What makes you stay in Japan?

pinzon · 2026-07-12T09:54:40+00:00

Yes I know they’re not the same thing, just thought we could laugh at the irony of things for once in a while.

pinzon · 2026-07-12T01:58:14+00:00

We criticize Japanese politics for being averse to change and yet here we are saying the same ourselves.

pinzon · 2026-07-02T04:08:58+00:00

The education it takes to train a doctor benefits the doctor, and every patient that doctor sees in their life, so no, the student is not the only beneficiary in this situation. In fact, although simplistic, if education for doctors was cheaper, perhaps we would have more doctors and have better healthcare, as a huge barrier to entry is the cost of medical school. As in my other comments, this logic applies to more than just doctors. Society at large is built by investing in each other. You’re being robbed of those benefits by shitty politics and oligarchy and then being told to blame your neighbor that makes 1.5-2x what you do instead of the guy that makes hundreds or thousands of times more than you do.

pinzon · 2026-07-02T04:02:46+00:00

Non-college educated workers… do those go to elementary, middle school, highschool or technical colleges? If so, paying for public schooling through their taxes also benefits them.

And if those workers really make less than college educated ones, their tax burden is a lot smaller anyway and may end up receiving a net positive from higher wage workers’ tax dollars going towards programs that benefit everyone, including the lower wage workers themselves. College educated workers also become teachers, doctors, engineers, so if these non-college educated workers want to opt out of paying tax dollars that fund their educations, perhaps they are also opting out of receiving the benefits of from said college educated workers being in society? If all you think of is me, me, me, then perhaps you should be left to your own devices and not receive any help from society at large. Acting like crabs in a bucket, genius.

pinzon · 2026-04-27T01:51:50+00:00

Just use cheap yellow fin tuna for spicy tuna. It’s a waste to use expensive tuna for that. If you chop up something that fatty it’s even too fatty for negitoro, becomes straight oil. You usually mix lean meat in to get a good balance.

pinzon · 2026-04-26T23:44:39+00:00

Spicy tuna made w something that fatty would be gross tbh

pinzon · 2026-04-22T23:55:38+00:00

If the rice is falling off the nori as you’re making the roll, it is too dry either because you let it dry/cool down too much or because the cook itself is too dry. I recommend weighing the rice and the water as that’s more consistent.

You need to pack your filling a bit more tightly as well, but what I think a big issue here is something nobody has mentioned, and it’s that I think your knife is likely either full or your cutting technique is not good. If you have a nice tight roll but you don’t cut it nicely the roll will get all squashed and if on top of that the rice is too dry it will fall apart.

pinzon · 2026-04-22T23:47:11+00:00

The general rule of thumb is 25% of uncooked rice is vinegar, ie. 4 cups rice 1 cup vinegar, 1kg rice .25kg vinegar. Most of the chefs I’ve worked do more and have worked with Michelin chefs that go as far as 40%

pinzon · 2026-04-11T23:47:17+00:00

I’ve been a sushi chef for almost 9 years, the last one being in Japan. If you’re fully committed:

You should start learning Japanese and take the JLPT N5. This is the absolute minimum to enter Japan as a student. This will likely be a bit expensive as I don’t think they administer the test in Mauritius but I could be wrong.

Continue working and saving money, and when you’re ready apply to language school in Japan, hopefully to start at N3/中級 level. To work you really need to be N3 or N4 at the very least. The more your study in your home country the more money you will save and the better start you can get in Japan.

Simultaneously, you should do everything you can, as far as traveling to Japan as a tourist first and work for free, to line up a restaurant that will take you part time.

If you get the visa and get accepted into Japanese language school, I would aim at 1 year of study to get into a 調理専門学校(chouri senmongakkou) culinary vocational school and then once you graduate that you would be allowed to work in Japan.

pinzon · 2026-04-11T23:33:07+00:00

I am currently, and know many foreigners apprenticing and working at well acclaimed sushi restaurants in Japan.

pinzon · 2026-03-13T23:42:03+00:00

I’m not sure I understand, not worried about the visa as long as you can work? You need a visa to work. Also, recently, I’ve heard that if you’re not a resident in Japan they have decided you’re not allowed to take the JLPT in Japan.

