Unlike in the U.S., legal adulthood in Japan doesn’t begin until the age of 20. But while that means an extra two years to enjoy the benefits and protection society affords to minors, everyone has to grow up sometime, and for one Japanese Twitter user the transition was especially abrupt. 
 
 On his 20th birthday as his parents presented him with a written notice congratulating him on graduating from childhood and celebrating his newfound freedoms, while spelling out exactly what they, and the world, now expected of him as an adult. 
 
 Twitter user @zamayuma1004’s birthday was last weekend, and this year he hit the two-decade mark. On his special day, his parents presented him with this festive-looking envelope. 
 
 Normally when someone hands you something like this on your birthday, you expect a birthday card, and the envelope did indeed have “Happy birthday” written on it. What was inside, though, was a little less orthodox. 
 
 The paper reads: 
 
 Happy 20th Birthday! Notice of Expiration of Child-Rearing Services As of October 4, 2015, your father, Yoshikazu Hasegawa, and mother, Chiaki Hasegawa, have completed their duties of raising their child: you, Yuma Hasegawa. Going forward, please become a proper and responsible member of society, like your father and mother. In addition, should you continue living in the Hasegawa family home, please make a monthly payment of 20,000 yen [US$168] for rent, utility, and grocery expenses. Also, please be aware that should you ask for a loan from your parents, interest will be charged. Points to note upon reaching the age of 20 
 
 ● You must make compulsory national pension payments. If you put this off it will cause problems, so make the payments. 
 
 ● Should you commit a crime, your face and name can now be shown on television and in newspapers. You will also have a permanent criminal record. 
 
 ● You can now buy alcohol and tobacco products. Do not drive while intoxicated. 
 
 ● You can get married without your parents’ permission. However, they may not emotionally accept your wife as their daughter-in-law if you don’t discuss the situation without them beforehand. 
 
 ● Think responsibly about the future and set aside an adequate amount of savings from the money you earn. Please enjoy your life as an adult. 
 
 Although the document might sound the like the grumblings of a pair of exasperated parents who’ve reached the limits of their patience, @zamayuma1004 says they’ve got their tongues firmly planted in their cheeks. He’s actually been paying the monthly amount mentioned for rent and expenses since last year, and he hopes to do even more to help his parents out in the future. 
 
 That said, this is a documented case of pretty tough love by Japanese standards, considering that at the age of 20 much of the population is still attending college or trade school, and that it’s customary to continue living with your parents until getting married or school or work takes you away from your home town. Still, it’s hard to argue with any of the things @zamayuma1004’s parents are saying as they tell him not to let the door of his childhood hit him in the butt on his way out of it. 
 
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 Top image: Twitter/@zamayuma1004 (1, 2) (edited by RocketNews24) ||||| Image caption Japan's elderly population continues to grow, with more than a quarter of the population now of retirement age 
 
 Japan's government plans to end the tradition of giving centenarians a silver commemorative gift, because the growing elderly population has made it too expensive, it's reported. 
 
 Since 1963, a silver sake cup - or sakazuki - has been presented to everyone who reaches 100 years old. The cups, worth 8,000 yen ($65; £40) each, are a thank you for centenarians' contribution to society. But as Japan's elderly population has expanded, so too has the gift bill, Kyodo news agency reports. Last year, the government shelled out 260 million yen ($2.1m; £1.3m) on the items, a figure officials say isn't sustainable. 
 
 As a result, they want to replace the gift with something less pricey. Options being considered include using cheaper materials or choosing something completely different to mark the occasion - possibly just a letter of congratulations, officials tell Kyodo. 
 
 There were more than 29,000 new centenarians in Japan last year, compared to 153 when the scheme began, the report says. Life expectancy in Japan is among the highest in the world, and the number of people seeing their 100th birthday has grown every year since 1971. 
 
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 Use #NewsfromElsewhere to stay up-to-date with our reports via Twitter. ||||| Members of the graduating class at the Savannah College of Art and Design commencement in Atlanta. For the first time on record, living with parents is now the most common arrangement for Americans age 18 to 34. (John Amis/ASSOCIATED PRESS) 
 
 It’s true: Kids Today are more dependent on their parents than Kids Yesterday. 
 
 At least when it comes to housing. 
 
