You would think so, but there sure are a lot of counterexamples to say otherwise.

That’s a really wonderful story!  I’m glad the experience turned out to be so memorable.

Apparently the team has visited the cave many times and was just caught unaware when the cave suddenly flooded due to heavy rain.

Nah, I got a pair of math degrees, doing science and not quants but doing well for myself. He’ll do alright doing what he loves.

America-mura is not really an expat place, and it’s not all that American. Honestly the whole Nanba/Shinsaibashi/Nippombashi area seems to be like 50% foreign tourists these days anyway.

Yes, I remember reading earlier that they were charging an hourly fee to play.  Can’t find the link right now.

Hannity LOVES the poors!  He finds them tasty!

And your evidence for this being a miscarriage of justice is....?  I’ll agree it certainly COULD be but there’s no compelling (heck, even not compelling) evidence to suggest he did not do this, only his word.  So why go to bat on this particular case, of the millions of people who have been convicted of a crime?

For my counterpoint, let me present 42-year old Japanese pro baseball player Kazuya Fukuura.

Well, there’s still a hell of a lot of pressure to take that overtime if you want to or not, depending on company/situation. But yeah, I was a bit shocked first time I heard that it’s possible to get paid overtime as a salaried worker, though.

Maybe.  Expats outside of finance don’t really seem to work a lot of long hours, at least not more than they would in the US.

I’m talking salaried workers.  I don’t know of many salaried jobs that get paid overtime in the US (any?) but most do in Japan.

There are good jobs and bad jobs in Japan! Most are perfectly fine with good benefits and good work-life balance.

You’d be shocked at how many people in Japan do nothing all day in the office.

I regularly had to work 100+ hours a WEEK at my old job in the US (it was field work, and paid overtime).  It was actually 70 hours a week minimum (7 days a week work).

This overtime in Japan is usually paid, BTW.

Nonsense. I’ve worked in a Japanese office for 10+ years and US offices for 10+ years before that. Japanese offices are far better balanced than US offices. People get plenty of annual leave AND actually take it. They get company provided annual health checks, most overtime is PAID even for salaried employees.

Keisei buses as well, for points in Chiba. Very cheap.

I don’t know when you are arriving in BKK, but I’ve never waited more than 5 minutes for a taxi there, and I’ve flown in there dozens of times.  Don Mueang, yeah, that line can be terrible but BKK is usually smooth.

Nah, he’s certainly renounced his US citizenship to become Japanese as the law in Japan requires. He would have both citizenships as a youth but needs to choose one as an adult. For average Taros they don’t really check but for a member of the national team they certainly do.