Banks Will Lock Your Account if You Use This in Japan

[@sirderpsalot]

Banking in Japan is widely terrible. Annoying how so many things need to be done in person, and many only open till 3pm during weekdays. So you literally need to take personal leave from work to visit the bank...

[@memethief4113]

And you have to take that personal leave… from a JAPANESE company, as if it wasn’t bad enough already

[@AIIIAKS-vn4co]

>Japanese work until late at night People: “Working conditions in Japan are terrible” >Japanese people close the bank at 3:00 p.m. People: “ThaTs iNConVenIEnT”.

[@NetflixForeign]

Wow even in some places like the US it is 5 and sometimes 6. Not perfect but still better. Are Credit Union's in Japan at least better?

[@MrViper5822]

​@AIIIAKS-vn4co Except I can guarantee those people working at the bank don't finish at 3PM. I wouldn't be surprised if most don't leave till well into the night time.

[@WizardWizard-l7w]

​@AIIIAKS-vn4co you are ignoring that while the bank closes for custokers at 3 it without a doubt doesnt close at that time for people working there

[@Luna0wl]

I still think Japanese code is a joke, so I'm 0% surprised with this one.

[@Murimz]

Do they code in regular languages like c#, c++, python, java, html. Or do they have a version with japanese instead of english words? Clueless.

[@StefanHanrath]

@@Murimzsome languages have utf support for tokens / variables. Here it's possible, but not necessarily common. But i believe the creator of ruby is afaik Japanese.

[@beangate]

@@Murimz they code in "English" with regular languages like you said. The only time they would ever have japanese in their code is in comments or Strings.

[@Izukachan]

​@@Murimzregular language but they f*** everything up by trying to make the frontend interface work with japanese characters. Look up half width vs full width alphanumerics and that whole nonsense. also they use old frameworks. there are still many websites in only html and css. zero javascript.

[@DamienLavizzo]

I'm a brand-new full stack developer here in Japan. Most sites here use Ruby for their backend, because...drum roll...it was developed by a Japanese developer. For the frontend they use JS, mainly, but they are woefully behind because they have to support older browsers, since in Japan there's an 'if it ain't broke don't fix it' mentality.

[@ChristopherChestnutNI]

I’m not surprised at all, I can totally imagine the bank has a compliance department who is checking against the bank’s security controls, and what has happened is a security engineer is using a (probably in-house but could be 3rd party) application like “am I unique” which uses various methods to determine how likely you are to be a legitimate human user. Then not actually tested it on all their customers, or the QA department didn’t even bother. They’ve profiled their users who are most likely Japanese people in Japan who don’t need the translate plugin and set this as the default user profile, these are “legitimate” users. You are beyond some arbitrary threshold of non-default by having the plugin installed. Qualifications, companies have tried to sell me this exact functionality to mitigate non-human actors attacking our software before. Plugin detection was one of the selling points.

[@vytah]

Auto translate in Chrome breaks tons of websites, better use Firefox with something like the Linguist addon

[@Appoxo]

I like TWP. Let's me choose what service I want

[@BagoPorkRinds]

What breaks the webpage is trying to auto-translate the whole page at once. Instead use Firefox with the Google Translate extension which works well. Just highlight the text, right-click and a window will pop-up with the translation in English. Sometimes it doesn't work so you have go the old way by opening to the Google Translate webpage in another tab and then paste the copied text there. Translation in Vivaldi is built into the browser. Just open the translation side panel and the highlighted text will be automatically translated. If not then just copy & paste.

[@TetankaBull]

In Australia, for transactions over A$200 a PIN or biometric authentication is required.

[@sarcasticdragon8673]

I thought it was 100$?

[@theneekofficial8829]

@@sarcasticdragon8673depends on the bank and the settings you’ve setup

[@Mordewolt]

@@sarcasticdragon8673 yeah, that comes out as around 100 real dollars

[@DizzyScorpia]

@@sarcasticdragon8673 depends on which bank. I know that they’ve been steadily increasing the limits for Westpac and their subsidiaries as a full tank of fuel can easily net over $100 (closer to $150 on the coast). Not to mention the growing price of groceries.

[@BeastOrGod]

Heard you need like a statement for taking money out of the bank. Like, what your intentions are for those money taken.

