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(Edit :I'm just saying he's most likely Japanese and he's like 60 yrs old and we looked like tourists) There were a lot of people, me and my cousin were just walking towards the 3D cat building and trying to pass the crowd and I suddenly felt a hard hit on my back. He walked past me quickly and ghost off, what a fucking dick😂

I’m a foreign student living in Tokyo for about 3 years now, and I’m currently back in the US on vacation. I won’t be returning to Japan until August 31st.

Before I left, I allowed a friend who I go to school with stay at my apartment temporarily, as she apparently had no where else to go. She is also a foreign national. She told me she would only be staying for a short period (maximum one week) and agreed to pay me for that time, but I’ve since found out that she has been staying there for approximately 3 weeks. The biggest issue is that she has continually lied to me about how long she has actually been staying there and is refusing to pay.

She has not had any mail sent to the apartment, as far as I know, and she has not officially registered the apartment as her residence. However, she does currently have access to the apartment.

I have messages documenting our conversations and the things she has told me, including messages about how long she intended to stay and the money situation . But my biggest concern is that I’m currently outside Japan and cannot physically return to my apartment until August 31st.

What are my options? Can I contact the police or my school from overseas or have someone contact the police/school on my behalf? If she refuses to leave, can the police remove her? Is there a way to recover the money she owes me??

This is just the short version, BTW. The full story goes even deeper but right now I just need her OUT. I sent an informal demand via text, sent a friend to talk to her, but theres only so much I can do from here.

Any advice from people familiar with Japanese tenancy/property law would be appreciated. Kindness is also appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

UPDATE: Successfully removed 💪. Had a friend go and take the key back. Also was not subletting, she was squatting. Thanks for all the advice!

UPDATE 2: I found out yesterday that she was smoking weed in the apartment, huge implications if caught with possession. I originally gave her my spare key but a different friend kicked her out and got it back. I’ll request a lock change when I arrive back in case she made another copy. Cops are not involved (yet) but were used as leverage to remove her. Money was exchanged for damages, so I understand it may fall under illegal subletting at this point.

I’m pretty much just hoping and praying that this is the end and I don’t fall out of good graces with my landlord. Thanks again.

This is chilling:

> During her ordeal, the woman told police she saw several other girls at the fraud bases whom she recognized from the Toyoko area.

For context, an estimated 230,000 people are held against their will in scam centers across Asia, forced to scam people online: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scam_center

(edit: sorry for typo in the title)

A 12-year-old British girl who had gone missing in Tokyo while traveling in Japan was found safe on the 15th.

The girl, a British national, had come to Japan on a family trip.

According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, she left her accommodation in Tokyo alone on the night of the 13th and was later reported missing. Police searched for her and issued a public appeal for information. At around 8 p.m. on the 15th, she went to a police box in Yokohama by herself and was taken into protective custody.

The girl was not injured.

She reportedly told police that she had gone out to visit anime holy sites and had spent time at internet cafés and other places, but eventually began to miss her parents.

I've been drinking through Tokyo's specialty coffee properly for a while now. 111 coffee-focused places so far, all visited and paid for myself, each scored on five separate things instead of one number: drink, atmosphere, how it treats you alone, value, and how long you can sit before you feel it.

Splitting those apart produced an argument I'll happily defend.

  The best coffee in this city is not at the best cafes.

  Highest coffee score I've given anywhere in Tokyo is 9.8, at KURO MAME in Toranomon. Emi Fukahori, 2018 World Brewers Cup champion, no menu, four seats. Its overall score is 8.4 and it isn't in my top tier, because it's expensive, cramped, and not somewhere you stay.

  Koffee Mameya is the same story from a different angle: 9.6 on the coffee, 7.4 on atmosphere, because there is nowhere to sit. You stand at a counter and someone hands you something extraordinary.

If you want one number to rank cafes by, you want the wrong number.

  The thing nobody tells you: Wednesday is a bad day for coffee here

  Of the 29 places that scored 9.0+, five are closed on Wednesdays — iki Roastery, SCHOOL BUS, AOYAMA COFFEE ROASTER, Walnuts, and Iron Coffee. Single O Ryogoku is closed Monday and Tuesday. Tasse closes Tuesdays. Belleville closes the irst Tuesday of the month.

  The 29 that scored 9.0+ on coffee alone

  Worth planning a trip around

  ┌─────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
  │     │                                                                 │
  ├─────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
  │ 9.8 │ KURO MAME, Toranomon — counter seats need a Tabelog reservation │
  ├─────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
  │ 9.7 │ Vannelli Coffee, Kita-Aoyama — irregular holidays, check first  │
  ├─────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
  │ 9.6 │ Koffee Mameya, Jingumae — standing only                         │
  ├─────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
  │ 9.6 │ OGAWA COFFEE LABORATORY, Shimokitazawa                          │
  ├─────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
  │ 9.5 │ KOFFEE MAMEYA Kakeru, Hirano — reservation required             │
  ├─────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
  │ 9.5 │ Nadoya no Katte, Nishihara — Friday to Sunday only              │
  └─────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
  
  Nadoya being Fri–Sun catches people out constantly. It's also, on my scoring, the best cafe in Tokyo overall at 8.8. Plan around it.

