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tokyo-based editor/journalist. punk rock swiftie. prev: senior editor @rollingstone 🇨🇺
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CNBC gave air time to two people who complained that
@Ocasio2018
didn't have a year's salary or "anywhere between $8,750 and $30,000" in savings — all while ignoring the fact those unrealistic/unattainable numbers are why millennials are entering politics in the first place.
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Yes, conversations about misogynistic double standards ARE important. But don’t make yourself a martyr for the cause by bringing down other women to make a point. Feminism is already for delicate cisgender white women, Lana. You’ve had a place at the table for a long time.
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@Dawggbrain
@YouSeeGundam
no lie, though. costco is the closest to america i feel in japan. it's like a portal to burbank, just with bulgogi bake in the food court.
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Witnessed the most Japanese thing to ever Japan yesterday: Husband and I visit his friend's shop in Saitama. Salaryman comes to the door holding a briefcase and a cooler asking to speak to said friend, explaining he's a representative from a food company's Tokyo office. 1/
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Biggest controversy on Japanese internet (and now, finally, in Japanese media) involves the targeted assault of Yamaguchi Maho, a member of the Niigata-based idol group NGT48, a sister group of AKB48 (which I think Westerners are more familiar with). #山口真帆
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The only way I could have realistically saved $30k between graduating college and now is: Living at home with my parents (which people hate on millennials for); not paying towards any expenses (see above); and skipping grad school.
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some child murderers and rapists get less jail time than this. just wanna throw that out there.
Watanabe Mai aka "Sugar Baby Riri", who was arrested for defrauding men on dating sites of 150M yen (USD $970K) - and writing a "manual" teaching others how to do the same - has been convicted by a court in Nagoya. She'll serve 9 years in prison and owe 80M yen (516K).
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"What you need to do is stop focusing on other people. Focus on yourself and focus on your craft because you're out here fucking up your legacy lookin' like a hater." WOW feel ~extremely dragged~ by this Cardi B video bomb quote.
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"I am truly sorry for the trouble I caused...I am sorry for being an inconvenience to those who took care of me." Remember, Yamaguchi was assaulted, presumably due to actions by her bandmates — and yet she's forced to admit wrongdoing. #山口真帆
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@punished_cait
guess i'm some special sort of deranged freak, because not only did i regularly drop off/pick up people at LAX, i've done the same multiple times in tokyo. time to start being a Bad Friend, i guess! /s
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@kathbarbadoro
@helen
I AM still confused why this was “the look” for so many girls aged 16-21 in the mid 00s. Dark times.
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Oh no. Not this again.
Any story about akiya needs to come with a giant disclaimer in big, bolded text that says: Owning property does not give you a pathway to residency! Akiya often come with a LOT of rules you probably will never be able to satisfy!
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@nessguerrero
A place for residents to gather and socialize? Check! Money injected into local small business? Check! Generally well-lit and bustling with people at all hours? Check and check! Literally saving communities, one al pastor taco at a time.
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@offbeatorbit
also, she continues to get hotter with each passing year, so idk what this doofus is on about
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The guy then has my husband try the old vs. new version of the salad — I explain I'm allergic to crustaceans and decline the sample — and then thanks him for his feedback. Salaryman hands husband's friend an envelope with ￥350, thanks us and heads back to Tokyo (!!) さすが。 5/5
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I doubt this is the last we'll hear of the ensuing fallout from Yamaguchi Maho's assault, and I'll do my best to stay updated on current developments when my schedule allows me to read/translate Japanese tabloids 🙇🏻♀️
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I’ve also never seen a cookbook open with an acknowledgement of the impact colonization and slavery had upon cooking and baking in the West.
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According to NHK, on the evening of Dec. 8, Yamaguchi was accosted at the entrance of her home in Niigata by two men who pinned her to the ground and covered her mouth. The men told her they "only wanted to talk" and that it "wasn't a big deal." #山口真帆
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In his 2021 memoir, Dave Grohl called Taylor Hawkins his "best friend and partner in crime," writing, "we were a hyperactive blur of Parliament Lights and air drumming wherever we went."
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Now, several hours later, here's an employee of that company traveling 1.5 hrs out to Nowheresville, Saitama to not only apologize in person, but to bring a tweaked less-salty version of the seafood salad for husband's friend to try — AND to refund the ￥350 cost of the salad! 3/
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I literally cannot imagine what it's like to be a teenage girl growing up in Japan and being constantly subjected to unnaturally ridiculous anime titties all the time.
