Japan’s New Business Visa Rules: The 30 Million Yen Wall Destroying Small Businesses

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  @86vtx · 4 months ago

  The worst thing about this is that the one's cheating the system are still going to be there in the end.  They will just get more creative.

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  @xiaoka · 4 months ago

  It was too easy for scam companies.  Now it will be too hard for some actually legit companies.

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  @Tmidiman · 4 months ago

  I'm 1000% for the Japanese government to get rid of fake businesses, but they seem totally unaware of what it takes to run an actual business and are slow to get rid of bad businesses.

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  @Picsou-hou-hou · 3 months ago

  Yes, thank you to Chinese. Open fake buisness, make all the familly come to Japan, using free health care and school system and abuse all allocation possible. A mother clearly said to me "The health care and education system for my kids are far better in Japan, and it's free. So why stay in China?" . All of this was paid by hard working Japanese.

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  @lanaigirl · 4 months ago

  That’s approximately $187k a year. I use to own a successful tutoring center. Successful meaning we helped a lot of students who were failing graduate, some with college scholarships.  We didn’t make nearly that much a year.

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  @peanutsthebard · 4 months ago

  scammers will just continue to lie about their business status and make fake employee records the same as now. Nothing will change aside from law abiding business having to shutter

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  @tjr-007tt · 4 months ago

  Scammers will always know how to beat the system, it’s the honest businesses who play by the rules that are going to suffer. Unfortunately it always takes a few bad apples to ruin it for everyone.

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  @DelCtrlAlt · 4 months ago

  It's not just the business owners, but the average foreigner like me,  lawfully living in Japan (steady job, no criminal history, paying insurance, tax and whatnot), have to go through unreasonable amounts of reviews and scrutiny because of a few bad apples. It's just not fair.

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  @markvakili956 · 4 months ago

  I respect countries being protective to keep things rolling. Unfortunately, a bunch of opportunists, and I don't want to call their countries safe, will take advantage of the system, abuse it in any way, evade taxes, get loans, and suddenly vanish into thin air. The laws should and must be constantly revised to eliminate the chances of them.

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  @あれくす · 2 months ago

  "The system is finally operating as intended! We have no more new applications for small businesses!" LOL

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• GU

  @gunnarlarsson3070 · 3 months ago

  lesson learned, dont open your door and dont answer your phone and you will be fine.

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  @FrostWing-k5u · 2 months ago

  That's the life of an expat. You are a guest as long as they are willing to host you, that's the reality. There's no guarantee that you can live in any country permanently as a foreigner

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