Justin Searls

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4,727 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 7 Aug

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Breaking Change · v55 - I'm a good guyjin · 7 Aug 2026 podcast

Uh if they

they might be told, Hey, you're gonna go and work on this project or in this be relocated to this building and it's

You know, we're in Tokyo, but you here in Shizuoka, you know, you gotta take the Shinkansen, which would be like a a seventy, eighty dollar round trip.

So we're not gonna pay for that every day.

So so we're instead we're gonna get you an apartment in Shizuoka and you're just gonna live there now.

And maybe it's a two year term.

But you can go home, we'll pay for you to go home like once a month.

So you you might have a family, you might have a, you know, wife and kids or whatever, and you just you don't get to see them again.

And

Culturally that's a less traumatic, less big deal here.

It it's just part there's words for it.

Like funine is that relocation, that short term relocation, where by short they can mean usually up to three years.

And uh

I'll sit down at bars because I'm always sitting at the counter when I'm by myself and I'll look to my left and look to my right and it's usually other men and I'll strike up a conversation and I'll ask 'em, Hey, why are you here?

Is this your hometown?

They're like, No, I'm I'm here g uh for work.

Um you know.

My my family's over here and I stay here.

So that's why they why they're dining alone.

And uh yeah, the word

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