[@worawatli8952]

I live in Thailand, and contactless is everywhere now, even Google Pay NFC credit card is supported. No need to carry a card anymore, everyone and even street vendor accept mobile bank payment.

[@Hyper88]

Joey makes it sound like getting massive muscles is easy. After over 10 years I can assure you it's an insane grind year after year to add on real muscle mass.

[@Xzilerating]

It’s the common opinion for those that’s never seen the insides of a gym or equivalent

[@jamestk656]

I fight to roll my eyes whenever a girl tells me she doesn't work out because she doesn't want to get big muscles as if you can get them purely by accident. I show them pictures of Kim Dam-bi and Shim Euddeum who put in a lot more work than they ever will yet still look slim and they counter me by showing pictures of women on steroids working as pro wrestlers. 🙄

[@187Wretched]

He does CrossFit so I don’t think he has to worry about getting big lol. But yeah I find it amusing when people say things like that. The amount of nutrition, consistency and intensity it takes to put on good mass is unrealistic for the average gym goer who might not even have the genetics for it

[@sonic064]

​@@187WretchedHe will have to worry if his joins still work after a year. Crossfit is the worst way to train, a lot of bad form and circus tricks.

[@SheikChannel5]

At the start you will get a decent size with muscles, but the real challenge is when. your gains almost slows down and plateaus and you will get minuscule changes unless you use steroids tbh

[@hkngi124]

Contactless limit is the same in most banks in Europe. Around 30-50 bucks from my experience

[@wasteman3259]

In uk I swear there’s no limit. I spent 750£ once

[@kimrkarl]

Mine is much higher, atleast 1000euro, only need to unlock my phone. On the tap on the card its about 50euro.

[@Léon-x3c]

No limit here. Past a certain amount it’ll ask for your 6 digit code though

[@WhaleCostume]

@@wasteman3259The UK limit is only applied on the physical card. If you pay via google pay/apple pay then there is no limit.

[@purplelord8531]

that's kind of smart tbh

[@daniegamin]

Garnt has ADHD right? Its not being lazy it's his brain chemistry keeping him from changing banks

[@aaronball4700]

It could possibly be an anti fraud measure to prevent users outside of Japan from stealing funds from bank accounts they’ve compromised.

[@PhilippSeven]

It’s stupid af

[@KEIO-qd1zx]

Idk man. It would rather make sense to check the country from which the request is sent. Maybe the were using a VPN, or maybe the bank devs were stupid af

[@kaPaURL]

​@@PhilippSevennot stupid. If you downloaded a malicious chrome extension (dark mode, volume control...) it could read your bank details. For a random Japanese family with kids on the computer it could have saved 100s of accounts.

[@MatsukawaZaraki]

We need the name of the GOOD bank PLEASE!!!!!!!

[@ImEagleAnime]

probably sony

[@SF7PAKISTAN]

@@ImEagleAnime SONY HAS A BANK?

[@cguser]

We really need to know the name of the bank, if its actually that good like Connor said: 1. Online Sign Up 2. English website 3. English App No machine translation No issues what so ever I sign up right now. Jesus, it is not a sponsor. I know you, trash taste don't say it but, for the love of god can some please tell us.

[@SF7PAKISTAN]

@@cguser other people are saying that it might be Sony Bank

[@cguser]

@@SF7PAKISTAN thank you, it seems true. their website has native english page.

[@Nameless.Individual]

Highly confident this may be an issue relating to the content language/locale HTTP headers and Javascript attributes passed on by your web browser. This is utterly irrelevant at this point, but I'd be curious to see if this issue is resolved by changing the web browser's settings to solely Japanese.

[@Folsomdsf2]

it's cause they're sharing the data with the cloud version of translate. They need to use local translation. it's that simple fyi.

[@Izukachan]

​@@Folsomdsf2saying its simple is very inconsiderate given that the average person doesnt even know how browser cookies work

[@tborsje]

It seems to really bug anything involving dates or a calendar. Often when I use Google Translate on any booking website (JP > Eng), the dates all seem to become NaN. For example, if I was booking something on 1 July 2024, the actual data （２０２４年７月１日) would be translated to English correctly in my browser, but if I clicked 'next' / 'complete booking', the website will quickly return an error stating that you cannot book on NaN/NaN/NaN.

