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• ぽち
• 2025/01/17 (Fri) 12:02
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College Avenue near Campus is popular among students with many apartments.
The area along College Ave. to Rockridge is relatively safe.
Rockridge is a popular area with many restaurants. The address is Oakland, though.
Basically, the closer you are to Oakland and Richmond, the more careful you should be.
Roughly speaking, South Berkeley is the area following Oakland, and North Berkeley (Berkeley Hills) is a safe residential area.
UC Berkeley is positioned as Central Berkeley.
The area near San Pablo Boulevard, especially on its west side, is not recommended.
Telegraph is the main street from Central Berkeley to Oakland.
Orinda, Lafayette, and Walnut Creek are safe, upscale neighborhoods, but may be inconvenient to get to BART without a car.
If you are thinking of the El Cerrito side, the El Cerrito Plaza station is safer and more convenient.
In that case, Albany is also safe and a popular area for Japanese.
El Cerrito Del Norte is relatively safe on the El Cerrito Hills side, but you should keep in mind that it is next to Richmond.
However, I think the rent is cheaper because of that.

• nao
• 2025/01/22 (Wed) 13:47
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Thank you for the details ！
Since I don't know if I can buy a car right away, I will try to look in the Berkeley area up to around Rockridge and around North Berkeley, Albany and El Cerrito Plaza. I will also try to avoid the west side of San Pablo.
Thank you very much for your help ！ ！

• bloom
• 2024/12/11 (Wed) 01:42
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Star
I think you should contact Mitsubishi UFJ Bank directly.

I have received
from the USPS post office with a strange email address.

If you use a VPN to view Japanese websites, you may receive junk mail from Japanese sites
in Japanese.

• gin
• 2024/12/11 (Wed) 12:49
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I think it's a *fake*.
I don't think banks can terminate accounts on their own, whether they are perpetual accounts or frozen accounts, so if you have such an account, I think it is safe to contact the bank here.

• こーの字
• 2024/12/11 (Wed) 13:51
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Here is the official information
https://direct.bk.mufg.jp/info_news/smsinfo_1023/index.html

"Mitsubishi UFJ Bank will never send you an e-mail directly to the Internet Banking login screen and ask you to enter your password ・ PIN, etc. "Mitsubishi UFJ Bank will never ask you to enter your password or PIN by directing you to the Internet Banking login screen via email.
If you feel suspicious in any way, please do not click on the link in the email and delete it. "

From here, it is almost certainly spam.
You may have noticed this before entering the required information, but
you may want to check your account for unauthorized access, just to be sure.

• Star
• 2024/12/11 (Wed) 15:51
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I'm not quite sure where to call the bank, and I don't want to email them, but I don't seem to request anything by email. I certainly don't use the bank's online banking and would not have given my e-mail address to the bank. Since I don't use net banking, I am a little worried that I won't be able to check it until my next trip back to Japan. However, I think I might be able to find out if anything is wrong because sometimes my father deposits my allowance and I don't think I would be able to deposit it if it was frozen or cancelled.

• まこ
• 2025/01/20 (Mon) 20:20
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Topy

Where is the Kiosk ？
I was able to register my car easily at a machine in Safeway. I paid by credit card.
I thought renewals could not be done at a machine because they take a picture again.

• Car
• 2025/01/20 (Mon) 21:30
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Makosan
Kiosk is the machine at Safeway. So it is used for car registration ！ Sorry. I am a paper driver so I was quite ignorant. It's true that you have to go to the office to take pictures too. I completely misunderstood that there was a new system during Corona.

• AG
• mail
• 2025/01/07 (Tue) 15:10
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If your wife has a Japanese passport and the airline ticket is in her name, she should be able to enter and leave Japan with a round-trip Japanese passport ？ I don't think you need to be concerned about an American passport. However, you will need to apply for ESTA in that case.

Incidentally, the U.S. allows dual citizenship, so you can use your Japanese passport to leave Japan and your U.S. passport to enter the U.S. However, in Japan, you must choose between the two if you are over 23 years old, so if you use your Japanese passport to return home, the information about your entry to the U.S. will not be included. If you use a Japanese passport to go back to Japan, you may be suspected of various things because it will not contain information about your entry into the U.S. If your wife is over 23, I think it is safe to use a round-trip Japanese passport.
If you want to use an American passport for the round trip, I think you should change your name on the airline ticket to your maiden name. I can imagine that it will be troublesome when you check in for your flight out of Japan and when you check in for your flight back home.

• min
• mail
• 2025/01/09 (Thu) 22:01
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Your wife is
① a Japanese citizen but has acquired US citizenship
② your parents are Japanese and your wife was born in the US and has dual citizenship

the response depends on which of the above you choose.

① In the case of , as AG said, it is not allowed in Japan, so you need to choose
either one, but there is no problem if you enter and leave Japan with a Japanese passport.
Please choose in the near future.

② In the case of , my daughter and son were born in the US and are US citizens, but I am a Japanese citizen, so I have Japanese citizenship as well.

