Two stories

I had a work meeting the other day.

We have a small group in my office who are in charge of communicating in times of a catastrophe etc.

One person was a little apprehensive of joining and asked is there any legal risk of doing this in Japan.

So a meeting was set.

He overseas crisis person talked about how it was unlikely and about how the law is in Canada and Europe. He eventually always mentioned he assumes or imagines in the same in Japan.

In other words no definitive answer, but he didn’t see why he answer is good enough.

The person left the crisis cell.

I have a friend who left Japan to move back to America.

He was supposed to get money back from his realtor/landlord.

The amount was substantially less on documents because they could not deduct a fee from his account.

My friend says he definitely had money in there.

He doesn’t seem focused on how to prove this, but more on the fact that he “definitely” did and how they’re trying to scam him.

It is incredibly foreign to me for people to feel confident in making statements without having proof in front of them, or not have their immediate action plan being about how to ascertain said proof. Why does your confidence in a situation matter when you can’t proof it? How can another act based just on that confidence?

I’m not sure if this feeling of mine is inherently due to having lived in Japan a long time or not.