[@Folsomdsf2]

@@Izukachan .... bro, it has /nothing/ to do with that. That's not the ACTUAL problem. The fact you didn't even understand that.. holy shit man. Don't talk on the subject, walk away.

[@ammariskandar2116]

​@@Folsomdsf2way to go buddy, you completely misunderstood his reply. he never said it was a cookie issue. he is saying that if people dont even understand how cookies work despite clicking "accept" on every website asking for cookie consent, you expect people to understand the difference between a cloud service and a local service and how they break JS apps? Youre trying to tell the guy not to comment when your comprehension of english is subpar 😂 English must not be your native language, keep studying buddy.

[@ManiacX1999]

The 1¥ is more of a symobilic thing they have apparently in relation to their recovery from ww2 and... I get it, but it's not going anywhere and I'm content with that

[@francesT5877]

In almost all currencies the smallest denominations cost more to make than they are worth. It doesn’t matter because the higher denominations make up for that cost. You have to look at the cost of manufacturing the entire currency.

[@Beerbottles123]

Japan - Terrible Banking system Merica - Terrible Healthcare system Perfectly balanced for your misery.

[@no_justno]

One is a mild inconvenience other is death/disease🥰

[@Spirit_Circle]

I guess paying for your own healthcare is impossible in merica

[@Kanokey]

Fanza/Dmm breaks when you use the google translate site option.

[@jamestk656]

I understand why they wouldn't name the bad bank but I'd love to know the name of the good bank where you can open an account online and you don't even need to show up at the branch.

[@PhilippSeven]

Literally any bank in Russia. I don’t understand why Japan is so slow in banking services

[@neverletmego6414]

what's the name of the bank? i know they can't say its name because they could get sued in Japan for criticizing a company even if true. So just asking here for everyone's own benefit.

[@JoshxDarnxIt]

As an American, the idea of the bank telling you that there's a limit to how much money you can spend is absolutely baffling. The limit is the amount of money you have. WTF are you talking about

[@Jellicent782]

The limit they're talking about is for contactless payment, so items over a certain amount will make you insert your card to pay. Even in the US each bank has its own limit for contactless payments.

[@ladydilandau]

We have limits... They're just not 30 dollars lol

[@Milla4life2]

It’s very much a thing in America too, but I guess you’ve never had that much to spend, you wouldn’t know.

[@SwiftbladeOfTheLeaf]

@@Jellicent782 contactless payments are regular in the uk too, but i know at least one japanese bank that genuinely does limit the amount of money you can spend in ALL transactions in a 24 hour period, which i suspect the Boys mean. e.g. you have a renumeration limit to the equiv of $250. you withdraw about $50 in cash to spend in the day, and you do a bank transfer of $200 to your account at another bank. you can withdraw/use no more money until tomorrow. with the small exception of the bank transfer costing you $1, and an extra $1.50 if it's an atm outside the bank/with the wrong convenience store brand/outside business hours. (à la that one Dogen vid) you can get out of this if you make an application to raise/remove the limit, which takes multiple days and probably has to be submitted in person. hence why Connor says he switched banks. i think he's also mentioned (in an own channel vid) his bank stopping him from buying a camera once because it was over the limit.

[@requiemforameme1]

As an American, I wish we’d pass a federal law normalizing contactless payment limits (since it’s currently all over the damn place). UK kinda recently passed a law limiting it to £100. It’s _generally_ $100. But it can get confusing depending on vendor and your bank. Especially if you say, buy a decent amount of stuff at a street fair or rounds at a club.

[@stcsuntzucreed]

Here in Croatia I think they removed the limit on contactless(or I haven't encountered it), but for purchases above 40 euros you need to enter your pin if you're using the card instead of your phone...

[@tigershirew7409]

Interesting. In Canada the limit for contactless (or "Tap" as we say) is set by the business you are going to (some have their set for say $50, but for Costco it's $200) and then anything over you have to enter your PIN. This is the same for credit cards as for your debit or banking card. Also, I agree with the one Yen thing - in Canada we stopped producing the penny because it was the same, it cost more to make the pennies then they were worth. If you go to pay cash at a business, they round your purchase to the nearest 5 cent amount (ie one or two pennies rounds down, 3 or 4 pennies rounds up). Otherwise the price is just the price.

[@viciousoz4188]

As an American, LIMIT ON CONTACTLESS PAYMENTS??

[@PhilippSeven]

As Russian: there is not contact less payments??

