Your random bit of trivia for today: Savings accounts and checking accounts both exist in Japan; a natural person possessing checking weird.
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This is contrary to the expectations for America, and has resulted in banks/CPAs/accountants wondering "How on earth do you have checking?!"
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"You write checks!" "No, of course not." "Because no person writes checks." "Oh no because I'm a millenial. Plenty still write checks."
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"But how did you pass the required bank character investigation for a checkbook?" "By not dying in the middle of signing my name for it."
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Another fun fact: checks are more analogous to wires here, largely used to settle Really Big And Important Transactions.
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Cash, bank transfers (furikomi/furikae), direct bank debits, credit cards, other. (Probably in rough order of use, actually.)
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