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TECH 2026-10-23 Capcom ID Data Breach (11.77M Accounts): How to Tell If a "Your Data Was Leaked" Email Is Real, and What to Do Now (Oct 2026) Capcom says 11.77M CAPCOM ID records leaked worldwide, amid a wave of breaches in Japan. How to check a breach email safely and what to do next.
TECH 2026-10-22 Japan's Prime Minister Posted an "Urgent Request" Over PHP2Shell: The Night Japan Switched Off, and What to Check on Your Site On Oct 21, 2026, PHP2Shell made major Japanese services go dark overnight. The timeline, why they did it, and how to check your own PHP version.
DAILY 2026-10-21 A Post I Wrote to Sort Out My Thoughts Some thoughts that have been rolling around in my head lately, on work and money, people, and actually doing things instead of just thinking about them.
INFO 2026-10-21 Japan's Specified Residence Card: Should You Combine Your Residence Card and My Number Card? (Downsides, Fees, How to Apply) Since June 2026, foreign residents can merge their residence card and My Number Card in Japan. Downsides, fees, how to apply, and the Android My Number Card.
INFO 2026-10-16 teppay in the Suica App (From Oct 20, 2026): Can Tourists Use It? From Oct 20, 2026, the Mobile Suica app adds teppay, a code payment. How it differs from Suica and why most tourists can't use it, per the official FAQ.
INFO 2026-10-04 Updated 10-19 Japan Tax-Free Changes November 2026: Pay Full Price, Get the Tax Back After Customs (With Flowchart) From Nov 1, 2026, Japan tax-free becomes a refund system: pay full price, get the tax back after an airport customs check. Flowchart + Don Quijote example.
TECH 2026-09-24 Why Wasn't Google Indexing My Pages? The Answer Was a Double Slash in hreflang Google Search Console showed 44 pages failing to index. Most were false alarms — the real cause was one bug: a doubled slash in my hreflang tag URLs.
TECH 2026-09-20 Chrome Passwords Not Syncing to iPhone? Fix It With One Toggle Chrome passwords not syncing to your iPhone? Switch the 'Passwords and passkeys' toggle off and on to force a sync. The fix that worked for me.
DAILY 2026-09-17 In the End, It's What You Make of It Bored by daily routine, I've turned my service job into practice — observing customers and coworkers, testing languages and expressions as my own way of coping.
DAILY 2026-09-13 From Engineer to Making Drinks at Busan Tower Two weeks at Busan Tower — making drinks all day, switching between Chinese, Japanese, and English with customers, and slowly getting my social skills back.
DAILY 2026-09-05 Leaving Japan, Starting Over in Korea I quit my job in Japan and moved back to Korea this year — why I left, two idle months, and how I ended up working at Busan Tower.