 Nearly a third of Americans age 18 to 34 were living with their parents in 2014, according to a new analysis from the Pew Research Center. That’s the highest share since the Great Depression. 
 
 It was also the first time since at least 1880 that young adults were more likely to live in their parents’ homes than in their own households with a spouse or other romantic partner. 
 
 Crusty old pundits will surely declare this a sign of millennials’ failure to launch. They will bemoan young people’s insistence on mooching off of beleaguered boomer parents rather than going into the real world and getting their own grown-up jobs, spouses and mortgages. Millennial basement-dwelling — along with millennial musical tastes, millennial slang and millennial fashions — is thus clear evidence of a generation-wide crisis of character. 
 
 The millennial generation is now the largest, most ethnically diverse generation in American history. (Daron Taylor/The Washington Post) 
 
 But there are a few reasons all this re-nesting may not be such a bad thing. 
 
 For one, consider the macroeconomic and social conditions that today’s young adults face. 
 
 Their unemployment (and underemployment) rates remain relatively high, as do their student debt burdens. Their wages have stagnated. 
 
 Young adults want to live on their own and aspire to purchase homes. But homeownership remains far out of their reach. National home prices today are not so far below their pre-recession peaks, with some metro areas even reaching all-time highs. 
 
 Meanwhile, rents, too, have skyrocketed, fast outpacing inflation. 
 
 Young people are also living with their parents in higher numbers in part because they’re delaying marriage. This is a consequence of both precarious job prospects and a growing perception that financial security is a prerequisite to tying the knot — which the vast majority of singles say they still very much want to do. 
 
 In this context, swallowing their pride and living above the family garage rather than frittering away money on rent looks rather financially prudent. 
 
 Second, the growth of intergenerational households shouldn’t be so alarming given how common this living arrangement is everywhere else in the developed world. In fact, the share of young adults here who live with their folks is still relatively low compared with the rate in many of our peer countries. 
 
 According to a recent census survey, 42 percent of Canadian adults age 20 to 29 live in their parents’ homes. Across the European Union, nearly half of young adults age 18 to 34 live with their parents. In Japan, about half of unmarried 20-to-34-year-olds (dubbed “parasite singles”) live with their parents, too. 
 
 But, you cry: American exceptionalism! We don’t want to be like everyone else! 
 
 It’s not clear, though, why a society in which young singles live on their own is more desirable than one in which the same demographic errs on the side of doubling up with relatives. This norm is especially puzzling in the United States, where for decades the tax code has incentivized home buyers to purchase as much house as possible, whether or not they need the space. 
 
 Perhaps it makes sense to use the housing stock we already have more efficiently, rather than insisting that young people move out as part of some artificial adulthood milestone. 
 
 Of course, boomers may object to bunking up with their boomeranging offspring, even on occasions when they do have ample space. 
 
 Well, boohoo. 
 
 Today’s boomers have benefited for decades from huge public intergenerational transfers of wealth. Is it really so much to ask that they make some much smaller private intergenerational transfers to their own children? 
 
 The public infrastructure that boomers have enjoyed all their lives was largely built by their elders. Those who went to college paid very low tuition and received much more generous public subsidies for their schooling. For decades they have paid tax rates far too low to actually fund the government services they receive. They have racked up trillions in federal debt and handed the tab to their kids. 
 
 As boomers increasingly age into Medicare eligibility, those intergenerational transfers will further balloon. 
 
 Take a two-earner couple who worked every year of their adult lives, with both spouses receiving the average wage until turning 65 and retiring last year. For every $1 that they paid into the Medicare system, they will receive $3 back in benefits, according to estimates from the Urban Institute. 
 
 Guess who has to pay the difference? Yup. Their good-for-nothin’, basement-dwelling, parasitic boomerang kids. 
 
 In this light, the return home of young adults should be seen less as an act of morally bankrupt mooching and more as a step toward balancing the intergenerational ledger. ||||| Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Japan's teenagers will get to do some new things - but not others 
 
 Adulthood is about to come a lot earlier in life for many in Japan. 
 
 The government has enacted a bill lowering the age of adulthood from 20 to 18, which will affect millions across the country when it takes effect in 2022. 
 
 It's the first time the age of adulthood has been changed since it was set in 1876. 
 
 What will 18-year-olds be allowed to do? 
 
