Comments on: The economic stimulus package

By: Travel Information and Tips -travel adventures

Travel Information and Tips -travel adventures — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:09:19 +0000

Travel Information and Tips -travel adventures…

What does one need when going on a trip? Travel tickets and a place to stay over night. If you haven’t made arrangements in advance, the search for a good travel lodge before the vacation period is exhausting. Tourism agents always have all sorts of pa…

By: Permanent residents to receive cash handouts from the government | Japan Probe

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:02:16 +0000

[...] about your share of the Japanese government’s huge economic stimulus package? It was previously unclear whether or not foreigners living in Japan would get any handouts as part [...]

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:11:28 +0000

You’ve taught us a lot! Thank you!

By: pwnstar

pwnstar — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 07:42:30 +0000

Stimuluis packages are really bad ideas

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:13:50 +0000

For the record, the UK government switched to the US definition of billions and trillions in 1974, they just didn’t tell anyone and left us all confused.

By: The Overthinker

The Overthinker — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:21:24 +0000

I totally agree. In fact I would seriously consider just going somewhere to take advantage of this. But pretty much limited to day trips….

By: The Overthinker

The Overthinker — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:20:06 +0000

Oh No Not Again….

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:41:26 +0000

If it’s any indication, we (my foreign wife and foreign self) received the government compensation payment for the birth of our daughter (350,000 yen) and our daughter wasn’t even born in Japan. My wife’s student visa was still valid by the time we moved back, and our daughter was already 16 months old. There was no problem at all.

So it would seem there’s a good possibility this new package would also apply to “residents” of Japan, whether permanent or temporary.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:35:09 +0000

It’s 2 Tricia McMillan.

By: ini

ini — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:38:30 +0000

hmm

and where are they getting the money from?
Out of thin air like some other majors?

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:13:15 +0000

The 1000 yen expressway thing is huge. I paid 17,000 yen for a trip from Hiroshima to Tokyo last year (not that I’d ever make that 14 hour journey again).

By: The Overthinker

The Overthinker — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:04:36 +0000

Almost certainly US trillion – even the UK is moving to that now. Probably as 1,000,000,000 is still a more common figure than 1,000,000,000,000 – for the moment. And the Americans have a word for that latter one anyway.

By: LB

LB — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 05:32:14 +0000

It mean they hand the money out to everyone they have proper records for, such as National Pension Plan records.

Oh crap…..

And is that 2 US trillion, or 2 British trillion?

By: LB

LB — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 05:28:57 +0000

They did – this past summer.

Didn’t you get yours?

By: Kenny

Kenny — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 04:52:04 +0000

I wish the American Government gave us all $550.

By: Ken Y-N

Ken Y-N — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 04:51:09 +0000

That was my very question – I’m sure gaijin will find some way to complain about it, however it works!

But, not all households pay tax due to unemployment or whatever. Actually, this is a very good question that someone ought to be chasing down!

By: James

James — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:53:05 +0000

I haven’t seen the full details, but I’m guessing that it will go to households that paid taxes.

By: The Overthinker

The Overthinker — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:49:55 +0000

I wonder if “Japanese households” means all households in Japan, or just those of Japanese citizens?