Owning a car in Japan

There was an interesting article about "the cost of owning a car in Japan," so I would like to introduce it by translating it in English.

Let's say you are buying the 200 mil. yen car by 60 months loan.
The monthly payment is 3.5 mil.
Having parking space costs about 1 mil. yen per month. (But if it's in and around the major cities, it costs at least 3 mil. yen per month.)
Vehicle inspection fee is about 7.5 mil yen per year, so it's about 6,250 yen per month.
Car insurance costs about 5 mil. yen per year; that's 4,200 yen per month.
Vehicle tax is about 34,500 yen per year or 2,875 yen per month.
Plus maintenance cost such as, changing engine oil and tires, also gasoline, toll fee, so on - the average cost for them is 176,000 yen per year or 14,700 yen per month.

Total: 73,025 yen per month.

Say you ride taxi for 1,500 yen per time.
For 73,025 yen, you can ride taxi for about 48 times (and/or bus and/or train.)

Well. That could be something you may want to reconsider to save your budget.

Reference:
年間マイカー維持費はタクシー初乗り1100回分との試算
http://www.news-postseven.com/archives/20101203_7086.html

Don't Drive and INGRESS

INGRESS is an interesting smartphone game and I have been playing months now. What is INGRESS? Here's a wiki. Ingress (game) via Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingress_(game) Players have to move around their towns for this game, so some players walk, another players use their bikes, and others drive. But you have to be very careful when you play this game and drive your car at the same time. When you get caught by watching smartphone while your are driving, you will get 1 penalty point on your driver's license and also the ticket cost you 6,000 yen. How do I know about it?

[PolitiC@Nippon] Ryukougo Taisho 2016: Japan’s Most Vogue Words of the Year

Ryukougo Taisho is one of the unique events of Japan. In the end of the year, they choose the buzzing words that everyone is using them in common during the year from TV shows, dramas, news, so on. (Sometime, it's not really used in common, but they pick those words anyway.) Last year, they chose some words from from politic, such as Abe Seiji wo Yurasanai (or "We won't tolerate Abe's politics") SEALDs, the "youth (well, there are some young folks but mostly old folks in their 60s and 70s) group" going against to Abe's politics) and so on. Ref: [Ryukougo Taisho 2015: Japan's Most Vogue Words of the Year] http://www.mtv81.com/features/specials/ryukougo-taisho-2015-japans-most-vogue-words-of-the-year/ This year, one of the words they choose is:

Blogs and AdSense (2)

Blogs and AdSense http://itoshunsuke.blogspot.jp/2015/07/blogs-and-adsense.html When I see my Adsense page today, I see some numbers!! *Yay* Last time I open this page after years about 10 days ago, I found that I had made only 78 yen, and other numbers on the list were zero yen. But now, I see "+224 yen!!" This is GOOD. I will donate whatever I make from my blogs to the city of Miyako. Then, hopefully the city of Miyako will let people know by saying "The blogger, Ito Shunsuke, from Miyako has donated 10,000 yen!!" on city paper. So, I will get more traffic, and it will make even more money. Then, I probably can donate 100,000 yen next year, and 1,000,000 yen for the following year, so on. When it reach to 10,000,000 yen, I will say *LOL*

Ito Shunsuke

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