In some contexts intentionally yes, in some accidentally yes, and in others absolutely not. I've been in Japan 10 years.
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Vacation > Student Visa > Work Visa > Spouse Visa > PR application in place (in my specific case)
Doesn't help what? Dealing with the systemic issues of work culture, sexism, etc. would be a good start to helping.
It all looks good, but the eggs on the gravy is not something I'd want, personally.
Everyone spotted wearing these should be noted and never allowed to hold office again (and preferably rot in a prison for life). This is gross.
As someone who lives in Japan, I've got some bad news for you...
The good news is that it's mostly just the olds. The bad news is that it isn't exclusively just the older generations.
Clean place to stand to change clothes without getting your socks/feet on the rest of the gross floor? I've seen those in some washrooms around the world.
A parent has Celiac's and I know I'm a carrier of one of the associated variants related to it from an old DNA test. For unrelated reasons (positive for blood fecal occult of yearly health check), I had cameras in basically all of me and they found no indications. However, I had been mostly gluten free for months. Before the stomach camera, I did eat gluten for a few days, but nothing interesting showed up. I was told I could do some blood tests off insurance at a high price (probably not too crazy since this is Japan and not the US), but it wouldn't actually be useful; currently there are no medications approved for use in relation to celiac's in Japan and it would just make my life insurance more expensive and have other potential weird side effects.
My mom and her side have always had issues as well, being diagnosed as IBS among other things. I chose to get sterilized so at least the problem, whatever it is, ends here, heh.
Wash, sprinkle with sea salt, wrap in foil, bake until done, cut open, add butter (and more salt if needed), and enjoy.
More potatoes might change things, but with 1 that seems like the best bet.
I don't think the two are fully related, at least not causally. If 1-3 are true, then there should be a large enough pool with things in common to avoid loneliness. If this specifically means sexual/relationship loneliness than, yeah.
Third spaces going away and moving a lot online has definitely had an impact on people hanging out outside of much more niche groups. I don't care for organized religion much, but people of various backgrounds worshipped together. People had volleyball and other local leagues made up of all kinds of people who saw a flier for it. Men (not sure if women had something similar) went to fraternal order of the whatevers. Hell, dad and I went to Commodore computer enthusiast meet-ups. I think the loss of things like that has been bad for a number of reasons, including loneliness.
BRB -- I have to tell the country of Japan they're doing dates wrong /s.
For the things I'm thinking about, the year generally doesn't matter. I'm thinking advertisements or even things that say like 'Spring 2025 menu 2025年の春メヌー' or something which preserves context. A lot are also written on shop whiteboards and such which are changed fairly regularly. In my own notes, in anything I may care about that far into the future, I do write the full date in ISO-8601
Many places allow two visits totalling 180 days, but I'm not personally aware of any one-shot half-year. That's also largely on the waiver program and immigration is not obligated to let one into the country if it looks like they're trying to actually live there (visa runs for a couple days used to be a huge problem here).