living in Japan
living in Japan
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Renting / Owning
Owning is hard, near impossible here without a permanent resident visa status. And that status you might get after living- and working here for 10 years (might get it a few years sooner than that if you're married to a Japanese, but you still've got to have stayed for a number of years).
Renting is fairly easy. There are apartments just about everywhere. You'll be denied about 1/3 of the available ones because the landlords don't prefer stinky stinky barbaric foreigner (just like me).
You'll have to do a downpayment of about 4 months, where you might get 1 month back if you're lucky.Learn the damn language. To later forget it. Won't go into details, but you just have to trust me on that one.