Certain transactions, including mortgages, require paying a tax in Japan. You buy a stamp from the government and affix it to the document; existence of stamp proves the tax was paid. The tax on a mortgage is not small, and the clerk was worried I was mixed up in a fraud.
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It’s so fascinating reading about a modern society of people watching out for each other.
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Somewhat similar: > “There’s a lot of social trust,” a speechwriter at the culture ministry told me. “Farmers putting out their products by the roadside, and then putting a jar and saying, ‘Put money in this.’ It’s very common here, and it works.” https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-02-23/you-can-t-have-denmark-without-danes …
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I look forward to the Netflix Original Series sitcom, "
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Careful what you ask for, or soon you'll be having to fax over a copy of your mortgage that's been PGP-signed by your bank.
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this actually reminds me of the time a teller in london wouldn't sell me an oyster card because "tourists never remember how to use it [to scan out at the other end]" ………
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