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Japan’s Financial Services Agency opens an investigation into whether or not PokéCoins fall under jurisdiction of the country’s Payment Services Act.
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Games & Tech, Japan
(game apps • Japanese apps • Japanese law • legal • money • Niantics • Pokemon • Pokémon GO)

Japanese uncle uses unique methods to give his niece some pocket money

KK Miller
Aug 20, 2016

Why just hand your loved ones money when you can send them on an adventure? The experience is priceless!

Japan
(family • funny • money • scavenger hunt • twitter • uncles)

Korean man wins lottery, family stages City Hall protest demanding he split the money

Mike
Aug 19, 2016

The 58 year-old winner’s mother and daughter say they’re entitled to part of his winnings and went as far as to stage a protest at the local city office.

Korea
(lottery • money • news)

Cute cat and its human create homemade Japanese money box with hilarious results!【Video】

Oona McGee
Aug 16, 2016

While Japanese coin box toys feature sweet cats who kindly take your change for safekeeping, real cats like this prefer to do other things with your money!

Japan
(animals • cats • coins • cute • cute pets • cute. cats • funny • Itazura Bank • Itazura Kitty • LOL • money • money case • pets • piggy bank • twitter)

Traditional Japanese holiday gets boost with an injection of cold hard cash

Master Blaster
Jun 15, 2016

A lesser-known Yamagata Prefecture custom may just be what Obon needs to stave off invasive species of the holiday kingdom like Halloween, Christmas, and Easter.

Culture, Japan
(culture • festivals • holidays • money • Obon • Obondama • otoshidama)

We bought one million yen worth of scratch lottery tickets to test the chances of winning big

Mike
Jan 2, 2016

We dropped 1 million yen (approximately US$8,300) on 5,000 Japan National Lottery scratch-off tickets to see if buying in bulk translates to bigger wins.

Japan
(experiments • gambling • lottery • money)

Japanese netizen posts mother’s 37-year-old ticket to Star Wars: “That’s worth a fortune!”

Scott Wilson
Dec 23, 2015

Is it a collector’s item or just a “collecting dust” item?

Japan
(collector's item • eBay • money • movies • rare • Star Wars)

Facial correction app makes the world’s money funny

KK Miller
Jul 22, 2015

They say the most expressive part of your face is the eyes. The rest of the face might be saying “happy times”, but if you focus on the eyes, you might see “sad times,” or vice versa.

Purikura machines, or sticker picture machines, have long had an eye enhancement option, so it only makes sense for an application on your phone to have one as well. Many of them can even be used on everyday objects that have people’s faces on them, like the money resting in your wallet. But how do the respected and historical figures on cash look when you manipulate the size of their eyes? Is some secret emotion going to be revealed? Let’s find out after the jump.

Africa, Internet, Japan, Korea, USA
(big eyes • correction • funny • money • small eyes)

Korean Officials to foreign tourists: “If you contract MERS, we’ll give you $3,000!”

Scott Wilson
Jun 17, 2015

As you may have heard, there’s an epidemic in South Korea. Since last month, more than 150 people have contracted the deadly MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) virus, among whom 19 have died.

As a result, foreign tourists in South Korea have been leaving the country in droves, and the usually-thriving tourism industry has been suffering. To try and help alleviate matters, South Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has made a somewhat unusual decision: they will pay tourists US$3,000 if they contract MERS while in South Korea.

Korea
(disease • epidemic • Korean tourism • MERS • money • tourism)

Disgruntled Japanese men share a list of common male woes before and after marriage

Krista Rogers
Apr 17, 2015

Ladies, do you think that life is all fun and games for your male counterparts? As a multitude of men would have you know, that’s certainly not always the case.

The following list chronicling all the expectations and financial burdens placed on Japanese men both before and after marriage has been circulating the web. Of course, not to rule out the many challenges that women also face, myself being a woman, perhaps it would be better to just say that life can be a real drag for everyone.

Japan
(divorce • marriage • men • money • relationships • women)

No good at saving money? You may have your mother tongue to blame for that

Meg Murphy
Feb 25, 2015

Do you find yourself living in the now, enjoying the time and money you have presently without worrying so much about putting away for the future? According to one economist, the language you speak may play a role in how well you’re able to save money. Speakers of Norwegian or Japanese, for example, are more likely to save more money per year, and have more money saved up by the time they retire, than are speakers of, say, English or Greek.

But what is it exactly that differs between these languages, and most importantly, what relation does that have to money?

Global
(languages • linguistics • money)

Honest Tokyo: 3.3 billion yen of lost cash handed in to police in 2014 alone

KK Miller
Feb 18, 2015

Imagine this. You’re at a fireworks festival with almost one million people in attendance. Everyone is scrambling for a place to sit and stampeding for the exit when it’s over. In between standing in line for a tasty treat and being dazzled by the fireworks spectacle, you realize something terrible. You’ve lost your wallet. Now what?

In Japan, you just go to the nearest police box, or koban! In 2014 alone, a stunning amount of cash and lost possessions was turned into police stations around Tokyo. In cash alone, over 3.3 billion yen was turned in. That’s a whopping US$27.8 million picked up and taken to the authorities. Could that happen anywhere else in the world?

Japan
(data • lost and found • lost property • money • society • Tokyo)

It’s a Christmas Miracle in Hong Kong! 15 million HK dollars scattered around the city【Video】

Audrey Akcasu
Dec 27, 2014

Christmas has come and gone. Presents were given, cake was eaten, HK$15 million was scattered around Hong Kong. Wait, what?

China
(Christmas • Hong Kong • miracle • money • Santa)

Flipping the kanji for “husband” upside-down reveals slightly worrying double meaning

Mike
Dec 22, 2014

The common stereotype about women among sexually frustrated, mostly parents’ basement-dwelling, men is that girls only go for attractive, rich guys, and never the nice, tender guys with warm hearts and chic fedoras.

Well, when it comes to one of those observations, anyway, there appears to be at least one cultural precedent of a diabolical hidden message that seemingly proves the stereotype right in one of the very words that defines men and women’s relationship in Japan…

Internet, Japan
(culture • funny • Japanese • kanji • language • money)

How much do Japanese girls expect their boyfriends to spend on Christmas presents? 【Poll results】

Audrey Akcasu
Dec 16, 2014

Christmas Eve in Japan is very much a date night, perhaps the biggest of the year. Couples go to see festive Christmas lights, have a nice dinner and exchange gifts; the night really matters. But about those gifts…

How much money are you planning on spending on your significant other this holiday season? How much are you expecting them to spend on you? If you’re single, how much do you think your potential darling would want to dish out for a Christmas present? A recent poll gives us a great insight into how much we should probably be spending.