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How to receive SMS verification from the U.S. after permanently returning to Japan

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  • 永久帰国
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  • 2025/10/05 19:01

I am planning to return to Japan permanently in the near future.
I will cancel my phone number in the U.S., but I would like to know if there is a safe and inexpensive way to receive SMS verification codes sent to my bank, brokerage firm, insurance company, etc. in the U.S. when I log in after returning to Japan. I am also considering Google Voice. I would also appreciate it if you could tell me the name of the bank where the SMS verification is actually being done without any problems. Thank you in advance.

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  • くらー
  • 2025/10/06 (Mon) 00:17
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In the near future, foreigners, including illegal aliens in the U.S., will no longer be able to sign up for cell phones in the U.S. If they cannot prove their status, they will be forcibly terminated and SMS verification will be impossible. This is expected to wipe out illegal aliens from developed countries.

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  • 永久帰国
  • 2025/10/06 (Mon) 21:19
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#2 0tp, thank you for your valuable advice ！.

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  • 2025/10/20 (Mon) 00:27
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If you are going to leave your bank account, etc. in the US, you might as well leave your phone without canceling it.
If you are worried about the phone bill, how about switching to a phone with a cheaper plan ？?

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#6

Security Key FIDO2 type （ about ＄ 50 ） available at Amazon and Best Buy.

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  • 2025/10/26 (Sun) 15:07
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#5 Lucy and $ 6 Playa, thanks. I will look into it.

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Community Property in California

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  • pumpkin7
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  • 2025/10/11 18:05

We have been thinking about buying a house for several years for our daughter's future school district, but since last year my husband and I have been having marital problems and have been living separately at home. We both work, but my husband does not put a dime of money into the home and does not do any of our daughter's school related or domestic matters. So I have a question and a consultation.
If we were to buy a house in our current situation, would we have to share the property with my husband ？ My husband and I do not intend to live together in the future and I will be paying the down payment and the mortgage.

Or is it better to buy a house
after the divorce?
Also, is there any way to avoid Community Property ？
I would appreciate it if you could help me.
Thank you very much.

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  • 2025/10/12 (Sun) 11:14
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I thought it would be better to get divorced early, and of course buy the house later
Prepare for divorce now.

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  • Wai
  • 2025/10/12 (Sun) 14:32
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In CA, in the event of a divorce, post-marital property is split 50/50.　

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You can put the property in your own name at the time of purchase.　If you also pay the down payment and loan from your personal assets （ premarital savings or inheritance from your parents ）, it will not be considered "community property" in the event of divorce.　Some spouses will argue over custody, so if you don't need to buy now, it is safer to rent for the time being and buy after the divorce.　

Do you have enough income to take out a loan on your own? ？
You should keep good records of the down payment and loan payments coming out of your personal account.

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  • 2025/10/13 (Mon) 19:27
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Thank you all
for your replies.
I still think we should prepare for divorce first.

#5 COM
Thank you for the detailed information.
As for whether I can get a loan on my own, in the past I would have had many options for a place to live, but now that this has happened, I will have to change my mind and find somewhere acceptable.

I have an additional question, does anyone know of a Family Law attorney that they can recommend ？
or is there anywhere (other than a lawyer) where I can get divorce advice ？
I know this is a lot, but thank you! I am sorry to keep repeating this, but thank you.

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Please note that even if you buy a house in your personal name, it is not considered your personal home in the event of divorce if you subsequently live together.
That is exactly what happened to me.

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Omochaibake, how to send a car to Japan

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  • 2025/08/16 13:18

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I would like to import back to Japan a car that I am currently driving here, but I was wondering if anyone knows the cheapest way to do this

I also looked at a website that has an article on the procedure for bringing a car from overseas to Japan .

I remember from the past that it is cheaper if the car is registered in the U.S. for more than one year ？

If anyone has any actual experience of bringing a car back home, please let me know.

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#2

It is a hassle, so we do not recommend it. It will be more economical to buy the same thing in Japan.

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  • 2025/08/31 (Sun) 10:51
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I agree with #2 tomoyan as much as possible.

First of all, due to the size/weight of the car, it will be shipped by sea.

Even so, the shipping cost will be ridiculously high, and after landing in Japan, the car has to go through vehicle inspection,

which will be troublesome and expensive. Even if the car is made in Japan, it will not be exempted from another inspection.

Also, even if the car is made in Japan, the steering wheel is on the left, which makes it difficult to drive on Japanese roads.

What is Akihabara in Kanda, I don't recommend it either.

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Not only transportation, but also testing and registration fees
Since it seems that you have to translate all the paperwork in registration by yourself
please think long and hard about whether you are willing to go through all that trouble.
No one will understand your love for your car, so
please measure your love for your car, its cost and effort by yourself!