[@PhilippSeven]

I was paying with my face for 2 years…

[@WhaleCostume]

Limit is for the physical card incase someone steals your card. If on your phone it’s limitless because you need to unlock the phone.

[@longiusaescius2537]

@WhaleCostume suisei

[@StriderVM]

If this is really true, then webpage practices in Japan must be decades old outdated. Back in the 1990's to 2000's. Using the equivalent of "inspect element" and editing it can do allow people to do bad stuff like getting "free stuff" from online sellers (Such as sim load or internet time) or worse, edit your credentials to allow unauthorized things, but that was back in the HTML/Javascript days. And really bad webmaking practices. But then again, they have measures that detect if a webpage is altered externally. Wow. Japan. Never change.

[@emilivar4558]

In Norway, contactless pay without the use of your pin is like 45 pounds, or 500 Nok, but tapping the card can be used on any amount as long as you put in the pin. Norway is also almost completly physically cashless. Its all card. Very rarley will someone ever use physical cash here.

[@hesperonis]

When i lived in Switzerland, i just memorized the locations of the buttons I needed to do things. No idea what it said, and thankfully they never changed the layout so it worked out!

[@uuu12343]

As a software engineer and cybersecurity specialist, i'm certain this is just shit applications that werent bug tested and rushed Then the "temporary" implementations became permanent and broke something

[@RyokoPanic]

Can confirm, like 98% of websites.

[@pax6833]

It's wild to me that Japan has a 1yen which is even less valuable than the penny and they still have it lol. Also, the amount of things that say "accepts cash except 1 yen" is nuts for a country as cash crazy as Japan.

[@calen3152]

It *is* a penny. Japan doesn't consider their currency only in relation to another country's currency. Americans wouldn't say "it's wild that pennies still exist when they are worth less than a 1p (GBP) coin." And even though this is a separate unrelated point to the one I'm trying to make: the yen being down so far globally is a recent thing. Just 3 years ago, it was essentially equal to USD. And there have also been times that it was worth more than USD. It's true that things like vending machines don't accept 1 yen coins, but most vending machines in the US don't accept pennies either, and US Businesses also have a legal right to refuse them if they wish. At least in japan many registers are automated and I can just dump a random handful of coins in and get higher denomination coins back.

[@Hungarian_subtext]

@@calen3152 The US penny is worth less than the value of metals in it which is abnormal for a currency; so it's good basis for comparison.

[@calen3152]

​ @Hungarian_subtext If the topic is: "Should we get rid of pennies/penny equivalents", then that's an entirely separate matter from what I was responding to (one which I think many people would be for). I am responding to the idea that it's wild that Japan has a 1yen coin when it's "even less valuable than the penny". I'm just saying that 1 yen is a penny in Japan. Japanese aren't paying 1100 yen for Ramen and thinking of it as $7 USD. It's the same 1100 yen it has always been. Aside from standard inflation, which every country has been struggling with, you only feel that difference when buying goods from countries with a stronger currency.

[@atwitchyferret]

When I was there, one of the hotels charged me extra and told me to put that amount in a bag. I paid in the 1 and 5 yen coins I had been saving up from cash purchases because that's what you do in the Kanto region. I bet the hotel owner didn't like me.

[@calen3152]

@@atwitchyferret Obviously I couldn't say for sure, but it sounds like this may have been the Accomodation Tax, which hotels are required to charge by the city. That money doesn't go to the hotel, it goes to the government to fund tourism development and tourist resources.

[@RetroGenetic]

Here in Finland the limit is 50€, and now we can pay over but need to enter pin EXCEPT with google pay you can bypass that

[@spencjon4822]

Damn, in the US we went from no chip&pin to contactless phone with no limit. But then, the bank has to refund you if someone fraudulently uses your card. It's super easy.

[@mnplumberman]

I don't think any of my contactless ever had a limit in the USA. Maybe I could have set one, but I've for sure used it for a couple hundred dollars. on Credit Cards and Debit.