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Maybe newsrooms shouldn’t use their platforms as a way to promote stories centered around unfounded claims against marginalized peoples designed to elicit negative, hate-filled reactions from a very specific (white, wealthy) audience?
Ask yourself: Who is this content for?
VIGIL FOR BELOVED DOG: Togo, a rescue who was recently trained as a service animal, was killed in a house fire in Venice, and his family believes the fire was started by someone in the surrounding homeless community.
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The Captain America helmet, that fucking chopper, the effortlessly cool style. If you know anything about American motorcycle culture, you know the impact Peter Fonda had upon its aesthetics.
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To the West, all this "idol drama" can easily come off as "WACKY JAPAN!" nonsense — but these incidents and lack of regulation in the idol industry are as serious as the abuses committed in the Western entertainment industry.
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The controversy surrounding NGT48 member Yamaguchi Maho's assault continues — and this time, Hanazumi Hideyo, governor of Niigata Prefecture, is weighing in. As expected when male politicians comment on targeted harassment of women, Hanazumi's response is...not great. #山口真帆
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"all-female writers room" was something four years at USC film school with 100% male writing professors led me to believe was never possible
Wanted to tell u what having a show on Seeso allowed us to do. I am so proud of
#TakeMyWife
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Damn, Taylor Swift advocating for the dismantlement of monuments to white supremacy AND giving props to Ida B. Wells?! Keep tweeting, girl. I love it. 🥺
FYI, he was a white supremacist newspaper editor who published pro-lynching editorials and incited the arson of the office of Ida B. Wells (who actually deserves a hero’s statue for her pioneering work in journalism and civil rights).
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@MaraWilson
Pronouns? Nah, you don’t need them. Have fun following conversations!
— Japanese
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On Japanese Twitter, there's some backlash toward Matchan's comments, and a few media outlets are wondering if this will affect his future bookings — but this is Japan, where powerful men face few repercussions for their actions. I'm not holding my breath.
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"People reminisce on the quality of life back when Alien Ant Farm released a rendition of Michael Jackson’s Smooth Criminal in 1999" is truly a sentence I never expected to read in my lifetime — and yet, here we are.
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I'm sitting there watching the entire scene play out, trying so fucking hard not to laugh while my husband (who can't understand much Japanese) is confused. Employee explains that they have immediately decided to make the seafood salad less salty based on this feedback. 4/
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As someone who has struggled with an eating disorder for ~16 years, and as someone who, during the worst parts of my illness, looked to
@taylorswift13
as a model of the "ideal" body, this is so important to read. All women struggle, feel "less than perfect" — even when we are.
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I like how Stevie Nicks' knowledge of boy bands, like mine, also starts and stops at 1998.
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Uh, so if you order the sakura latte at Starbucks right now, you get a QR code that makes...this happen.
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Why is Hanazumi so invested in brushing away the scandal? He knows the group is a huge driver of nationwide recognition for Niigata, calling NGT48 "a beloved part of the charm of Niigata tourism." NGT48 means big business for the prefecture. #山口真帆
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A small legion of Yamaguchi's fans are rightfully outraged. "Why does the victim have to apologize? Isn't NGT's management at fault? I'm crying."
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Hanazumi offered no words of support or sympathy for Yamaguchi — who, regardless of the situation, was still assaulted and made to feel unsafe in her home — but he did say he "[hopes] the scandal doesn't impact the public perception of [Niigata]."
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Hey, since we cancelled Aunt Jemima, can we maybe cancel this racist-ass bakery in my neighborhood?
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a lot to unpack here — but uh, let’s not do this?? vloggers are a cancer.
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@yn0htn1
@RyDawson2
Are you fucking stupid? Because you’re fucking stupid.
Many Black people hold Japanese citizenship, are born in Japan and/or are Japanese permanent residents. I’m sure if you lived here, you’d know this. But I can only guess you’re wanking into an anime pillow somewhere.
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It doesn't stop here: Sadly, Yamaguchi's assault is now the subject Japanese variety show punchlines. On the Jan. 13 episode of "Wide Night Show," the conversation turned to the NGT48 scandal. It did not go well. #山口真帆
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Is anyone else in Japan frustrated by Western media holding up this country as some grand example of a smart coronavirus response simply because reported/documented deaths are low? There’s so many factors at play, but a number doesn’t reveal the whole situation.