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Epilators in Japan ？ Epilators in the U.S. ？ Epilators in the U.S. Epilators in Japan

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  • 毛毛毛
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  • 2025/05/14 17:09

I am planning to buy an epilator from Ulike, but I wonder if it is better to buy one in Japan or in the US ？

I live in the US, but every summer I go back home for 2 months and have plenty of time to spend there. I have a lot of time to spend in the U.S., so I was wondering if it would be better to buy in the U.S. ？. If I buy it in the US, I don't think I will take it with me to Japan. It is simply because it is a hassle to bring it back home again.

I don't know about voltage and such, so please let me know if you have knowledge. Thank you very much.

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  • 倍金萬
  • 2025/05/21 (Wed) 13:07
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Is this what you call an electric hair removal machine?

Alexandrite Laser hair removal machines

Please google the above English text. This would be like putting one of your shoes in a travel bag.

Maybe, the voltage difference between 100V (J) and 120V (US) can be ignored.
However, if it is a 120V product, it might work a little slower in Japan. It is a little.

I checked amazon, there are many manufacturers.

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  • 2025/05/22 (Thu) 09:54
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Sorry, I was going to delete the topic because there were no responses, but I couldn't get it to go away.

I'm thinking of buying an epilator called Ulike. I'm in disbelief because I haven't received any response to my inquiries from Ulike in either Japan or the US, but with Amazon, it's https://a.co/d/alCYhV7です.

I think it would be a good idea to buy it over here and bring it to Japan, but I really want to keep it to only children's textbooks to bring back home. I don't think there is any mention of voltage, but maybe I am just not good at reading.

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  • 2025/08/17 (Sun) 20:18
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Mao Mao,

＞ Buy it here and bring it to Japan

Voltage in Japanese homes ： 100 Volt: East Japan ： 50 hz West Japan ： 60 hz

Local ： 120 (110) Volt: 60 hz

The demonstration video on Amazon.com shows a thin white cord leading to the main unit. This means that the AC outlet (120VAC) on the wall of the room is dropped to about 12VAC (or rectified to 12VDC), a low voltage to avoid electric shock, through a small transformer. In other words, even if you pick up and hold the main unit once it is immersed in water at worst, it should be designed so that you will not get electric shock.

Therefore, it can be used with either 100 volts in Japan or 110V ～ 120V in our area without any problem. If by any chance you are electrocuted by using this device, please pass the funeral expenses on to me. :)

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What will you do with your old family albums?

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  • Martha57
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  • 2025/08/05 10:15

I have started to organize my personal belongings due to moving.
I have several thick albums of photos of distant relatives. In the old days, people did not store their photos on PCs or cell phones as we do now. The photos in the albums are discolored yellow and do not come off cleanly.
There seems to be some way to save and dispose of old photos on cell phones, but the amount is too much 、、、、
I can't just throw them in the garbage, and I am wondering what I should do. What do you all do?

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  • 2025/08/06 (Wed) 08:43
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After the photos are taken and stored on the phone, can the album be thrown away directly into a regular trash bin?

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I have removed the photos as cleanly as possible and saved them in case you want to see them. It certainly tears well.
I threw away the album because it was bulky. I put it in the trash as usual. It is the same as throwing away books.

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  • Martha57
  • 2025/08/08 (Fri) 09:47
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Thank you very much.

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  • 倍金萬
  • 2025/08/08 (Fri) 10:33
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I still have the photo album I got when I graduated from elementary school.

This was the era of black and white photos, of course, including junior high school ones. Oh no, I miss them all.

A little before the baby boom, but there were many students in one class ！

About 60 students.

All of them were born a year before the end of the war, but there were very few classrooms.

My father was drafted into the army, but his family was rich and he had a car license, which was rare in those days, or

he was assigned to the automobile corps in Japan. Thus, it seems that he was not likely to die in the open.

And I am still alive here in the farthest land. I am in good health.

Though I am getting dim.

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#8

Google PhotoScan
Mucrosoft Lens

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cryptographic assets

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  • DOGE🐕
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  • 2024/11/13 12:43

It's that quadrennial crypto asset bubble season again.
Those of you who have continued to be gullible since the last time are sure to see your assets explode.
Which crypto assets are you invested in ？?

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  • dobon
  • 2025/03/25 (Tue) 22:12
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I usually make money
I wonder what will happen with Trump
We need to be careful
Times when the dollar could be a piece of paper

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  • 2025/03/25 (Tue) 22:17
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The US is in no condition to pay its own debt
I guess they are after the assets Japan has.

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  • dobon
  • 2025/03/27 (Thu) 23:37
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What the US is most afraid of is
Japan leading Asia.

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  • 2025/03/28 (Fri) 04:21
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I see that you all are building various assets ～ I am learning a lot
What sources do you use to make informed decisions when buying stocks and cryptos ？
There is so much information on social networking sites and youtube.
Please let us know.