[@calvinsperberg3714]

isnt Google translate a client side app? How would the server side know you translated the text on their page? Are you maybe using a VPN into a different country than a Japanese IP and forgetting to set it back to Japan when accessing a sensitive site like a banking site? A lot of banking , credit card, money lending sites, especially if they do not have an international side will block and or red flag the system if trying to access from a different location. I am just throwing that out there it is highly unlikely that a translation app would cause any issue, if it did it would have to written into their coding and that would be specific and they would no for sure, not a *we think* it might be a problem, otherwise the server side would have zero clue. Im no expert but I think if this was a thing, there would be many more sites and such where this is happening and it would be a much bigger issue. Ive never had Google translate break a website as in made it no functional like on the server side. Yeah I have had it get funky on my side where things might get out of place etc , but that is highly due to poor web coding being done on the server side.

[@eatcrab9565]

It depends on a lot of thing like how tokenizations works and how the translation is inferred. Because the new translation models are essentially tuned LLMs instead of the older Machine Translation, it will miss chunks or mistranslate chunk since it is partially just guessing. Imagine if the word "next" is skipped during translation context, the hyperlink associated with the work just had nowhere to go. I've seen several Japanese website break because the translation just fucks up the hypertext somehow

[@anarchymatt]

What's funny is if you've written any frontend code at all, you should (and I say should...) know to not branch on the text contents of an element. I shudder to think who these banks hire to build their software.

[@WT83]

I kinda get why they won't say the name of the bad bank, but why on Earth won't they say the name of the good bank?

[@hypermiraclepositivegirl2415]

Is it allowed to run extensions on any bank website you guys use? That sounds like something a bank would obviously block access to

[@JohnDeBrino]

Meanwhile in America, I’ve spent thousands of dollars on a single contactless transaction buying a new computer.

[@rshad4ever]

oh yeah, the suspicious activity of being a foreigner 🤣

[@archaeopteryx981]

No. All banks should ban account access through Google Translate. If you use Google Translate to access sensitive bank information, you’re making the bank send all your personal information to Google first. It’s not secure. It’s like asking a stranger to go to the bank and initiate transactions on your behalf. Never use Google Translate to access private information.

[@God_0f_Death]

@@archaeopteryx981 That's not how Google translate api works. You are the perfect example of Misinformation and fear mongering.

[@longiusaescius2537]

True

[@Gf0rc31]

imagine having a limit on contactless sounds like a nightmare, if i need to go somewhere and i cant pay with card, well i dont go there, its that easy

[@porcorosso4330]

Sony bank guys.... At least according to people on reddit....

[@louiedoee]

damn Sony has it's own bank? That shit sounds sketchy af xD

[@porcorosso4330]

@louiedoee It is a online bank with no physical branch I think... Not 100% sure... But you can use most major convenient store ATM as their ATM... So that's convenient... Not sure what that means for bigger stuff like home loans and what not...

[@cubix626]

I'm guessing Connor is speaking about Sony bank! English, online bank, it's the most well known one!

[@neko_3851]

@@louiedoee Sony Group owns a lot of things, financial services including banks, insurance, credit ect. It's the same as Mitsubishi Group, who owns Tokyo Bank, and other keiretsu like Sumitomo and Toyota.

[@TheLaXandro]

Sony makes more on finance and insurance than on all their electronics combined.

[@rickricardu]

Connor what is the bank name??? I live in Tokyo.

[@NikkyElso]

They'll never say. Saying anything negative, even if it's true or clearly an opinion, is a one way ticket to getting sued in Japan.

[@rickricardu]

@ I wanna know the Good bank.

[@tborsje]

The good bank is probably Sony And the bad bank, Yucho (JP Post)

[@rickricardu]

@ I have Sony bank. It is the best!!

[@MidgarMerc]

I have Yucho... it's awful.

[@Nurr0]

TIL the contactless limits in the UK are quite low (compared to AU).

[@mannywilliams6409]

It seems that Japan is good with hardware, software not so much!

[@Censton]

How are they good in hardware?

[@Bft149]

@@Censton Company in Japan are primarily focused on hardware over software. Look at the bigger tech company for reference like Sony, Nintendo, Panasonic, and Fujitsu.

[@ZakMon1]

@@Bft149 I would put Nintendo in the good software side not hardware lol

[@ProtoMarcus]

@@ZakMon1 ''Good software side'' Many of their first-party games are not optimized whatsoever for their very own system and the Nintendo eShop is still... The Nintendo eShop... (and their online service is still very underwhelming and underperforming)

[@ZakMon1]

@@ProtoMarcus what switch first party games are not optimized well. Name one im actually curious because I've played every Nintendo publish game and they run perfect

[@kaminariclara]

I KNEW IT WASN'T JUST ME!!

