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• ashitano
• 2018/10/17 (Wed) 09:10
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Double Kin Man

I think it was around 1978, too. Narita had just opened and I remember the checkpoints were strict. It was still like the farmers there and the radicals were still campaigning against it. I think it was 1971 when I flew from Haneda to the US. So you had been in the U.S. since then, too. I came as an exchange student, so I could not return to Japan easily. Of course, in the era of 1 dollar ＝ 360 yen, I had no money.

• 倍金萬
• 2018/10/19 (Fri) 12:33
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Now that floating exchange rates are the norm, it is hard to imagine what it was like in the fixed exchange rate era of US$1 ＝ 360 yen. I also saved up 360,000 yen and brought it to the U.S. $ converted to 1,000 US dollars.

My starting salary was only 27,000 yen when I joined the company 3 years before I came to the U.S. When I came to LA, gasoline prices were going up and down during the "Gas War", but I always found the cheapest place to fill up. The lowest price was 25 cents a gallon. Oh, I'm getting nostalgic again.

• ashitano
• 2018/10/21 (Sun) 08:52
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We've been in the past longer than we've been in the past, so nostalgia stories are pretty commonplace. I'll add one more thing: I once bought a gallon of gasoline for about 25 cents a gallon. I filled up a big American Buick for about $4.00. Nowadays, $4.00 will sometimes only buy you a gallon, you know. By the way, I didn't hear much Osaka or Kyoto dialect this time. Everyone speaks the standard dialect wherever they go, and what I heard more was Chinese. I would see people calling for customers in front of a restaurant. When I approached, it was in Chinese. And when I got closer, it would be Japanese. And when I left, it was Chinese again. The shopkeepers are doing their best, aren't they?

• 時差
• 2018/10/21 (Sun) 12:16
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When I used my iPhone that I bought in the U.S. during my stay in Japan, my calendar got messed up due to the time difference😱😱😱It was very difficult to keep track of my appointments and appointments.

Is there a better way ？?

• ashitano
• 2018/10/22 (Mon) 09:12
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You might want to use a different calendar app. Mine did not change the calendar content or time when it automatically changed to Japan time.