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Former AKB48 and current HGT48 member Sashihara Rina (
@345__chan
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@ashleyn1cole
Almost finished with watching Gilmore Girls for the first time, and this describes the show 100% perfectly. Who are all these Brown people in the town meetings???
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My grandmother was forced by the Castro regime to teach reading/writing to Cubans living in the countryside. This meant was separated from my father, her only child, against her will for SEVEN YEARS. Very curious what Bernie thinks of this "touching" story. 🙃
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Sexual abuse, パワハラ(power harassment), sexual exploitation, emotional and psychological abuse and overwork run rampant in the idol machine — and it's not limited to the women, as Johnny's (big boy band agency) has its own allegations it's tried to silence for 40+ years.
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Kitahara Rie, a former member of NGT, posted a statement on Twitter indicating she believed that Yamaguchi should not have to apologize for speaking out, calling the situation "absolutely wrong." #山口真帆
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Republicans literally relying on, “And that baby? He grew up to be Albert Einstein” stories to demonstrate why the government should legislate what women do with their bodies.
DeSantis's abortion policy is doubling down on the same position that has been killing Republicans for more than a year now
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Sashihara deflected by laughing off the comment, calling Matsumoto "crazy" — but a few days later, she took to Twitter to admit she laughed because she was nervous and re-watched the tape to make sure she heard him correctly.
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In one of the deleted Tweets (screencapped here), Yamaguchi explains management doesn't care because they are men and don't understand the fear women experience on a daily basis. "Walking outside somewhere by myself is frightening," she wrote. #山口真帆
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@jackallisonLOL
@ElvinaBeck
@LAController
@PodShare
I love how so-called “affordable housing” solutions are clearly designed, implemented and marketed towards a very specific type of Angeleno (ie the type who don’t need affordable housing and just refuse to live in, like, Burbank because it’s “not cool.”) 🙃
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If Yamaguchi's information was leaked by her fellow group members (or, as some fans are speculating, that the attack was ordered by group members), it's just another example of how the massive idol conglomerates and Japanese police don't protect these young women. #山口真帆
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Matsumoto Hitoshi (AKA Matchan), one of the biggest comedians in Japan, quickly jumped in, joking that idols who fear for their safety should "just use [their] body, that's what it's made for" to stop assaults. #山口真帆
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Sashihara ended her Tweet with a savage retort: "I hope Matsumoto-san is deprived of work."
ワイドナショー、緊張しすぎて本当に記憶がほとんどなく…😨💦
改めて録画をチェック…
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…松本さんが干されますように🙏✨✨！！！
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Meanwhile, NGT48 management is allegedly considering moving group members to another apartment complex, as it was revealed some fans had taken to renting units in the same building as the NGT48 girls. #山口真帆
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Fun fact for the "Japan doesn't need to increase testing" crowd: Today's record-high of 1,591 new coronavirus cases in Tokyo are the result of JUST 4,477 tests conducted on Jan 3.
That's a positive rate of 35.5%.
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Turns out, earlier that day, husband's friend went to the Daily Yamazaki around the corner from his shop and purchased a seafood salad produced by said company. He ate it and thought it was too salty — so, he decides to send the company an email to complain. 2/
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At a recent press conference, Hanazumi was quoted as saying, "As soon as the facts of the case are made clear, I hope everything returns to normal." (Oof.) #山口真帆
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The world is thirsty for silliness. We haven't had a "stupid" mainstream comedy in 15+ years. "I'm Just Ken" was the closest we've gotten to silly, dumb, feel-good laughs in years. I wish Hollywood would realize not everything needs to be serious. The sad songs don't have to win.
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Just to stress the gravity of today's shooting of former PM Shinzo Abe: According to the National Police Agency, Japan recorded a single gun-related fatality in 2021 — down from four in 2020.
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Just a reminder that I’ve been dragging Sqirl since the beginning, and I’ll happily do so until it runs itself into the ground 🙃
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Not only is this new Kit Kat flavor very delicious, it also has adorable packaging 🦦
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@BriannaWalks
@aubrey_huff
Nice fake account created in February you have there. Photo is from 2016 of a woman named Lisa. You MAGA bots don’t even try anymore.
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insanely excited to announce i’m
@RollingStone
’s newest senior news editor. so excited to work with
@NoahShachtman
@lisatozzi
and to be coworkers with my amazing pal
@ohheybrittany
!!! see you all on the other side 🙃
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It was only a few years back that an underground idol was stabbed by a deranged fan she felt obligated to interact with. The incident left Mayu Tomita unable to continue her career as a performer.
