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One can apply for PR via spousal route after 3 years of marriage at least one year of that being in Japan. She might be on a work status and not spouse/dependent of japanese national, for whatever reason.

On a work status, shed need to notify immigration withing 14 days of losing her job, but there are ways to get time for job hunting. (14 days from death of spouse on spouse visa, for that matter)

I have spouse status, but my PR application is in (spousal route, though I was almost at 10 years working in Japan to go that route anyway).

In my specific case, my status isn't tied to a job. In the average foreign worker's case, there's generally an allowed job-hunting period if employment ends on a work SoR. If unable to find a job then, yes, you would have to leave after your status expires.

They were sitting at the end of the seats at a station and supposedly they were expected to get up and move to another seat whenever someone else wanted to sit?

10 years in Japan now and I have zero clue what this might be referring to. Unless they were marked as priority seats, anyone can sit there. They might have been loud or disturbing without realizing it or something?

Nobody would be speaking on public transport and it would be deemed impolite.

It's not impolite to talk, it's impolite to be loud. It's fantastic, IMO, especially on the early, packed trains going into work in Tokyo and the like; the extra stress of noise is not needed and, many days, it served as a naptime.

Their streets in Japan are clean while there barely are any public garbage bins available.

This very much depends upon the area. They're also clean because people are cleaning up the shit in front of their houses basically every morning. I used to live between some bars and a hotel and those streets were not clean.

I can't answer that, but the reason I'm typing this from Windows is that getting DiVinci to reliably work in linux has been a pain in my ass.

This was presumably just some government-job-specific pension. Japanese law requires paying into a pension scheme so it is doubtful that this is all he had. We also have iDECO and NISA which are like IRA/401k systems.

I am a farmer living on the edge of nowhere; this just wouldn't work in a lot of situations.

Depends. I have a software engineer job (fulltime) and a small family farm I started last year. This time of year, as long as the weather holds, I'm outside doing something most days and weekends, so I don't really have days off. When the weather's bad, it's usually vehicle/tractor/home maintenance stuff or food preservation. Assuming all things are done, wife and I might go into the city for an evening, stay at a hotel, and come back the next day. Sometimes, it's just a lot of sleeping. The rest, I try to sneak in A Link to the Past Randomizer runs when I have some time.

I got on FB when it was still only for students. I quit something like 5 years ago. I never had insta. I quit twitter partially pre-corona and fully deleted it a couple years ago. I mostly just read things, especially during Corona when local governments posted a lot there (until recently, twitter was king in Japan. I think Insta has since dethroned it somewhat).

Anything more than the bearst hint of icing is not for me, personally.

I use vscode for everything these days, but I work mostly in go. I always preferred intellij to eclipse and the like for java and never used vscode for it.

I used to deal with heavy depression, even into my 30s. I also have a number of health issues. That was enough to decide to get snipped. Bringing a kid into this world as things get worse than they have been in a long time in a number of places... absolutely not.