Tag: money

A couple days ago, I was feeling sore after hitting the gym, so I decided to swing by my favorite ...

Japan's "cashless payment wars" are taking over. (Image source.) Japan is often a puzzling place, presenting two conflicting images at ...

Want To Know How Taxes in Japan Work? I'll Tell You! Every once in a while I get random questions ...

The currency of Japan is the yen, a word that means "circle." (The Chinese yuan and Korean won both mean ...

Japan is currently experiencing a wave early retirements as dozens of teachers, police officers and other public servants move their ...

If you follow news in Japan at all, you might have seen that Prime Minister Abe has announced a target ...

If you walk around San Diego and happen to see some Japanese yen coins on the ground, I might have ...

For me, one of the more interesting periods of Japan's history is the Meiji Era, when the country transformed itself ...

This year is the 100th year of the birth of Osamu Dazai, one of the major Japanese writers of the ...

I got a question about how taxes work in Japan the other day from a Twitter follower, so I thought ...

There's a wacky trick that Japanese sometimes do with money: fold a 1000 yen bill so that Hideyo Noguchi, the ...

The recession continues to take its toll here, with the export-centric Japanese economy shrinking at an annualized rate of 12.7% ...

Japan is an extremely cash-based society. Although credit cards have gotten more popular with consumers over the past couple of ...

Because I only visit the U.S. once or twice a year, I'm always noticing things I might not otherwise. It's ...