For foreign residents, life in Japan can be a roller coaster of ups and downs -- quite often at the exact same time.

Now, if you're paradoxed out by that clear absurdity, it means two things: 1. You haven't been here long enough; and 2. You don't yet know what true absurdity means.

So let me show you. Here are just a few cases of when life in Japan becomes both as good -- and as bad -- as it gets.