Jenner Paulino 🎌

Moved back to Japan 🇯🇵 Opinions on life in Japan, business, culture, & raising a family here.

アメリカ人目線で日本の生活, 仕事,
文化,子育てについて発信中。

[Jenner Paulino 🎌 @ThatJapanGuy]

I spent my 20s in Japan. Then I left for the US.

After 8 years, this year I moved back — this time with my wife and son, and this time for good.

Took this watching the sun set over the city I came back for. I'm finally documenting all of it🧵#Tokyo

[Jenner Paulino 🎌 @ThatJapanGuy]

Golf shot is improving one day at a time ⛳️

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@Ryo_Saeba_3 Tokyo is recruiting public servants. Osaka is casting the next Yakuza game 😂

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@jake_j_jung That’s next level flooding

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Wonder how many were legit businesses

[The Japan Times @japantimes]

Nearly 1,000 foreign residents of Japan with business manager visas left the country in the first half of 2026 — about four times that of the same period last year — after stricter visa rules took effect last October. https://t.co/76rPLKcxaR

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📍Chiwata Station - Nagasaki

[Jenner Paulino 🎌 @ThatJapanGuy]

One of my favorite things about Tokyo is how tradition and modernity just coexist.

Takeshita Street is one of the busiest commercial streets in the city, yet just a block away you’ll find quiet shrines tucked between it all.

That contrast never gets old.

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Tokyo from the sky is breathtaking 🇯🇵

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@learning_yohei Kotaro lives alone is great

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Japan's long-term interest rate just crossed 3%, the highest since 1996. For most of my life this was the country where borrowing money was basically free.

That is starting to change. The Bank of Japan held rates near zero for decades to fight the opposite problem: prices that refused to rise. Now prices are rising, the yen is sitting at a 40-year low, and rates are climbing with them.

I have a small stake in this one. We bought a place here in June, financed at rates my family back in the US wouldn't believe. I might have caught the last cheap year.

And if you're watching Japan from abroad: the "Japan is cheap" trade that's been pulling in tourists and foreign buyers runs on near-zero money and a weak yen. Both are moving now.

[Bloomberg @business]

Japan’s auction of 10-year government bonds on Tuesday will test demand for this key maturity as yields approach the milestone of 3% and investors position for an interest rate hike from the central bank https://t.co/aeHidhn52t

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Slowly but surely getting back into the swing of studying Japanese.

N3 books are back out. Time to see how much my brain actually remembers 😂🇯🇵

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@japan_nobunaga Only in Japan does the vending machine have better disaster preparedness than most governments.

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@Ryo_Saeba_3 This is amazing!

[KUNOICHI 🇯🇵🌸_可愛くノ一 @hokkori_buzz]

Japan. One of the most beautiful and quietest festivals begins tonight.

📍 Owara Kaze no Bon in Yatsuo, Toyama

Lantern light flickering over the stone streets, the haunting sound of the kokyu like a quiet sob, and dancers hiding their faces beneath deeply lowered straw hats.

For just three nights, it feels like a dream announcing the arrival of autumn.

[Jenner Paulino 🎌 @ThatJapanGuy]

Living in Tokyo again, what stands out to me is how little it feels like a city of nearly 40 million people. The infrastructure is incredible, but that alone doesn’t explain it. The city works because most people understand that their actions affect everyone around them.

You’re generally free to live how you want, but there’s also an expectation that you won’t make your behavior someone else’s problem. That balance between personal freedom and social responsibility is one of the things Tokyo gets right.

[Kilian Muster 🍺🧐 @KilianMuster]

Many people cite GDP to show off which country is "the richest" or use GDP per capita to show off who is more productive. I find it more interesting to look at what people end up OWNING and what they CAN BUY for that money.

As long as you calculate everything in US$ and don't adjust for purchasing power it doesn't mean anything. Yes, US salaries are often double that of Japan, but then real estate or even food prices are easily 3-5 times as high. So here's the top 30 of MEDIAN* NET WEALTH per adult ADJUSTED FOR PURCHASING POWER.

The US being way down is not surprising considering that people are notoriously indebted all the time, and buy everything on credit, but it also shows how litte their already small savings can get them.

*Median is more realistic than average here, because in the US the high number of billionaires would actually skew the results upwards, not reflecting reality very well.

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@deeLaw @godzicode @hanaamurakami Ok 👍

[Japan Station @JPNStation]

Atre Nakano will open on December 9, bringing 73 shops, restaurants and services to a new station building directly connected to JR Nakano Station’s new ticket gate. 🚉✨

The new shopping center will occupy the second through fourth floors plus rooftop Grill Pia, an outdoor BBQ and beer garden. 🍔🍺 Tenants include Seijo Ishii, Hands, Yurindo, Francfranc, 3COINS+plus and Starbucks, alongside numerous restaurants, food shops and specialty stores.

Atre Nakano forms part of the major redevelopment underway around Nakano Station, adding a substantial new shopping and dining destination directly integrated with the station.

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第67回東京高円寺阿波おどり、終了しました！✨

今年は8/30、中央演舞場の桟敷席で56連の踊りを堪能😊

開始・終了のカウン���ダウンをぜひご覧ください！

中央演舞場で踊った全56連を動画に収めたので、少しずつ投稿していきます

よかったらフォローよろしくお願いします🤲

#高円寺阿波おどり

[サカシタ @Sakashitagram_T]

浅草は早朝が良い理由

[Jenner Paulino 🎌 @ThatJapanGuy]

この連、熱量がすごかった🔥