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7/25/2025, 2:30:42 AM
Here's the thing about Japan a lot of Westerners don't realize. Their government, banking, financial bureaucracy is backwards and annoying as fuck.
In America they tend to make it easy for you to pay people. America, in it's capitalistic nature, wants to make it easy for people to give companies money. Japan however makes everything unnecessarily more of a pain in the ass than it needs to be. Want to pay your electric bill automatically online? Sorry you get a letter in the mail and then have to go to a convenience store and pay it there. Oh you want to pay it all at once but misplaced the letter for June? Whelp guess you better contact the utlity company and go through a whole lengthy phone call to fix this issue.
You're a foreigner trying to pay rent? Well fuck you the renting company insists you pay through a Japanese bank account and you can't start the bank account without the proper government form and you can't get the government form without an address and none of this was described to you before you signed the lease because fuck you.
Banking in Japan is a huge pain in the ass and it extends far beyond them just being weirdly prudish about "adult content".
In America they tend to make it easy for you to pay people. America, in it's capitalistic nature, wants to make it easy for people to give companies money. Japan however makes everything unnecessarily more of a pain in the ass than it needs to be. Want to pay your electric bill automatically online? Sorry you get a letter in the mail and then have to go to a convenience store and pay it there. Oh you want to pay it all at once but misplaced the letter for June? Whelp guess you better contact the utlity company and go through a whole lengthy phone call to fix this issue.
You're a foreigner trying to pay rent? Well fuck you the renting company insists you pay through a Japanese bank account and you can't start the bank account without the proper government form and you can't get the government form without an address and none of this was described to you before you signed the lease because fuck you.
Banking in Japan is a huge pain in the ass and it extends far beyond them just being weirdly prudish about "adult content".
7/25/2025, 2:30:42 AM
Here's the thing about Japan a lot of Westerners don't realize. Their government, banking, financial bureaucracy is backwards and annoying as fuck.
In America they tend to make it easy for you to pay people. America, in it's capitalistic nature, wants to make it easy for people to give companies money. Japan however makes everything unnecessarily more of a pain in the ass than it needs to be. Want to pay your electric bill automatically online? Sorry you get a letter in the mail and then have to go to a convenience store and pay it there. Oh you want to pay it all at once but misplaced the letter for June? Whelp guess you better contact the utlity company and go through a whole lengthy phone call to fix this issue.
You're a foreigner trying to pay rent? Well fuck you the renting company insists you pay through a Japanese bank account and you can't start the bank account without the proper government form and you can't get the government form without an address and none of this was described to you before you signed the lease because fuck you.
Banking in Japan is a huge pain in the ass and it extends far beyond them just being weirdly prudish about "adult content".
In America they tend to make it easy for you to pay people. America, in it's capitalistic nature, wants to make it easy for people to give companies money. Japan however makes everything unnecessarily more of a pain in the ass than it needs to be. Want to pay your electric bill automatically online? Sorry you get a letter in the mail and then have to go to a convenience store and pay it there. Oh you want to pay it all at once but misplaced the letter for June? Whelp guess you better contact the utlity company and go through a whole lengthy phone call to fix this issue.
You're a foreigner trying to pay rent? Well fuck you the renting company insists you pay through a Japanese bank account and you can't start the bank account without the proper government form and you can't get the government form without an address and none of this was described to you before you signed the lease because fuck you.
Banking in Japan is a huge pain in the ass and it extends far beyond them just being weirdly prudish about "adult content".
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