Looks like the USA isn’t the only country offering a stimulus bonus to its citizens. But in Japan, their forms use sample names that seem to have a higher midichlorian count.
Star Wars fan Robert Paske writes:
So Japan is in the midst of doing a sort of stimulus payment like the US did a short time back, though it looks like the payouts are smaller. Since I’ve been in Japan long enough on a valid work visa, paying into the taxes, I get a little bit of that. I got the forms in the mail a couple days ago. Included with the application form is a sheet, mostly in Japanese but with some English, showing how to correctly fill out the form. I don’t know if this sheet was sent out to everyone or just the foreigners who qualified, but take a look at the names they used as sample names. I love this country.
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(Jedi hand wave) You want to give me a stimulus bonus
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That is incredible! Someone in that government has a great sense of humor!
Small update/correction. Apparently, each city/ward was responsible for notifying their residents about the program. People living in other cities had different explanation letters, which showed different names. Taking a closer look at the sample sent with mine, it does show an address for Niseko on it. So it is apparently my city itself that rocks. I’ve posted the same correction in my blog as well.