Ramzel's past comments

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    Ramzel

    A clarification for some of you:

    The salary "hand over" is figurative, not physical. A company employee is paid into a bank account and the wife is attached to this bank account and controls it, via her position in the family. Eg. "Don't take money out of the account, I will withdraw your petty cash and give it to you, month by month".

    It is not transferred to her account.

    Posted in: Don’t like drinking with the boss? No promotion for you

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    Ramzel

    @ Poke

    No - this is a different "Universal". This is a Japanese company that runs things like pachinko, not Universal Studios.

    Posted in: FBI probe of Universal focuses on $25 mil consultant fee company now disavows

  • 0

    Ramzel

    No, Frungy. HR should be the heart of any business, but it is not. That is the problem and that is what the article is talking about.

    The usual HR department at major companies is not in any ways strategic, nor commercially minded. Currently they are merely administrative in nature.

    Posted in: HR focus shifts to talent management

  • 3

    Ramzel

    The car must have cushioned the fall. Hope he makes it okay.

    Posted in: 4-year-old boy survives fall from 12th-floor window

  • 1

    Ramzel

    @ Frungy,

    Income tax rates are up to 40% (10% income tax is for up to earnings of 3.3M) + 10% ward tax, whereas in Europe it can be 60%+. Health insurance caps out at 800,000JPY a year (about).

    Posted in: Gov't starts accepting income tax returns

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    Ramzel

    OF COURSE you paid income tax! You just did not have to pay ADDITIONAL tax.

    Semantics - I paid too much the previous year, so that year I didn't have to pay.

    Lived in Europe lately? Tax rates are 50-60% in certain countries...

    Posted in: Gov't starts accepting income tax returns

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    Ramzel

    I am self employed, so from year to year my income can vary. Japan bases the income tax on previous year's earnings in this case.

    Yes, if you pay pre-paid tax the previous year and it is too high, then you get a refund or tax adjustment.

    Example - in 2009 March, after the "Lehman Shock", I had paid more taxes than my 2008 income would warrant (based on 2007 income). Thus, I didn't have to pay any income tax.

    Posted in: Gov't starts accepting income tax returns

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    Ramzel

    Hmm seems like I have a lot of people disagreeing with me.

    My main point was that if I were to become a career criminal, I would do it for a lot more than 3.5MJPY a year (or as chinpira pointed out - without having to pay tax, 4.2M).

    Knowing professional wage averages in Japan, be it 3.5M or 4.2M, it isn't worth being a criminal for. You can make much more going legit.

    Posted in: Train pickpocket suspected of over 200 thefts

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    Ramzel

    14 Million...Wow. He was unemployed with a steady income.

    14M over 4 years isn't that good... 3.5M / year.

    Posted in: Train pickpocket suspected of over 200 thefts

  • 1

    Ramzel

    to reach $1 billion (about 750,000 euros)

    Missed a few zeros there...

    Posted in: Smoking out tobacco: The rise of the e-cig

  • 1

    Ramzel

    Some will be winners; some will be losers. That's the nature of investment. Shimomi-san obviously made money for many of his clients otherwise he wouldn't get 500 million yen/year.

    Unless he was scamming them. Investment fund managers play with other people's money and make money on the deal. If the deal/investment goes south afterwards, too bad for the investor. The investment fund already made a commission.

    Posted in: Suspect says he killed financier, wife over investment deal loss

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    Ramzel

    Quick thought: Shimomi-san was making 500,000,000JPY a year and his fund was losing money. He turns a profit and his investors lose their shirts...

    Surely Watanabe-san can't be the only one who was affected.

    Posted in: Suspect says he killed financier, wife over investment deal loss

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    Ramzel

    Itano was Japan’s TV commercial queen in 2012, appearing in ads for 21 different companies

    That's why... she's financially stable now

    Posted in: Tomomi Itano announces she is 'graduating' from AKB48

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    Ramzel

    14 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren and 13 great-great-grandchildren.

    Quite indicative of Japan's lack of re-production. 1.78 children per couple, then .52

    Posted in: Japanese man, 115, becomes world's oldest person

  • 4

    Ramzel

    What a psycho.

    Posted in: Men who use trains on dates: Please stay single

  • 2

    Ramzel

    This man pointed out that experiences, in general, can vary. Excellent point.

    I’m talking about country or city living. While I’ve been to Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Hiroshima, and Sendai on several occasions, I can’t honestly say I know the detailed ins and outs of city life, spending probably less than a total of two months in large cities. I can appreciate and navigate the city, but** I’m a country boy at heart. **

    It is blatantly obvious.

    No matter which country you are taking about, city life will always be different from country life.

    Posted in: My Japan is not your Japan

  • 3

    Ramzel

    @basroil 1,000,000JPY per year? Really?

    Posted in: Leader of gang that stole Y3 bil from elderly through scams busted

  • 8

    Ramzel

    Frungy - You sounds like an expert on this subject. Please write up a proposal and sell it to JR Group. Thanks.

    Posted in: 4-year-old girl dies after being hit by train in Kagawa

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    Ramzel

    @tairitsuiken

    Agreed 100%. Meguro is very central, but also quite relaxed. In fact, it has the lowest population of all wards.

    Posted in: Some interesting tidbits about Tokyo's 23 wards

  • 4

    Ramzel

    @jojoinjapan:

    You're in the ENTERTAINMENT news section... it is entertainment news...

    Posted in: Anne Watanabe to star in NHK's new morning drama

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