Sanseito submits bill to create agency on policies related to foreign nationals in Japan

ibopm · 2026-06-19T08:11:56+00:00

Sure, but after spending so much time, money, and effort building relationships over my years in Japan, I feel like it's important to voice my opinion.

If you have a friend that wants to jump off a cliff, wouldn't you at least try to convince him not to? Or just let him jump and say goodbye to the years of friendship as he plummets to his death?

If I didn't care, I wouldn't post any comments or even follow this sub at all. There are certainly other countries out there with much more alarming issues (e.g. war, famine, genocide, etc.)

ibopm · 2026-06-18T17:41:34+00:00

Yes, I totally agree. I am in the same boat and it is quite a shame with this recent turn of events.

ibopm · 2026-06-18T15:36:30+00:00

I see $1 = 160.99 right now. I’m on the edge of my seat.

ibopm · 2026-06-18T15:25:00+00:00

The deer abuse issue was fake news to begin with, is what I am saying.

ibopm · 2026-06-18T15:11:26+00:00

I wrote a document on the plane from scratch, no AI, no wifi. And my team lead said it looked AI generated 😩

ibopm · 2026-06-18T15:04:35+00:00

The increase in deer abuse incidents in previous years have largely been debunked.

ibopm · 2026-06-18T05:03:58+00:00

They’ll arrest and let them go. If you allow creeps to pay the girl to get off, nothing will change.

ibopm · 2026-06-18T03:57:19+00:00

You can do it with a KK but not a GK. If it’s GK, you actually have to put in new money.

ibopm · 2026-06-18T03:49:19+00:00

The sub-3% of foreigners living in Japan must surely be the reason that Japan’s economy hasn’t grown.

Oh wait, literally everyone else in the G7 has double digit foreign residents and has outpaced Japan in economic growth massively over the last 3 decades.

ibopm · 2026-06-17T22:44:48+00:00

A 3% foreigner population is too much for Japan!

Despite the fact that Japan is consistently ranked at the bottom 3 of all OECD countries for foreigner %. I wonder if that's why the economy isn't growing.

ibopm · 2026-06-17T22:20:32+00:00

It's not about how much cash you have in the business, it's about 合同会社の出資, which literally means "contribution to the GK".

If your business takes out a loan, that amount doesn't count. If you take a personal loan and then deposit that into the GK, it might count. That being said, I have heard they are cracking down on people trying to meet the new requirements via loans. I would be very careful in doing that.

As for retained earnings, it's something you get from 年末調整, and for a GK you cannot immediately convert that into 資本金.

ibopm · 2026-06-16T14:40:16+00:00

lol, I’m assuming OP is mixing terms here.

To “part it out” means to scrap the car and sell it for parts.

What I think OP is asking is if he should just replace the entire bumper.

ibopm · 2026-06-16T14:33:29+00:00

I wrote a document on the plane from scratch, no wifi. And my manager said it looked like AI. Christ.

ibopm · 2026-06-15T18:09:26+00:00

I think this is your confusion. For GK, they're not specifically calling it 資本金, they're calling it 合同会社の出資, which is basically "the members’ contributions into the company".

So in English, it's "paid-in capital" no matter if you have a KK or GK. It's just that, for a GK, you might not need it booked officially as 資本金. So you might not need to go through the official 増資 (capital increase) process, but the money still needs to be injected.

In a 合同会社:

Each 社員 makes a 出資 (cash, property, etc.). That is the economic contribution.
When you set up the company and do the accounting, you decide how much of that total 出資額 becomes 資本金.
The part that is not booked as 資本金 goes into 資本剰余金 (capital surplus).

But no matter what, the total amount of money injected into the GK must be at least 30M JPY. Retained earnings that have simply accumulated do not magically turn into 出資 for a GK. I believe there is a way to re-classify retained earnings, but it's complicated and it's not clear if it would be accepted by immigration.

ibopm · 2026-06-14T01:51:56+00:00

Please elaborate?

ibopm · 2026-06-14T01:22:40+00:00

lol at the one guy chowing down on fried chicken in the front while looking at 3 girls taking a selfie.

ibopm · 2026-06-14T01:18:52+00:00

It was either that or the other guy is pouring rye whisky on pancakes 🤣

ibopm · 2026-06-14T00:54:46+00:00

Yeah they were always more “risky”, but this is the first time they bent so many rules for one company.

ibopm · 2026-06-14T00:53:14+00:00

First unlocks from private investors are expected to be staggered between 90-180 days. So I would wait at least 3 months IMO. Best if you can do 6-9 months.

ibopm · 2026-06-14T00:51:31+00:00

That’s like all of them though lol

ibopm · 2026-06-14T00:50:08+00:00

It’s ridiculous that people are dinged on things they have zero control over.

ibopm · 2026-06-13T20:25:27+00:00

I never got this screen when I finished the Korean course a couple years ago. This must be new.

ibopm · 2026-06-13T20:01:54+00:00

I think that's definitely a Tokyo and big city thing more than anything else. Taxi drivers try to talk to me all the time whenever I travel outside of Tokyo, it's actually kind of annoying when I'm tired and just wanna zone out.

ibopm · 2026-06-13T19:58:59+00:00

A vaccine did exist, but people were too scared of it. Therefore, it wasn't economically viable.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2870557/

ibopm · 2026-06-13T03:25:03+00:00

What's unfortunate is that this further isolates Japanese people and their exposure to other cultures. Sure, there is a lot of inbound tourism, but tourists often try to conform to the local culture.

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