 The biggest change is they will be able to get married without parental consent. 
 
 Currently, males over the age of 18 and females 16 and over can marry - but only with the say-so of their parents. Otherwise you need to be 20. 
 
 But the revised Civil Code raises the age at which women can get married and means all 18-year-olds will be able to wed without parental consent. 
 
 They'll also be able to apply for credit cards and make loans without parental approval and, if they want, they can obtain a passport valid for 10 years. 
 
 Currently, minors are only allowed passports valid for five years, and need a parent or guardian's signature. 
 
 As part of the lowering of the adulthood age, revisions have been made to more than 20 laws, including those on nationality and certain professional qualifications such as being a chartered accountant. 
 
 Those who have been diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder will be able to apply to have their gender legally changed at the age of 18. 
 
 What won't they be allowed to do? 
 
 Though they are technically adults, 18-year-olds in Japan will remain banned from drinking alcohol, smoking, gambling and adopting children. 
 
 They'll still have to wait until they turn 20 for that. 
 
 How are people reacting to this? 
 
 Many on social media aren't very excited about the new bill. 
 
 "So I'll be 18 years old and an adult but I won't be able to drink alcohol or gamble?" asked one user on Twitter. "That doesn't make sense." 
 
 "I can take a loan when I'm 18, but drinking will still be prohibited," another user pointed out. 
 
 Some also pointed out that there might be confusion around the Coming of Age ceremony - a Japanese holiday that is held in January every year for those aged 20 to officially welcome them into adulthood. 
 
 Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The Coming of Age ceremony is celebrated annually on the second Monday of January 
 
 "So what happens to our Coming of Age ceremony? Do we still celebrate it when we're 20?" said one Twitter user. 
 
 "January is university entrance exam season for 18-year-olds. So we can't have our Coming of Age ceremony then... so when is it going to be?" one Japanese user asked. 
 
 Why the change? 
 
 There have been arguments around the legal age of adulthood in Japan for decades, and the Legislative Council of the Ministry of Justice had in 2009 released a report recommending the age of adulthood be lowered to 18. 
 
 Members of the governing Liberal Democratic Party say lowering the legal age of adulthood will help revitalise an ageing society with a falling birthrate. 
 
 In 2015, the government lowered the voting age from 20 to 18. 
 
 So are 18-year-olds in Japan now considered adults? 
 
 The law is only set to take effect in April 2022, so unfortunately, those that are currently 18 will still have to wait until 20 before they are legally considered adults. 
 
 This means that today's 14-year-olds will be among the first batch of teenagers to fall under the new law - only four years to go. 
 
 Additional reporting by the BBC's Sakiko Shiraishi ||||| The Asahi Shimbun / 2013 The Asahi Shimbun Writer and NHK board member Naoki Hyakuta, seen here last year at the launch of one of his books, believes the Japanese did not commit war crimes in World War II and that the U.S. fabricated them 
 
 In the clearest signal yet of U.S. unhappiness with the rightward tilt of Japan’s political leadership — and by extension, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — the U.S. embassy in Tokyo has strongly condemned charges by a top official at Japan’s national public broadcaster that Americans fabricated war crimes against Japanese leaders during World War II in order to cover up American atrocities. 
 
 “These suggestions are preposterous. We hope that people in positions of responsibility in Japan and elsewhere would seek to avoid comments that inflame tensions in the region,” an embassy spokesman told TIME early on Friday. 
 
 The charges were made this week by Naoki Hyakuta, a nationalist writer and close friend of Abe, who was recently appointed to the board of governors of the Japan Broadcasting Corp., commonly known as NHK. 
 
 In campaign speeches on behalf of a far-right candidate for the governorship of Tokyo, Hyakuta claimed that the infamous Nanjing Massacre in 1937 never occurred, and that Americans staged the postwar trials of Japanese leaders to cover up U.S. war crimes. He said those crimes included the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the mass firebombings of Tokyo. 
 
 The staunchly conservative Abe himself caused diplomatic outrage in December, when he paid his respects at Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine — a memorial to the Japanese war dead including 14 high-ranking war criminals. Beijing, Seoul and Washington strongly condemned the visit. Now supporters of Abe who have been appointed to NHK’s top decisionmaking body are fueling tensions by making revisionist or inflammatory statements. 
 