When I renew my Japanese passport, I am told to choose it softly. When I renew my Japanese passport, I am told to choose softly, but I am not forced to do so.
My daughter is married,
for example,
her current surname is (Itami)
our surname is (Haneda)
my maiden name is (Narita)
on her American passport.
And I have been to Japan without any problem. And I plan to keep my dual citizenship.

I can book flights under either name on my passport.
Both passports will be presented at the airline counter in both the US and Japan.

At customs on outbound flight
Departing Japan → Japanese passport
Arriving in Hawaii → American passport

At customs on return flight
Departing USA → No customs, airline
Arrive in Japan → Japanese passport

If you are concerned that your passport name may be different,
you may want to carry a copy of your family register with you just in case ？

<4467> I think the worst thing you can do is
apply for ESTA while you are a US citizen.
If you check
No, you are lying to the U.S. government and it will be very disadvantageous.

In the meantime, why don't you contact the airline ？?

• 妻が二重国籍
• 2025/01/16 (Thu) 04:53
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>Thank you AG and min
for your answers.
My wife's pattern was born in the US, so she is ② the one you refer to in your pattern, min.

I was worried, so I decided to apply for ESTA, but then I got stuck on the very thing you pointed out and had to suspend the application.
I will use a copy of my family register as you pointed out, since my maiden name is correct in the U.S. even if my surname has changed.
Incidentally, I also checked with the airline company, but they replied that they could not make a decision.
The response was that there should be no particular problem, but it cannot be said with certainty that there is no problem, so if you are unsure, please decide on your nationality and apply for esta and go as a Japanese. If you are worried about it, decide your nationality and apply for esta and go as a Japanese.

• min
• 2025/01/19 (Sun) 23:00
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Hi

Let me make one correction.
My maiden name is not correct for my US passport,
it means that my maiden name is not a problem.
My daughter has been married for 3 years and I was told that changing it is not a problem at the next renewal.

As long as the name on the plane ticket and either passport is the same, you can board the plane.
However, you must have both passports.

When you go through immigration in the U.S.,
both of you should proceed to the immigration counter together.
Since your wife is entering the U.S. as an American, she only needs to present her U.S. passport and no airline tickets, etc.

When leaving the U.S.,
present both passports at the airline company counter.
And at the baggage checkpoint, you will need to present your passport, but
go through with your U.S. passport.

Basically, Japanese passport for entering and leaving Japan
American passport for entering and leaving America.

I wish you a wonderful wedding, honeymoon, and trip 💒.

• もっともだね
• 2025/01/15 (Wed) 23:16
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Korea is tteok, but it is very different from Japanese rice cakes, so there is no way they make and sell Japanese rice cakes
Well, if you fry them, you might be able to make tteok like Japanese fried rice cakes.

• とんとん
• 2025/01/16 (Thu) 07:04
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We won't be able to make it this year, but for the future, it would be a good idea to purchase a rice cake pusher. It is easy and fun.

• もっともだ
• 2025/01/16 (Thu) 09:08
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Mochi pounding machine ＞ only for rice cakes, but can make a large quantity at one time
Bread machine ＞ I don't know about expensive machines, but it can make both rice cakes and bread, although you have to do the steaming process elsewhere
It is up to you which one you prefer

• お茶
• 2025/01/17 (Fri) 08:37
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I always buy mochi at Chikara Mochi, a Japanese sweets shop in Gardena.
If they have any leftovers before they close, you might be able to buy them at a discount ？
If you ask them about making fried rice cakes, they might be able to help you.

• もちもちこ
• 2025/01/19 (Sun) 07:47
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Tea-san ！ I had never heard of a Komochi shop before, and when I looked on YELP, I was even more pleased to see that they serve Komochi at a Japanese-Japanese supermarket. I love Komochi and always buy the soft ones when they are on sale, but lately I haven't seen them in the stores because of bad timing. I'm looking for white rice cakes this time, but this rice cake shop seems to have a lot of beautiful rice cakes, so I'd like to visit there. Thank you ！

• uco
• 2025/01/09 (Thu) 18:01
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Not many owners can read Japanese
so it would be faster to go to an available tenant and
contact the owner rather than asking here.

• cocobomb
• mail
• 2025/01/10 (Fri) 22:27
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I can rent an office, but what is the purpose of use ？?

• ハワイ
• 2025/01/10 (Fri) 23:45
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There is a HUB Co Working next to Mitsuwa on the Kuhio Ave side of International Market Place.
You should go there and ask them.

• yt
• 2025/01/07 (Tue) 11:14
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I can make anything I want on YouTube too.

• 素朴な疑問
• 2025/01/07 (Tue) 12:16
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You want to learn to cook, but you also want to interact directly with people and get to know them.

• drj
• 2025/01/07 (Tue) 12:44
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Yes, cooking is nice, but it's also nice to interact directly and get to know people.

• dobon
• 2025/01/11 (Sat) 23:10
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Pork feet stewed for 3 hours on a cold night

seasoned in Japanese style
delicious....

• ユーチューブ先生
• 2025/01/11 (Sat) 23:29
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Pork feet melt in 40 minutes from the time you turn on the electric pressure cooker until you are ready to eat them. I can sleep after turning it on too
I boil them with just Japanese soup stock and salt, and make the sauce more important.