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Yamaguchi took to her Twitter account, describing the attack in detail. Even when describing a frightening assault that left her traumatized, she apologizes to fans, stating she didn't speak out because she didn't want anyone "to hate NGT." #山口真帆
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Quite a few of the Tweets have since been deleted — but Yamaguchi revealed that one of her fellow NGT48 members provided her address and schedule to the assailants, so that they might be able to accost Yamaguchi when she arrived home. #山口真帆
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The attackers, both 25 year-old men, were arrested and (of course) have since been released. Mainstream media in Japan is just picking up the story — but NGT48 management is already playing down the incident as the act of two obsessed fans. #山口真帆
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Following the incident, Yamaguchi took an unexpected hiatus from the group — which caused fans to worry. Fans became more concerned when Yamaguchi appeared on her SHOWROOM livestream discussing an "incident" which left her deeply traumatized.
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Yamaguchi was vague during the stream, but implied that a member of her own group was responsible for the incident and that NGT48 management was refusing to intervene in the situation. The stream was cut off, supposedly by NGT48 management. #山口真帆
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@HexPositive
wAcKy abuela, muy traditional father who "only wants what's best" for his kids, gringo boyfriend/girlfriend/ spouse thrown into the thick of it, lots of hand waving and non-aggressive yelling, one of the kids is "weird," "aye, mi madre" is uttered no less than 3x per episode
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There will be a protest today at 3pm near Shibuya station against police brutality in Japan, prompted by the aggressive and unlawful detainment of a foreign resident earlier this week near Hiroo.
5月30日(土曜日)15:00にハチ公前集合で渋谷警察署への抗議デモやります。
横断幕、プラカ歓迎です。
デモのテーマに合わせたものでお願いします。
被害に遭った当事者が来るかもしれないので警察からの防衛にご協力をお願いします。
撮影自由ですが嫌な人もいるかもしれないので配慮をお��いします。
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@Karnythia
@KendraWrites
Tradwife social media has allowed wealthy white girls to think housewife life is all a 'Live Laugh Love' house filled with Instagramable children and sponcon opportunities. Little do they know that those are the top 1% of single-income families.
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An update to yesterday's thread — Yamaguchi Maho appeared onstage at an NGT48 show last night, where she profusely apologized to fans for speaking out about her assault. #山口真帆
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Are LDR fans even old enough to remember how she was marketed to the world early on in her career? She was an industry plant, promoted to blogs as some sort of “undiscovered” and “underground” nobody. Then she laughed it away with the “persona” excuse.
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Some dude just deliberately punched me in the crotch in the デパ地下. Like, very pointedly moved into my path, made a fist and went straight for it.
I know this happens on the regular in Japan, but it’s the first time it happened to me, and I just...froze. 😡
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We all know she’s still salty about the NPR thing, hence the shade towards “female music writers” — but call out the actual people hurting you, honey! Leave WOC artists out of it. They’re not the ones bringing you down. Your sour grapes are the vibe killer here.
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These are the owners of Chi Chi’s, an insanely popular Deadhead ephemera and Native American jewlery store in Tokyo. Their original shop is in Setagaya, but they opened another in Harajuku pre-pandemic since their clientele is made up of a lot of foreign tourists.
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NGT's management released a statement on their website, which (unsurprisingly) deflects the blame away from their inability to protect their performers and onto the victim and the attackers. I'll try to summarize. #山口真帆
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@alyssaharad
American in Japan here. There is no sick leave here, either. It's starting to become a problem. People are being told to stay home, but won't get paid.
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I honestly think I could fly to LA, quarantine, get vaccinated, get tested, fly back to Tokyo and quarantine again faster than a vaccine will be approved in Japan.
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@modernistwitch
It’s also like everyone conveniently forgot AIDS killed off huge swaths of young men and women — many of whom were on the fringes of society — well into the 90s
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Now sis wants to roll all that back and say nothing was exaggerated and everything is her true, authentic self? While throwing other women under the bus to whine about how her self-marketed “fantasies” and “characters” were interpreted? Honey, you can’t have it both ways!
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Sure, you can get a cheap house in Japan…
- if you agree to live in an inaka town with shrinking populations, few municipal services and even fewer job opportunities
- are a Japanese citizen (or, in some cases, married to one) under a certain age (sometimes need kids, too)
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