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I loved the QR code passport stamps Japan previously used. Are those no more?
I don't think so. My passport is somewhere around the house so I can't just grab it to check but last time I came in they just put it on a scanner and took a photograph of me when I went through immigration.
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Those laws where designed before you had the relativelly new phenomenon of digital nomads. They were created so the local companies wouldn't hire foreign citizens under the table, skirting taxes and depressing wages for local workers, which would be an unpopular outcome amongst voters.
Working for a local company is an entirely different thing, and not what I’m asking about at all.
For every petit-bourguoise privileged nomad software engineer there are thousands of potential low-skill foreign workers that companies are eager to employ to pay less and circumvent local worker protection laws.
All the fiscalization and enforcement structure along with the law is designed for this use case and any seemingly innocuos exception on the law can be exploited by bad actors, so, govern are relutant to do so just because a few rich kids from sillicon valley want to play modern colonial dandy.
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I feel like everyone is missing "in 2011".
Yeah, that's $2,102.58 in 2024 dollars due to a 40.2% cumulative rate of inflation since then according to usinflationcalculator.com
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They have ovens...just super tiny and meant for fish only https://www.yamada-denkiweb.com/category/202/006/001/
Those are "grills". If you want to bake stuff, you can get real ovens, but they're fairly small, and not built into the apartment, and usually combined with a microwave oven. Any decent appliance store sells them for around 30,000 yen. You're not going to cook a turkey in it, but if you want to bake a small cake it's perfect.
My recollection of the countertop oven is that it would fit half a small size turkey...for we did do that one year.
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Yeah, that's $2,102.58 in 2024 dollars due to a 40.2% cumulative rate of inflation since then according to usinflationcalculator.com
We're talking about apartments in Japan, not the US. The high inflation rate in the US doesn't apply here.
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My studio apartment in California is $1500/month. At the same price, I would be in a 3-room Tokyo flat yesterday!
And that's on the cheaper end of California!