 Last week, the new NHK chairman Katsuto Momii provoked outrage both at home and abroad when he said all of the countries involved in World War II maintained “comfort women” — a euphemism for the system of forced prostitution employed by the Japanese military during the war years. 
 
 That charge prompted a frosty denial from the U.S. embassy in Tokyo that American forces had engaged in any such activity. 
 
 Along with Hyakuta’s charges, it was reported this week that another NHK board member had published an essay praising the leader of a nationalist group who committed ritual suicide in the offices of a major newspaper in October 1993 to protest negative news coverage. 
 
 Board member Michiko Hasegawa wrote that because the activist recited a brief prayer to the Emperor before shooting himself in the abdomen, “His Majesty the Emperor has again become a living god.” Hasegawa is a professor emeritus of Japanese cultural studies in Tokyo. 
 
 Japan’s Emperors were once worshipped as living gods, but are designated under the current constitution as “the symbol of the state and of the unity of the people.” As such, they have no governing authority or official religious function. 
 
 Hasegawa, who also has close ties to Abe, published the essay in connection with a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the activist’s death. 
 
 The appointment of such staunch nationalists to NHK’s board is part of a concerted campaign by the Abe administration to recast Japan as the true victim of World War II and put a more benign face on the country’s often brutal colonial practices, says Jeff Kingston, professor of Asian studies at Temple University’s Tokyo campus. 
 
 “These are Abe’s cronies, they agree with his revisionist views, and now he’s putting them in positions of power and influence,” says Kingston. “What they don’t realize is that the right-wing revisionists are not convincing many people in Japan, and they are not convincing people outside Japan. What they are doing is creating a huge diplomatic problem.” 
 
 Japan is locked in increasingly tense disputes with neighboring China and South Korea over territorial and historical issues. A spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry denounced Hyakuta’s statements on the Nanjing Massacre as “a barefaced challenge to international justice and human conscience” and called on Japan to “face up” to its history. 
 
 China says 300,000 Chinese soldiers and civilians died in Nanjing during a weeks-long rampage by Japanese troops. Although some mainstream historians put the number of casualties lower, few — if any — deny the incident occurred. 
 
 Critics say the Abe appointees threaten the editorial integrity of Japan’s largest broadcaster. 
 
 “Just the knowledge of the character of the governors leads producers and journalists working for NHK to engage in self-censorship,” says Michael Cucek, a Tokyo-based research associate at MIT’s Center for International Studies. 
 
 Indeed, NHK did not report chairman Momii’s controversial statements on comfort women until he was grilled by opposition members during a Diet session three days afterward. Nor had news of the debate over Hyakuta’s and Hasegawa’s statements appeared on the NHK news website as of early Friday — despite more than 7,200 messages, mostly negative, phoned in or emailed to NHK’s headquarters. 
 
 Members of the opposition have called for the appointees to be replaced, but an Abe spokesman said all had been speaking in their capacities as private citizens and had not violated government policy. 
 
 NHK is Japan’s largest television network, funded largely by viewer license fees. It produces round-the-clock entertainment and public-interest programming and operates news bureaus around the world. 
 
 The 12 members of NHK’s board serve three-year terms. They are appointed by the Prime Minister with approval of the Diet and exercise authority over NHK’s annual budget and top executives. 
 
 Hyakuta is the author of several best-selling books, including The Eternal Zero. Abe and his wife attended a screening of the film version of the book over the New Year holiday. The movie ends with the hero, a pacifist fighter pilot turned Kamikaze, flying his airplane into an American aircraft carrier. ||||| Many of you already know what has been going on in my family for the past year and a half. When my daughter moved out of my house in February 2013, I never could have imagined that this is where I would be in 18 months. Anyone who hears this story thinks it’s crazy, and no one can believe that this case saw the inside of a courtroom. But it did. And I lost. And now I don’t know what else to do except to tell my story and hope and pray that there is someone who can help me, someone who can help me make sense of what has happened to the child I raised, a victim of “the age of entitlement.” 
 
 I wanted to begin by telling the story of a struggling 20-year-old college student, who worked full-time to put herself through college with no help from her parents. I am not talking about my daughter, Caitlyn, I am talking about myself. I was only a few months older than Caitlyn is now, living in an apartment, working full-time and attending college full-time, when I found out I was pregnant. From that very first moment, my life changed. My priorities changed. I was going to be a mother, and this child would come first, no matter what. 
 
