Questions for fellow foreigners in Japan: - If there was a bank specifically designed for foreign residents, what would it have? - What are the most frustrating banking issues you encounter? We may invest in a bank startup, so your responses would be very helpful!
Comparison of addresses which fails if the addresses are so much as one character off, resulting in full manual rework often weeks later, despite addresses being obviously equivalent (Main St. vs Main Street)
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Character width: without a deep dive into orthography, let's say that there are two ways to write a lot of the characters in Japanese and that your bank will often want one and only one of them in each form field and raise an error if they get the other. But they're convertable.
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e.g. Name: Patrick bzzz try again Name: Patrick OK, good to go! Too bad you still have a half-width character somewhere in your address. Go find it for me, bwahaha, I enjoy human suffering because I am a computer incapable of using lookup tables.
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