[@Thrakus]

Can someone plz make a translator witch overlays am image over the site , so it looks translated to the user when it is just an overlay.

[@Chronon88]

Don't you have those online based banks which don't even have offices? Those are better because they cannot require you to visit.

[@brianpietrantonio9284]

SMBC Trust Bank - Prestia is the bank you should be at

[@comradebeaver6173]

It’s so funny, I use my foreign banks as primary in Japan. They are all terrible as my paycheck is moved over immediately

[@martian-sunset]

I use google translate every day on many Japanese sites, including banks. It's never "broken" them. Lucky, I guess.

[@jordiekirk4985]

If you need to use Google translate for vital and important documents within a country, then you shouldn't be living in that country

[@lonelylillamb5802]

9:10 sounds like how it cost ¢2 to make ¢1 in the US lol

[@valhallakombi7239]

Even though India is so shit is so many ways, UPI and QR code based payment system has always been a highlight of living here. The best payment method ever

[@SamGarcia]

Apparently, Japan has very bad IT infrastructure in general (though bank IT anywhere is bad)

[@Shadepariah]

It's probably his browser's user agent string is got "English" for the language.

[@RJ-kg5fe]

I’m moving to Japan for language school. My advisor is saying I can only sign up with Japan post bank. Are they good???

[@Hydrogenium_74]

They opened online applications and mobile applications last year it is a bit of work to setup, but it works for the most part. but you should know some Japanese to open an account or take someone with you that can help out. but yeah only the Japan post bank accept opening a bank account within the first 6 months when you enter Japan if you are not on a work visa. The big advantage is that you will find support and ATMS everywhere because they are the biggest bank in Japan by far. I went trough everything 3 months ago, it takes a bit of time, but they will do their best to guide you trough everything.

[@Teacup-o5h]

I also signed up with Japan post bank, they are good. For opening an account you should have someone helping you out. Good luck and have a great time with language school!

[@RJ-kg5fe]

@Teacup-o5h thanks

[@tborsje]

That is likely the shit bank being raged against in the video haha. But they are they easiest to sign up to without a current working visa, so newcomers have little choice but to go with them.

[@chivalrousguy2930]

It's been a while since I last opened a new bank account but the 3 banks that has names that start with M didn't let foreigners without a long term student visa or who couldn't speak any Japanese or don't have a Japanese sim card to apply.

[@dylantaylor490]

I'm really curious what banks they are talking about

[@ErickGonzalesF]

Connor needs to share which talks he switch to!

[@justinwinsbro7770]

Wait, I’m an American here. You guys have limits on your contactless pay?

[@luketheskymarshall4472]

This is a weird question but if I move to Japan what bank should I use? Like what bank does Cdawg use

[@Yuubari]

so glad canada got rid of the penny in 2013.

[@HectorGama94]

1 yen is japanese economy whole

[@C.u.d.s]

Which bank is he talking about that he opened online? Wtf

[@patrickdix772]

I do wonder if it is just bad coding, or legitimately anti-foreigner features.

[@andrewhegstrom2187]

The answer is probably yes to both.

[@lordeisschrank]

I guess I did not sign up to that bank... whatever it is. But I think I might be at Connors new one?

[@tomo_ka3040]

10:58 MASSIVE?

[@IdolMako]

you know what else is massive?

[@UnfilteredCactus]

Whats the good bank? Ive been in Japan for a year and have been using reliable US banks. I need an account for Golds Gym

[@雪見巫女琉璃]

well, JAPAN and Japanese have made a cutting edge Technology , BUT, THEY Still live in very old ANALOG world, and prefer All Japanese talking. Travel or Live in Japan, they are different, with huge gap.

[@johnxy416]

Suica max is 20k. flex on that bank card

[@4nimeJax]

Living in Japan for the last 2 years, I hate the banking system here more than anything else. Buying anything online is a pain in the ass, I'm limited to how much I can spend in a day, the bank apps are prehistoric and need an major update. If you have an issue, you have to go to the bank between 10am-3pm monday-friday. It is genuinely terrible

[@bradbarnett4111]

Be your own bank with bitcoin

[@bk1507]

Or, I know this is ridiculous to expect for people living in a foreign country, you could learn Japanese?

