In this short post, let me complain about the one thing I've so far managed to repeatedly fail at. In Japan, you need a stamp to sign things called an "inkan". However, you need a SPECIAL kind of stamp which you register at the municipal office called a "jitsuin" to sign really important things like insurance documents, car licenses, and importantly for me, rental leases. So I went to a Tokyu Hands store in Takashima times square on day 2 and got myself an Inkan. I could only fit two characters on it, so I just put "sa-mu". But, I realized afterwards that I couldn't register that inkan as a jitsuin because the jitsuin must have exactly the name shown on the alien registration certificate, which was "pi-na-n-su-ki sa-myu-e-ru". It wasn't really a waste, though, since I can use that inkan to sign for normal things (like packages).
However, when I went BACK to the Tokyu Hands store today, and asked for them to make a jitsuin with my full name, they said they couldn't do it because there were too many characters to fit on the stamp (even the big ones). I'm not sure what to do now, so I'll ask my advisor tomorrow when I finally go to work for the first day.
I suppose my other continuous failure so far is finding roll-on deoderant. I saw some in a store once, but didn't buy it because I thought I could get it elsewhere (but it seems I was wrong).
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