I've been appointed as a Web System Engineer in a Japanese company from last year April 2023. I haven't been assigned a single task till now which make me super frustrated. Going to office and sitting 8-8.5 hours has been a very tough thing for me. I asked them why is such scene going on as they always say you'll be soon assigned in a new project but it's a year i have been like this ?? I belong from a country named Nepal is it that they hire me for a very low salary and they don't give a shit about me and my value in the company????

Been living here for 2.5 years, and I decided to try and make more friends by going out there and actually talking to people

I've tried bars, meeting through an internet forum, a couple other things. Sit down with someone on a counter or a cafe, talk, get to know each other, have fun. Trade Line, plan another day to meet up, go grab dinner again, nice. All good.

And then all of them are either 1. Business manager/proprietor or 2. Is trying to start a business/company and is learning about management from a friend. They're like "oh you should read this book, and create a list of objectives about what you want to accomplish in life, your dreams, your hobbies" blah blah blah. Like, I just want friends, I don't want to invest in something or join seminars that I have no interests in.

I don't even know if it's a scam or not, but I'm trying to stray away from it because it's simply not what I'm looking for in a friendship. But I've met 5 people so far and 4 of them swerved the conversation into that topic on the second meeting.

Anyone have any experience with these particular types of people? What are they trying to achieve, and why do they seem to be so common in Japan?