 Within three years, I would be a soon-to-be divorced single mother. I worked hard to provide a home for Caitlyn and me, and to make sure she would never go without, despite the fact that I still had not finished college. Every week, I crammed a full-time job into 3 days, so that I only worked while Caitlyn was with her father. I spent the weekdays with Caitlyn, attending Gymboree, Mommy and Me, visiting art museums, parks, and aquariums. When she was old enough to start preschool, I returned to college part-time, taking out student loans (which eventually totaled $40K, and I am still paying for). When she started kindergarten, we opted to pay for a Catholic school because we wanted her to have the best, and we didn’t feel that the public schools in our area were good enough. 
 
 When I remarried in 2002, Caitlyn walked me down the aisle and came with my husband and I on our honeymoon. We worked hard to move into a better town where she could transition to the public schools. She was a part of our family in every aspect. She came on family trips to Disney and annual family vacations to Sea Isle City. She has been on excursions to Baltimore, Washington DC, and Boston. She has been with us as a family to Phillies games, Eagles games, and Notre Dame Football games. 
 
 Caitlyn became involved in various activities once she was school aged. She participated in dance, track, soccer, cheerleading, softball, basketball, pottery classes, voice lessons, and piano lessons. Once she was old enough, we found a summer camp that specialized in drama and music. She attended this camp for 8 summers, and also joined their show choir. My ex-husband and I were not one of those divorced couples who had to keep going back into court to decide who would pay for all of these activities. We put our differences aside and did what was best for Caitlyn. We were parents first, and we made sure she had everything she wanted and needed. 
 
 I can say with certainty that Caitlyn was a child who needed strict rules and guidance. Early on in high school, Caitlyn went to the beach for a day with one her friends. Caitlyn and her friend lied to the friends parents about “walking on the boardwalk” and instead went to a hotel room with a group of boys where they drank until Caitlyn blacked out. I realized then that I had to be stricter about where Caitlyn went and how long she could be out. 
 
 Having grown up with two alcoholic parents, I feared that the genetic disposition may have skipped me and went to my daughter. This fear rose again when at 17, Caitlyn and her friend snuck alcoholic drinks from the kitchen of our shore house when we were on vacation. And again, when at 18 she was driving with a half-full bottle of rum in her trunk. I was even more concerned when she admitted to smoking pot and driving home afterwards, telling me it “wasn’t a big deal because she wasn’t really high.” 
 
 When these things happened, my ex-husband and I again put aside any differences we had to do what we thought was best for Caitlyn. I continued to be firm about curfews and checking in with me, and we put her in counseling and attended family sessions with her. We were worried about what would happen if she went away to college. We agreed that attending community college while living at home was the best choice, and we worked out an agreement to pay for this education in full (again, without involving the courts… we were able to come to an agreement on our own.) 
 
 I came up with the idea of the Disney College Program. I thought it would be a great opportunity for Caitlyn to prove to us that she was ready to go away to school. I advocated for Caitlyn and convinced my ex-husband that this would be a good experience for her, even though she would only be able to take 2 classes that semester. The Disney parent information brochure made it very clear that interns under 21 would be placed in “Under 21” dorms where alcohol would be prohibited. Caitlyn’s father and I put out a great deal of money for this program. I purchased luggage, linens, and kitchen supplies and paid her first month’s rent. He bought her airfare and flew her down, and provided a hotel room for the first night until she could move in. Imagine our horror when after only 3 weeks, she was kicked out of the program for underage drinking (although at first she lied to us about why she was kicked out, claiming she was sleeping while her roommate had a party. Turns out, Caitlyn had the party and her own roommates reported her). Once again, we feared for Caitlyn and her future. It was time for some “tough love.” 
 
 We came up with a plan for Caitlyn when she came home. This plan included a full-time job, household chores, a curfew, and for her to register for 3 summer classes to make up for the wasted semester. The only part of our plan that she had a problem with was the 3 summer classes. She chose to move out of my house instead of following the rules we established. She packed her things, and moved into her paternal grandparent’s house. 
 
