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YouMeWeThemon Japanese verb conjugation the simple hard way

This is pedantic but you're thinking of "romanization", the act of transliterating Japanese with the Roman alphabet (romaji). There are different systems of romanization, most notably Hepburn and Kunrei. In Hepburn shi is correct, in Kunrei si is correct.

It sounds like you're saying "si" are not valid characters in the Roman alphabet.

YouMeWeThemon Price of rice in Japan falls below ¥4k per 5kg

I got Calrose about a month back for just over 3000 yen, which is slightly cheaper than the homegrown stuff. The issue is that a year ago the homegrown stuff was going for 1500 yen.

YouMeWeThemon Ask HN: What are your most used Chat GPT prompts

But how did you optimize this prompt?

YouMeWeThemon Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

https://wordlerds.pages.dev/

It's Wordle but multiplayer and each player only gets one guess. Right now it's just for my friend group, but I may try to open it up so you can make your own squad with your friends if I have the time.

YouMeWeThemon Japan's abandoned villages

It's finding a domestic company that allows remote work five days a week that's the challenge.

YouMeWeThemon Japan has changed in important and visible ways

FYI, The length-of-stay requirements for permanent residence are actually longer than for citizenship.

Guidelines for Permission for Permanent Residence [1]

> In principle, the person has stayed in Japan for more than 10 years consecutively.

What are the conditions for naturalization? [2]

> The person must have been domiciled in Japan for five years or more consecutively

[1] https://www.moj.go.jp/isa/content/930003492.pdf

[2] https://www.moj.go.jp/EN/MINJI/minji78.html#a09

YouMeWeThemon Japan has changed in important and visible ways

This is a common misconception. The reason you don't hear more about English-speaking westerners gaining Japanese citizenship is because they don't recognize dual citizenship. Renouncing your non-Japanese citizenships is a prerequisite to gaining Japanese citizenship, which is understandably too big a hurdle for many.

YouMeWeThemon Yahoo Japan's password-free authentication reduced inquiries, sped up sign-in

The insistence on using non-standard capitalization in Japanese organization names is too damn high. Why must JAPAN be written in all caps?

(My company similarly insists on not capitalizing the first letter of the name in English text, ugh)

YouMeWeThemon Japan's Hometown Tax (2018)

I would imagine most people earning under the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion limit ($112,000 in 2022) are taking that over the FTC, if just to avoid the headache.

YouMeWeThemon I need to find an apartment

In Japan they're also often missing the "willing to rent to foreigners" flag. Using aggregate sites like Suumo to find places you like ends up being a waste of time when so many places won't even consider you.

YouMeWeThemon Kobayashi’s Maid Dragon Translation Notes

I'm a programmer in Japan. This is completely normal.

It looks ridiculous to have English syntax mixed in with Japanese variables, not great for legibility.

YouMeWeThemon Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names (2010)

The unfortunate thing in Japan, where I (as well as the author, I believe) reside, is that the government decided to cop out on documentation for foreign residents. Every foreign resident is required to carry an official residence card, which is printed with your name exactly as it appears on your passport. You may think "aren't names in passports written with Latin characters?", and you may also be thinking "isn't the official language of Japan written with non-Latin characters?" Yes, to both.

So basically foreign residents don't have an official Japanese transliteration of their name by default. This is a problem because almost all systems in Japan are made with Japanese people in mind. If you have a middle name then you're basically guaranteed to run into an issue at some point where an application requires your name to match your ID exactly, but the internal system only accepts an input of up to (for example) 16 characters.