the thing they don't tell you about moving to japan as an american is that while you no longer have to be subjected to pharmaceutical ads every five minutes to get you to pressure your doctor into prescribing you crap you don't need, instead you're subjected to short term loan ads every five minutes from every company, messenger app, and their grandma wanting to make 18% interest off your forgetful ass when you realize you didn't buy your partner a birthday present until after you spent all of your last paycheck on izakaya drinks or whatever
it's bonkers, dude, i'm pretty sure toyotomi hideyoshi and oda nobunaga show up in one particular ad campaign for one of the big firms in that industry more often than people here talk about the real historical figures and you can't walk five feet without being reminded of those two