12000 Yen Cash Handout

May 18, 2009 Lester Ho 3 comments

Not too long ago, I have recieved a letter from the Japanese government which I thought it was some kind of leftover payments that I haven’t settled up after coming to Japan for almost 7 months now and I get a little bit of nervous feelings that I need to fork out alot of money again this time but after open it up the sealed letter, I looked what’s inside contents of and thank god it wasn’t a debt letter asking me to pay a large amount of Yen. ^^;;

It was actually a hand out of free 12000 Yen stimulus from the Japanese government which you can get it for free if you lived here within 6 months period of time with a proper visa and also to all the permenant resident who lived in Japan along with the local people themself can get this yummy 12000 Yen cash too. It was a supplementary income payment from the government that wants to help the people from the economic crisis. However if you happen to be aged within 18 and below or 65 and above, You get to have 20000 Yen but for the people in between that age you can only get the 12000 Yen with is no more and less from it. ^^;;

Nonetheless, They are quite a gaijin friendly where they have other languages than their only Japanese written on the explaination itself. This is also to help those people who doesn’t understand a single bit of Japanese words like the scary insane amount of Kanji characters written all over the form which is quite difficult for them to understand what and how to fill the forms out. However comrades KenLee who have posted about the Japanese Stimulus Handout in his blog that he has recieved an instruction that contents 6 languages itself but I only have 3 languages available in my area. ^^;;

I myself can read abit of Kanji which I have learned from my current language school but still I prefer english explaination more than the Japanese itself up which I thought it was a bad idea to not try and read/understand the language that I’m studying now. But then whenever I spot something that has english available, I will straight away using it to read than Japanese. ^^;;