  The rest, by where you'd actually be
  
  West Shibuya — VERVE Yoyogi Park (9.2), CAFE ROSTRO (9.0), YUSUAL (9.0), Fuglen (9.0). Rostro, YUSUAL and Fuglen sit
  within about 100m of each other. Fuglen turns into a cocktail bar after 18:00.

  Aoyama / Jingumae — PHILOCOFFEA (9.2), Little Darling (9.2), LATTE ART MANIA (9.1), THE ROASTERY by NOZY (9.0), KOPI
  KALYAN (9.0), %ARABICA Azabudai (9.0), Streamer Azabujuban (9.0).

  East — iki Kiyosumi-Shirakawa (9.3), SELECTION Nihonbashi (9.2, six seats), Single O Ryogoku (9.0), GLITCH Jinbocho (9.0).

  Meguro — SCHOOL BUS Aobadai (9.2), %ARABICA Nakameguro (9.0, takeout only).

  Further out — One by One Ebisu (9.3, five seats, Geisha-focused), AOYAMA COFFEE ROASTER Yanaka (9.2), VERVE NEWoMan (9.2), Walnuts Koenji (9.0), Tasse Takadanobaba (9.0), Iron Coffee Gotokuji (9.0), Belleville Shimokitazawa (9.0).

  Practical things worth knowing

  - AOYAMA COFFEE ROASTER in Yanaka is the value pick of the entire list. 9.2 on coffee at ¥ prices, run single-handed. Cash and QR only, no cards.
  - Walnuts in Koenji is open until midnight on Fridays and Saturdays. Almost nothing else at this level is.
  - SELECTION has six seats. One by One has five. Go alone or go early.
  - %ARABICA Nakameguro is takeout only. No seating at all, despite the river location suggesting otherwise.
  - KURO MAME and Vannelli are ¥¥¥ and worth it once. Vannelli's Geisha was ¥5,000. I'd do it again; I wouldn't do it monthly.

  What am I missing
  
  Genuinely asking. 111 is a lot but this city is bottomless, and I know my coverage is thin north and east of the centre.
  If there's somewhere you'd put above any of these I'd rather hear it than keep being wrong about it.

Hi! Saw a couple of threads about some options, just wondering if anyone’s been to anywhere new they’d recommend for ss rings? Pretty open to all designs!

Hi all. Just looking to see if there is much I can do in this case.

I signed a lease on an apartment while abroad (I know, I know... I didn't want to a definitely regret it now but I needed a place to move in to right away when I arrived for personal/med reasons. What a headache...)

I was warned there was an odor around my apartment. I asked a lot lf questions but was told that it was a faint smell that was "like chicken feed." So having smelled similar before and after asking questions about the kind of smell I signed.

What I wasn't told was that there were warnings at the train station about this offensive odor. It doesn't smell like chicken feed, but hot garbage. It triggers my migraines like crazy and (despite being told that no it wouldn't) gets inside the rental even with all doors and windows closed.

Its some scummy realestate company of course... I was just wondering of there's much I can do legally since there is no way I can live here for an entire year.

I'm probably sunk and will have to cancel and pay the fees, but I feel like them saying it was faint and smelled like chicken feed was a bald faced lie and it just sucks if they can get away with it legally.

Thanks for any insight you might have.

edit: Its Yahiro. Thanks for the ideas. Obviously I'm not a legal wizard so its just about if their discrepancy differs enough from what they told me to be legally reprehensible.

The first ones that comes to mind for me are anything by Qendresa and for some reason the Weeknd who I don't even listen to that often. All genres are welcome

I'm considering going there. I'm worried it will be in large portion populated by a bunch of weebs/passport bros. It has a 59% graduation rate which leads me to believe a lot of people don't take the academics seriously.

Is it actually a good school for someone pursuing math/CS? I probably have better options available, but it could be a worthwhile safety. I just don't want to go there if it's just an Anime week incel hole.

Hi all, occasionally, I struggle to fall asleep and go out at night for a stroll at the park near me before going back home. I ocasionally want to enter a bar for the atmosphere but looking at the menus, they often don't have non-alcohol options (I once got stared at weirdly when I asked if I can just have a coke without the whiskey and I'd pay the same price, that was 無理 but got offered tap water for free).

The other option is the gym, since I have a Chocozap subscription but after workout, I can't fall asleep at all. I would love to enter a book cafe where I can just get sparkling water and read a book at 2 am.

Any recommendations?

I assume everyone here probably wasn't born yet but if anyone has any idea what I'm referring to...

Perhaps this is in Kabukicho Tower in Shinjuku but .... there's a really big chance it totally wasn't. 😂

In 2008, my friend took me to a karaoke place. The only thing I can remember is ridiculously steep, ridiculously narrow stairways going practically vertical up .... inside a super narrow cramped building.

Everything was dark and carpeted and really nice. And to your right there were these tiny rooms where people were inside each one in small groups, doing karaoke.

And you could just keep going up, up, up and then pick a room and go inside one, and do karaoke. There wasn't creepy or weird but actually quite nice. But so cramped and small and the staircase is the thing I remember the most.

I think there were waitresses that would stop in and bring your drinks and food also. But it was kind of like a self service pick your own room type thing.