Slightly misspoke, you can message other people, BUT THERE IS A CHARGE TO IT. Are you denying the e-mail for each phone number thing? What other reason would they have that for?
Of course there is different pricing for sending SMS internationally and across providers. That's because it's part of the crappy old phone system and has all of the left overs involved with that.
That is why email is better. You get charged for "packets" of a fixed size. Where those packets go doesn't matter. They are only charged on the amount rounded up to the size of a single packet unit. Back in the day that was a pretty big deal because it meant lonely weeb virgins outside of Japan could email their early internet girlfriends directly to their phones as long as they could work out the right encoding.
There isn't a email address for each phone. You had an email address associated with your account and your phone was setup to collect those emails via a gateway system in the garakei days. I have no idea what my softbank provided email even is. Everyone uses gmail or whatever rainbow flavored thing you get on iphones is.
...? What's your point? I literally said you need a Japanese number and you said "Haha no you can get a number this way". YES, BECAUSE YOU NEED TO HAVE A PHONE NUMBER.
I was actually arguing you don't need a phone number in a lot of cases. And the few cases you do it is very easy to get one as IP phone services have been a thing in Japan forever.
For example you don't need a phone number for packages. Registered packages like credit cards etc might need a phone number listed on the senders side but it could be anything.
There are actually ways to send packages without any of the receivers details recently.
LMFAO bitter old gaijin confirmed. Enjoy your 田舎生活 driving to the local grocery store to get your gallon of shochu to drown your problems as your bitch wife sucks the life, money, and ambition out of you day by day. Enjoy your dead-end job.
Ah nice one. As you are were so integrated here, better than Byuu, why did you go home?
I'm putting my money on that your English speaking tard contract didn't get renewed and you had to leave?
Sorry you have no social life and also think a social life only involves socializing with co-workers. Enjoy sitting under you kotatsu, eating mikans, and drinking a Strong Zero while you complain about how all the other ホワイトピッグs need to ゴーホーム because they're ruining your precious Japan.
- Socializing with Japanese co-workers would be a sign of integration right? Why is that a bad thing? Going to the local hub and hoping some yariman comes along is more integrated?
- Eating enough mikan that they come out of your nose and getting fucked up with the relatives around the kotatsu is a good sign of integration is it not? Based on your rules sitting in your crappy one room apartment eating your fifth cup ramen for the day is more integrated as long as you have a Japanese phone number. If that's your logic I think you need to start asking your mother why the sugar in your house was gray and not white.
- Don't assume my pronouns^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H race you bigot! I don't give a fuck about what other foreigners are doing in Japan. Doesn't affect me. Sure seems like they get your pussy in a rage though.
Go back to the comments section of JapanToday
Your logic is messed up again. JapanToday is for people like you that don't live in Japan anymore or live in Japan but their wife stole their kids and now live alone with a tiny bath tub in the same room as their one hub IH kitchen. It's a place for them to cry about Japan being horrible while secretly hoping that Japan will create a new visa class for talentless super creeps with yellow fever so they can get back in.
As a man of good upbringing and class that has had sex with real human vagina* the only news I read is the troubleshooter section in the yomiuri.
Anyhow, it's been fun, I'll be back in a week or so to laugh at the next attempt here to "out japan" Byuu or Hector by some cheesy dicked retard. See you then.
*silicone molds of real vaginas don't count btw. You can't get into the cool people gang via the back door.