[@knightmare5906]

If they don't care enough to make an English website, which almost every bank does btw, Then why sabotage it by making Google Translate harder?

[@SF7PAKISTAN]

I live in Pakistan and every essential service that you'll ever need has websites in English. Just because they're in Japan doesn't mean that they'll always get users who can read and speak Japanese

[@tams805]

While I don't blame the bank's web developers and security in this case, banks in Japan hardly use simple language on their websites. Along with terrible Japanese website design, you do need to be pretty good at Japanese to navhigate them smoothly.

[@pres002]

I think I will live in japan and use my american bank lol

[@ThePatxiao]

I mean essentially just 30 dollars is a pretty small limit

[@Milla4life2]

All the Americans acting as if we don’t have spending limits shows me how broke some of yall are. 😂

[@porcorosso4330]

To be honest, it is a lot higher than ¥5000... Due to all the fake credit card machines at convenient stores and gas stations... (And the pandemic...) I think contactless became the more secure and preferred way to pay now days...

[@Milla4life2]

@ yeah it’s about 10,000. Went to buy a car and bank declined it had to call in

[@theplaylistpsycho]

Lmao saw your comment where you smoked the brokeboy out of the top comment 😂

[@incepimus]

seems super entitled to complain about how hard life is living in japan not speaking japanese

[@autohmae]

You do know why you are getting these errors ? You are giving Google access to your back account.

[@elitesriracha347]

Contactless pay limits exist? Wtf here in the states the limit is your balance lol

[@ericancion2442]

It's probably not that much of a bad thing. considering it limits debit/credit card fraud

[@spicy_mint]

the limits are a good thing The limits can also be set be the retailer to also try and prevent fraud (normal purchases just tap but unusually large purchases need pin) considering tap is used by debit and credit imagine getting your entire debit account drained from a fraud tap attempt vs just a few hundred

[@happyman1234]

I guess after a certain amount, you need to use your pin. Not outright disabled the feature. Most likely for security reasons, if you lost your card

[@elitesriracha347]

The huge benefit for contactless pay methods are digital wallets like apple pay since you just need a phone which requires passcode or bio metric verification and the tap to pay features are tokenized so its a single use proxy that is useless if someone has tech to intercept the data. Thats especially useful since people put skimmers on payment terminals or to avoid any anxiety from having a bad cashier stealing card info.

[@Milla4life2]

No it’s not. Tell me you’ve never bought something for over 25k without telling me. That shit will decline and you gotta call the bank

[@flyte707]

Just learn japanese smh

[@dasenase]

Imagine moving to Japan because you like anime lol

[@Folsomdsf2]

/sigh FYI, google translate is not what broke it. It was you sending your banking details to a 3rd party AND their security details. If you don't know how something works.. probably not the tool to use.

[@mrcoolguy1008]

Yea but how would the average consumer know that? And if anything the banks should relay that which they didnt even know

[@archaeopteryx981]

​@@mrcoolguy1008 You should NEVER use Google Translate to access any bank account or any other sensitive information because it’s unsecure. It’s essentially handing over all your personal details to Google, which they can do what they want with (they’re under no obligation to delete it or keep it private). It’s not a bank-specific thing. It’s a general internet safety thing, like don’t use random public wi-fi.

[@felisconcolori]

So, you work for that bank and can confirm their system makes these checks?

[@tams805]

@@felisconcolori It's conjecture, but it is a reasonable one. More reasonable than assuming that the bank just hates foreigners.

[@felisconcolori]

@@tams805 Where pray tell did I inspire you to create an idea I never posited? Or did you assume that on your own? Have a great afternoon (or night, twilight, dawn, brunch, or dinner; as appropriate for your location and time zone)

[@Jimmysarsi]

first

[@Outerringfuelgod]

Someone should lock Joey's mouth so he can't spew ignorant garbage about what anxiety is like

[@jacobpipers]

5 years all on the Phone??? what its been on my phone fore the past 10 years...

[@zestynotions]

Shinseibank is the way to go. Resona bank is the worst. Also consider that their hiragana sign is りそな　（risona） but their romaji name is "Resona" both "ri" and re" exists in hiragana, but its still different... let that sink in and then imagine how their service is. and of course if transferring money and you get this wrong, the transfer will fail. If you think this is acceptable, fight me!