In Japan, we do not have a habit of taking home what we could not eat at a restaurant. Except for restaurants that assume take-outs such as fast foods, We are supposed to eat all in the restaurant. I do not know why but I heard from olden days.
Therefore, let’s order as much as you can eat on there.
There are many shops in Japan that sell all items at 100 yen (+ consumption tax). 100 yen is about 40 – 50 pesos.
Those shops sell for 100 yen even it is a worth expensive item. Since they suppress purchasing costs by purchasing in bulk. For example, this can opener is also 100 yen. It is cheaper than buying in the Philippines.
Also, packages that are more expensive, such as detergents, are sold at 100 yen by reducing the amount. Therefore most of daily necessities can be purchased at 100 yen shop.
There are inferior goods while it is cheap, but if you make good use of the 100 yen shop, you can suppress your daily expenses.
In addition, the largest store called “Daiso” sells with products of 200 yen or more not only 100 yen item. Therefore the product range is more abundant than the 100 yen uniform shop.
Microwave is called “Denshi Renji” in Japanese. “Denshi” is an electron in Japanese, and “Renji” is maybe a Range of English.
A Japanese who can not speak English does not understand what “microwave” is. Of course they can not understand “heat up” or “warm up”.
So when you buy something at the convinience store and you want warm it up, say “Atatamete kudasai” to the clerk. Or simply say “Chin”. “Chin” is the bell sound when the time up of the microwave. You can order by the short word.
Japan is a vending machine powerhouse. Therefore, there are many casual restaurant that selling the food voucher. We buy it with a vending machine instead of ordering to a clerk. When we sit down and pass the ticket to the clerk, that dish will be carried. In short, it is prepayment.
However, an old-fashioned button-type ticket vending machine does not have English notation. Foreigners may not know which button should be pressed.
Recent ticket vending machines that have become full touch panels may switch the display language to English, Chinese, and so on.
There are no stray dogs in urban areas of Japan, but we can see stray cats sometimes. Most cats run away when someone approaches, but some cats are familiar to humans.
There is also “regional cat”. They have no specific owner, but volunteers in the area feeds and watch over them. They do not breed because they have undergone castration surgery. There is a notch in the ears of the castrated cat.
I do not know whether the anime of the “Youkai Watch” is being televised in the Philippines, Jiba-nyan also has incise in his ear, so he can not make offsprings. He dead already. He is a ghost called “Youkai”.
We often see stray dogs in the Philippines. But I heard that we should not to  touch them. Because they may have skin diseases and rabies.
In Japan, there are no stray dogs, at least in urban areas. Though they were several decades ago. Perhaps it is because the city developed and stray dogs can not live in there. Incidentally, I sometimes see a stray cat.
Also, the number of owners who give dogs contraceptive surgery is increasing. Nonetheless, there are some foolish people who threw out the baby puppies. Dogs who were unable to find an owner after being protected would have been killed. I do not want that necessity it.
By the way, there have been no cases of human rabies in Japan for more than 60 years. However, there is a case that Japanese suffered rabies in the Philippines.
In the Philippines, we often see cattle and goats in a vacant of the town. And there is a chicken in front of the house. Especially goats eat various plants and it helps weeding.
In Japan, we can only see these animals in farms and zoos, unless it is quite a countryside. In urban areas of Japan, land prices are high and the population is large, so land is used as a residential area or commercial site, it is not realistic to keep livestock at home.
In the Philippines, I heard that even usual guards have guns. Really?
In Japan, only police officers and SDF personnel have guns during their duties.
Hunters are allowed to possess and use hunting guns. But obtaining a hunting license has a rigorous review that takes months. And hunters are required to keep strict storage and use conditions.
However, according to one theory, it is said that 50,000 handguns are already smuggled into Japan.
But it is rarely used, because everyone should not have a gun ostensibly. There are rare cases of gunfire incidents due to conflict between gangsters.
By the way, I heard that there is an illegal gun factory in the Philippines. A Japanese journalist Interviewed and reported so. f course not to mention places and stakeholders. In the story the journalist heard, some metal parts of the gun are made in Japan. What a shame.
The kind of drugs is very hard to obtain in Japan.
Of course if you find a seller somehow it will be possible to buy it. Because some people are trying to make money with anti-social outrageous behavior also in Japan.
The Japanese society is very cold to people who arrested for the use or possession of drugs. Even if it is the first time, social reversion becomes extremely difficult.
