(Jedi hand wave) You want to give me a stimulus bonus.

So Japan is in the midst of doing a sort of stimulus payment like the US did a short time back, though it looks like the payouts are smaller. Since I've been in Japan long enough on a valid work visa, paying into the taxes, I get a little bit of that. I got the forms in the mail a couple days ago. Included with the application form is a sheet, mostly in Japanese but with some English, showing how to correctly fill out the form. I don't know if this sheet was sent out to everyone or just the foreigners who qualified, but take a look at the names they used as sample names. I love this country.

** Small update/correction. Apparently, each city/ward was responsible for notifying their residents about the program. People living in other cities had different explanation letters, which showed different names. Taking a closer look at the sample sent with mine, it does show an address for Niseko on it. So it is apparently my city itself that rocks.