A survey from Japan’s SMBC Consumer Finance found that nearly 20% of young Japanese people struggle to pay rent thanks to microtransactions.

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a time of tense political and religious conflict -- but to the quartet of teen girls at the heart of the show, military checkpoints are just another fact of life to roll their eyes at. They're more ...