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  • 2025/03/28 (Fri) 04:29
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The US has to pay back a quarter of its national debt （ in the next 6 months, and the amount is so huge that it can't pay it
so it has to borrow again
so it wants to borrow again when interest rates are a little lower and Trump is doing all kinds of things to slow down the economy. is slowing down the economy by imposing tariffs and other measures. One economic analyst said.

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selling by measure

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  • 量り売り
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  • 2025/02/04 17:53

I like Tokyo Central's weighed fish ！
I sometimes buy it for dinner.
But today I wondered
if the weight of the container is subtracted ？

When I bought fish at another store once,
it was an expensive sashimi, ？ and when I weighed it,
the thing under the fish that absorbs water was included in the weight. I found that the weight of the fish included the water-absorbing material that had been pulled out from under the fish. It was heavy with water.

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  • 2025/06/21 (Sat) 08:16
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#88 By day,
Thanks for the info ！ It helps!

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  • 2025/06/21 (Sat) 13:23
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Good ！ 😃👍🏻

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#92

They had to stop because they couldn't sell matcha pudding.
I wanted to try it once.

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  • 2025/07/03 (Thu) 08:59
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I wanted to support them because they didn't sell well, but
Some days there was a lot of dark green tea powder but almost no sweet potato,
On the other hand, there was a lot of sweet potato but not much green tea powder, and somehow the taste was not consistent 😢
They didn't look good and didn't look delicious. It might have been better if they had small cups for tasting.

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  • 2025/07/03 (Thu) 12:21
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In the end, I didn't end up eating it.

No wonder they didn't have any, they didn't sell well.

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Tell me about it.

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  • Lucky
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  • 2025/07/01 16:53

I would like to put all of my old albums on a USB
I would like to know what scanner you recommend.
Thank you very much.

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I guess you all have only one "recommended scanner", so there is no way to compare them.

From my example, mine is an old ～ EPSON WF-2830 model, which is a printer/scanner model, and I use it very conveniently.

I have also scanned and put in an album the black and white photos I have been taking since I was a student long before I came here (1970). The best and oldest photos I have are taken before the end of the war (Pacific War), and I have scanned and stored them in my PC, including a photo of my father in military uniform, my mother, and me as a baby.

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A scanner, yes ～ .
I just took a picture of a picture with my phone. 😵.

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Trader Joe's

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  • yuki126
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  • 2025/02/07 19:13

I was told that the mini bags will be available for purchase on Tuesday, 2/4 in limited quantities. I got this information from a friend of a friend and I don't know how I found out about it. Anyone know how I got the information ？?

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  • 2025/05/16 (Fri) 15:11
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Some people do.
You are free to sell it for any price, some people line up early in the morning to secure it.
Bubbleheads for Oya's giveaway ＄ I sold 400 and they sold.
＄ They sell upside down prints for 180, and you can buy them if you agree
Onlookers who mess around are the lamest ！.

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  • 猫、ネコ、ねこ
  • 2025/05/16 (Fri) 21:55
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They say it's rude to promise to buy something, only to have it withdrawn in the middle of the process. If you don't want to sell, why don't you just say no?

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  • 2025/05/17 (Sat) 09:46
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Sometimes I wonder if someone else came along to buy at a higher price. I was asked by a last minute returnee if I would like to buy a set of educational books for ＄ 10, and I gladly agreed, but the next day I was told "I spilled coffee on them and threw them away". It's strange that there was so much coffee on everything, but I didn't get to see it, and I'm sure ＄ someone was buying it for more than 10.
＄ It's hard to believe that someone would abandon a bag of 3 for ＄ 15, even though they said they would buy it for ＄ 20. Even if someone says they will buy it for 20, normal adults don't dance around the difference.

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#37

In the past, a person offering a low price in Chicago did not respond at all and was raising the price behind the scenes, which led to a flood of complaints, and finally I was banned from that site.

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  • そう思う
  • 2025/06/13 (Fri) 00:58
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Then don't buy it. Or buy it yourself. It's hard to get, and you spent hours and hours in line early in the morning to get it, and you spent gasoline to get a rare item, so it has a premium.
I know someone who was able to buy one without standing in line, but he didn't say which store.
I heard there were long lines everywhere in the South Bay. There was a guy who thought they were giving them away for free. He was told by the guy at the store how much and how long the line was there 😆.

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I need rice bran.

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  • おこめ
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  • 2025/03/30 21:56

Can I get free rice husks or rice bran somewhere ？ Preferably within Orange County.

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  • 精米機
  • 2025/05/26 (Mon) 21:25
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If you are using a home rice milling machine, you can always make rice bran, so I think it would be a good idea to post
"Please give me rice bran for sale" at a private sale, etc., and then receive it at the Japanese American market .

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