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Originally Posted by mdp
But again, you could pay with cards, I bet, in case you wanted to?
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No. You can't. McDonald's? Probably. A hotel? Probably. A random restaurant/book store/what have you? Probably not. Outside of the city? Probably not.
If you're lucky, there will be an ATM nearby that will let you withdraw cash (for a fee of course).
Money in Japan
Cash, cards, and ATMs
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Originally Posted by mdp
It is not "advanced" to jump on a technological bandwagon "just because it's there", as I am seeing in the - clearly decaying to a fall - western world.
Those two points - containment of unrequired pollution and privacy as a default - indicate "civilized" to me.
Japan is, according to the 2016 OECD report about literacy, the current pinnacle of the distribution of intellectual skills - and well higher than second-placed Scandinavian - Benelux countries. They probably have, in general, an idea of what they are doing.
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Not sure where you're going with this, or what sort of comment you thought I was making about Japan?
'High tech' and 'civilized' are not synonyms, to me anyway. Japan is a very civilized place, (especially if you are both Japanese and a male).
But they are not the high tech, 'twenty years ahead of the West' dynamo they were in the eighties. From what I've read and watched elsewhere, they think the USA is very high tech.