 I was very clear with Caitlyn about what this would mean for her – her father would no longer be required to pay child support, I would no longer have the money to help her pay for college, etc. More than once, I told her that she could come home. She didn’t want to. She wanted to live without any rules, with basically no contact with either of her parents or their families, and she wanted her father and I to pay for it. Within a few months of living at her grandparents, Caitlyn retained a lawyer and sued her father and me for college contribution (and a new car.) After over a year of court appearances, certifications, and family mediation, the Family Court in New Jersey found in her favor. We have been ordered to pay the balance of her tuition at Temple – approximately $16,000 per year. The court did not seem to care that she applied to only one school, or that she left community college without finishing her Associates Degree, or that we told her repeatedly that we simply cannot afford out-of-state tuition. Her bill is due in one week. In one week, I am supposed to come up with my share of $16,000 (my ex-husband is responsible for his portion as well) for an adult who has no relationship with me, my husband, or her brothers. Caitlyn has not been to my home since the day she left (in February 2013) despite the fact that I have continued to invite her to family functions, send her cards, gifts, poems, pictures, etc. She doesn’t want a family; she wants money. And the courts have told her that this is completely acceptable. 
 
 I have been following Caitlyn’s activity for the past year and a half via Twitter and Instagram, as that is the only way I can be apprised of what she is doing. I am worried that she still has not learned her lesson about alcohol consumption, as prior to turning 21 last week, she often posted about tailgating at concerts and college parties, and once again I find myself fearful for her future. While suing me to pay for her tuition, she purchased a brand new car. She posts pictures of her manicures and new outfits from high-end retail shops. She got a tattoo. She complains about her professors. She complains about her job. She has learned that there are no consequences for her actions. She has learned that if she doesn’t get her way, she can sue. I am worried that without any parental guidance, she will continue on this path that I know will not end well for her. 
 
 Although Caitlyn may think she won, no one won this court case. This is a family that has already lost so much. I have lost my child. We lost the moment Caitlyn’s grandparents helped her hire a lawyer to sue her parents, instead of telling her to come home and work it out. These are people who have undermined my parental decisions repeatedly throughout the past 20 years, despite the fact that the only reason they even have a relationship with Caitlyn is because of me. Because I put Caitlyn first, and allowed her to continue to visit with her grandparents despite my ex-husband’s objections. My reward for being the bigger person is having them pay for my child to sue me. 
 
 I worry about what to tell my two young sons. Will they get the message that when they are 18 or 19, they can move out, refuse to follow any of my rules, have no relationship with me, and still expect me to support them financially? 
 
 I want to help support Caitlyn, not just financially, but in every way a mother supports her child. I want to continue to be a parent to her. I want to let her know that a parent establishes household rules to protect her children, and that a parent has a right to expect that those rules are followed. I love my daughter, and want only what is best for her. The court system may think that it acted in her best interest, but it simply fed into this “age of entitlement” and I am fearful for the future for not just Caitlyn, but for all of our children.
– When young adults in the US reach the age of majority, they take on full legal responsibility for themselves and can do fun things like vote, sign contracts, and open bank accounts. In Japan, the same milestone means they get hit with rent charges and manifestos from their parents on how they're pretty much on their own now. At least, that's the case for Japanese Twitter user @zamayuma1004, who tweeted photos last week of the special gift his mom and dad presented him on the occasion of his 20th birthday (the Japanese age of majority). Beautifully wrapped in an envelope tied with red and white string was a letter titled "Notice of Expiration of Child-Rearing Services," and its contents proved the parents weren't messing around, RocketNews24 reports via Curazy, Japan's BuzzFeed-style site. "As of October 4, 2015, your father, Yoshikazu Hasegawa, and mother, Chiaki Hasegawa, have completed their duties of raising their child: you, Yuma Hasegawa," the letter reads, per a RocketNews24 translation. "Going forward, please become a proper and responsible member of society, like your father and mother." It then offers a bulleted list of advice for the new adult, including that Yuma pay into his pension, "not drive while intoxicated," and discuss any future possible wife with them or they "may not emotionally accept" her. They also mention the $168 they expect for rent and other household expenses and note that "should you ask for a loan from your parents, interest will be charged." "Please enjoy your life as an adult," the note ends. Meanwhile, Yuma insists his parents are just joshing (kind of) and that he's been contributing monetarily to the household since last year. (Centenarians probably won't be getting fancy birthday gifts in Japan anymore.)