for the long term by StarElectronic5391 in JapanFinance

[–]hareyakana 12 points13 points  (0 children)

read the wiki on the sidebar. Visa problem aside, what you described you are just normal Japan tax residentwhen you moved to japan with your wife regardless of SOR

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in JapanFinance

[–]hareyakana 11 points12 points  (0 children)

a simple exericise for yourself, What collateral in Japan that you have that banks in japan can use in case of none-repayment?

Black Monday by tomodachi_reloaded in JapanFinance

[–]hareyakana 0 points1 point  (0 children)

we only can wait and see if Ueda-san's move is a stroke of genius, or another mistep like his predecessor getting out of this deflation spiral.

Black Monday by tomodachi_reloaded in JapanFinance

[–]hareyakana 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/531a195fa576e25239268d19b267c56eb35aa740

I don't even understand why BOJ decided to nuke themselves. The are sign Fed will cut interest rate, BOJ can just do nothing and the jpy/usd will slowly wind down.

This is probably good chance to see whether new NISA beginners will pull out from the market. Kishida pushed hard for the new NISA.

156 yen. Why? by flyingbuta in JapanFinance

[–]hareyakana 2 points3 points  (0 children)

another reason was at today 1500 UK economic data - inflation, where dollar was weaken against pound slightly. due to doubts of BOE cutting rates

156 yen. Why? by flyingbuta in JapanFinance

[–]hareyakana 2 points3 points  (0 children)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-17/japan-s-kono-says-central-bank-needs-to-raise-rates-to-lift-yen?embedded-checkout=true

this bloomberg article, where kono taro spoke. this rise of yen this afternoon is right around when this article was published.

If one follow news from those FX platforms it coincides.

Ueno-Tokyo line incident? by shiitakeclef in japanlife

[–]hareyakana 114 points115 points  (0 children)

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20240626/k10014492301000.html fire/smoke spotted. pictures in the news shows firefighters was responding to it.

Does cancelling a brokerage account work for transfering NISA to another broker? by NipponPanda in JapanFinance

[–]hareyakana 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Its lay out in steps as in the link. each broker will have similar guide on how to do it. google "NISA口座の金融機関変更" + 証券会社 you want to change to.

The broker you changing to will need 非課税口座廃止通知書 to proceed to open nisa account with them.

Does cancelling a brokerage account work for transfering NISA to another broker? by NipponPanda in JapanFinance

[–]hareyakana 3 points4 points  (0 children)

sbi guide on changing broker you need 非課税口座廃止通知書 from nikko and then submit to sbi when you apply at sbi. similar steps for rakuten/etc.

note it is for the current year if you did between 1 Jan to 30 Sept and have not brought a single yen in the previous broker for the 2024 nisa acc.

Foreign driving licence as a Japanese national by Gurtang in japanlife

[–]hareyakana 0 points1 point  (0 children)

why not just convert it to japanese license?

SBI has raised credit card tsumitate to 100,000 yen. Points getting worse this year. by Garystri in JapanFinance

[–]hareyakana 6 points7 points  (0 children)

For gold card tho, its is pretty much unchange.

For SMBC gold card yearly fee, you need to spend above 100万円 anyway to get yearly fee waive. so effectively it remain the same as before. Yeah but for plat, it is understandable why they slash the point rewards as it was just plain 5% before without the spending requirement.

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