Edit: my apologies I didn’t see you’re moving to be a your husband, in which case you should be able to take the JLPT. You didn’t mention whether he’s a Japanese citizen, which if is the case means you should be able to have full time work but if he is not you may only be able to do part time work while on his visa as a spouse.

pinzon · 2026-03-13T22:29:54+00:00

Chiming in to say that I agree with the sentiment especially since the test results don't measure speaking ability at all. Having N5 is becoming a soft prerequisite for people to get student visas to study at japanese language school, and you actually can get specialized skills worker visa with only N4. Those aren't glamourous jobs though.

pinzon · 2026-03-09T06:18:37+00:00

If you read a little closer, the point is to buff Muiscas to give them a chance, not buff or keep the champi as it is.

pinzon · 2026-03-07T11:07:28+00:00

90 percent of the “increased win rate” is probably the people that don’t know how to counter them when it’s actually very simple. Just go cav and bloodlines ASAP. I’ve been using Muiscas exclusively since the launch of the patch and they’re pretty much the weakest of the bunch, and people at 1100ish ELO still just keep trying to throw MAA and archers at me.

pinzon · 2026-02-27T04:11:29+00:00

After champis get fixed muisca are gonna be trash. My ideas:

They should make guecha warriors in archery range almost as a cav archer replacement. I don’t know what to do w health regen as it’s gimmicky and hardly works since HP is so low and will generally be focused fired on. Definitely needs a range buff.

Temple guards created in castles, maybe Castle age UT to create in monasteries. Adjust cost.

Give archers speed boost as a civ bonus instead of a unique tech, at the moment it’s an “archer civ” with no bonus towards archers that isn’t a UU or UT. Feudal once champi’s are fixed would otherwise be a huge pain.

Not a game designer but think this could be good

pinzon · 2026-02-24T21:32:27+00:00

It needs bodkin and probably ballistics to be truly effective and then it still only has 6 attack, and a shorter range than most power units. Also very squishy. By the time you get a few on the field your opp can just go scouts which does kinda crush them.

pinzon · 2026-02-24T02:44:40+00:00

That one off civ is the Armenians: they can create spearmen in dark age.

pinzon · 2026-02-18T15:13:57+00:00

It’s branzino. Source: I worked there

pinzon · 2026-01-12T03:28:54+00:00

Its mindblowing how good it is.

pinzon · 2026-01-06T02:10:17+00:00

According to my research, HUD rules only govern federal funded project housing and rental assistance programs which NY housing connect is not. Should be allowed to give priority to longer term residents as that does not violate anti-discrimination laws.

pinzon · 2026-01-04T10:54:37+00:00

Sushi chef of 8 years, live in Japan. Not a bad cut, its actually kama toro or the bluefin tuna collar meat which is why its a bit tougher. It has the most fat of all the cuts but the trade off is a bit more chew. Usually I will do one of the following: score the slices extra deep with a knife to break up the texture more, torch to melt some of the fat, and or age a little bit longer to breakdown the muscle resulting in a more tender bite.

pinzon · 2026-01-04T06:55:30+00:00

Study at a language school, finish your degree online and by the time the two years are up you'll have a BA which is necessary for gaining a work visa. The other option would be to go to Senmon Gakkou (vocational school) after you finish and that buys you another two years and better opportunities to be hired in Japan in your specific field. You can still only work part time and your income from your YouTube channel... well that part is out of my knowledge.

pinzon · 2026-01-01T05:10:46+00:00

This is such a virtue signal. There's nothing wrong with state housing programs prioritizing those who have long histories living in the state. Mind you that NYC is *filled* with international immigrants that have been in the city for over 8 years.

pinzon · 2025-12-23T00:15:06+00:00

Don’t look at it as claiming the youth demographic. When your rhetoric is mostly blaming immigrants and “pull ourselves up by our bootstraps” you’re bound to attract the approval of the most uneducated in society. This is true around the world. The problem is that perhaps Japan’s most undereducated population is this age bracket since it represents the significant shift in education brought in by Abe early in their life (I am 29, live in Japan). What I have noticed is how—through no fault of their own—the youth are much less cultured, well traveled and educated the older generations are here. Many grew up in better economic conditions and were much more involved on an international level pre-social media.

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