Earlier this year the government announced an economic relief fund as part of measures to deal with the impact of COVID-19. Every resident in Japan was eligible to receive the ?100,000 payment, but not everybody felt that they needed the money.
Trishit Banerjee, a chemistry masters student at Tohoku University, first moved to Sendai from Mumbai in 2015 to study. Currently on a scholarship program that means his tuition and living expenses are covered, he didn¡¯t feel the financial pinch felt by others due to the pandemic.
¡°I didn¡¯t really need extra cash to pump my wallet,¡± Banerjee says. ¡°At that time I was reading how other students and people all over Japan were financially affected by this pandemic.¡±
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