This American is Buying a House Near Tokyo 

I will buy the first one...i like the barn and the fields around

The first house is my pick but I would have to see the third house again. Brandon and I have the same interests 😊 I would ship my tools and yard equipment to Japan.

If I had even failed at being a streamer in the 2020s it would have been a successful life overall to settle down in something exactly like this. lol

hell no, the 2nd property they could get in later in the vid, is by far the best one. Renovate those empty tatami rooms and you got a beautiful western style family house, with a good enough size garden that could also be renovated for a nice american style bbq garden.

Great insight!

I agree. I hope Shu learns that just watching house tours is probably best suited for his shorts, but for his vlogs, probably building a story works better (maybe waiting for an ending to publish would be best as well, but a P2 is fine I guess).

@@longtermerr Yes, getting an idea of one's one options as one is watching the videos would be nice...

I think so too!

I agree!

Best of luck!

Yeah my guess is he'd like a second home for vacationing in Japan. The flights from Korea to Japan are so cheap that it'd definitely be worth it.

Hope you enjoyed it!

I agree!

Best of luck!

That's a great idea!

Thanks for watching!

土地が広い(700平米)のが理由ですね。田舎の700なら地価は低いですが、春日部市はさいたま都心や東京都心に近い郊外ですし。価格の決定要因は土地の広さと、立地ですね。築年数ももちろん要因の一つです。東京のど真ん中の何も建ってない狭い草むらが2億円くらいしますから。結局は立地です。

​@@user-cp3ip3rw7rthnx for the info. Arigato.

You can fill out one of these forms so I can help you: Akiya Income Generator (for rental properties): forms.gle/7ySUCdpiLVy9mHoy9 Japan Akiya Assist (for vacation homes): forms.gle/1A7FHHJxqHfuuUjh7

Best of luck!

National guidelines state that the obligation to notify of suicides is generally three years, but legally there is no deadline. Buyers have the right to know accurate information about the property, so even if three years have passed, you may need to answer questions when asked. There is no obligation to notify of natural deaths such as death from old age or illness.

Theres plenty of equivalent stores

@@jrmayberry3536 but what about laborers? Looks empty in those suburban parts..

@@krillin876 i live in the deep countryside of Japan and there are excellent craftsmen and their prices are good. japan's entire economy is based on the constant tear down and re-building of houses.

@@jrmayberry3536 - Yea, Toyota Teardowns are Tops, and Mazda Makeovers are Marvy.

I think so too!

​@@shumatsuopostwhich house did he pick

Thank you!

I think in 1 and 3, you could. Probably not in 2, since it's in the city. 1 and 3 are more rural.

Finally…common sense

of course, but you could only stay 3 months at a time unless you have a work visa or spousal visa

If a Japanese company gives them a job

Only 3 month visa if you have a job or wife spouse

Errrr if you click on the center of the video you can stop it and enjoy it as much as you want without to give order to someone

How much is that in usd

@@xxneggalee2785 $266‘000 and some change. The Anton in Japan guy bought his House in central Tokyo for arounds $45‘000 but had to put some effort into renovating it.

​@@xxneggalee2785$266,682.43 USD

​@@xxneggalee2785 265 000 dollars

​@@xxneggalee2785errrr... easy to find on google...

Love to hear that!

Was my question right away....

Yes pady fields

Unlikely - that's why the garage was torn down. The vid. creator mentioned "the garage".

@@speaksthis just seems like a good way out of a very nasty situation. but maybe I'm too accustomed to east europe

Population collapse.

So you can be: The Bony King of Nowhere - Everybody Knows (Official Video) undayrecords

Won't matter. Competition will keep rental prices low and speculators won't be able to occupy rentals with overpriced rentals in a declining population market. Foreigners may buy up properties that locals don't acquire off market, but they aren't getting the "cream" of properties.

If not a structural beam, easy to remedy.

Heya, buyer of the house here. I work online/from home, but have hobbies that would bring me into Tokyo multiple times per week (Magic the Gathering, music, language exchange), as well as friends in the area, so some proximity to Tokyo is nice and practical for me, but in general I'm a stay at home guy. The difference between an hour or so to meet up with a friend, and two hours really starts to add up as 4 hours round trip vs 2 hours round trip is quite a big difference when planning the day. Also there will be 2 occupants in the house to start. As far as the concrete jungle feel, I've already thought about how I'd change some of that up in the coming years, especially if I'm able to buy/rent any of the surrounding land that is designated as farmland. That kind of gate and concrete wall seemed to be a status symbol of yore that doesn't interest me much tbh. I'd rather have trees/shrubbery instead and will probably shift to that route over time. Definitely not buying my first place in Japan to generate any kind of profit. Just looking for a place I actually want to spend time in and around, and if I end up hating it, it doesn't feel impossible to at least rent it out down the line (even if it isn't rented out profitably relative to my "investment"). We were able to talk down the seller a bit in price too, and Shu and I will probably follow up with another video in the future!

@@SmartYouTubification -- THANKS for replying. I hope all is well with you. I work online/from home, but have hobbies that would bring me into Tokyo multiple times per week (Magic the Gathering, music, language exchange), as well as friends in the area, so some proximity to Tokyo is nice and practical for me - so not a big issue, that traveling distance a couple times per week. Rural peace. But in general I'm a stay at home guy. - Me too. The difference between an hour or so to meet up with a friend, and two hours really starts to add up as 4 hours round trip vs 2 hours round trip is quite a big difference when planning the day. - Your choice. Just my opinion that ¥23m. is a lot of extra to pay for 4 extra hours over a week's time. As far as the concrete jungle feel, I've already thought about how I'd change some of that up in the coming years, especially if I'm able to buy/rent any of the surrounding land that is designated as farmland. That kind of gate and concrete wall seemed to be a status symbol of yore that doesn't interest me much tbh. I'd rather have trees/shrubbery instead and will probably shift to that route over time. - Me too. Good luck figuring it out and doing the changes to make it look like "Green Lake" ;) Definitely not buying my first place in Japan to generate any kind of profit. Just looking for a place I actually want to spend time in and around, and if I end up hating it, it doesn't feel impossible to at least rent it out down the line - My point there was that the diff. in ¥ price would, if taken, generate cash that could be used to your benefit if you can be happy in the "Akyia" place in the video. Even if it isn't rented out profitably relative to my "investment"). We were able to talk down the seller a bit in price too, and Shu and I will probably follow up with another video in the future! Nice to talked it down. Your choices here, of course. All the best with the new place.

@@SmartYouTubification what kind of visa are you living in japan on?

Does speaking the truth make you "right-wing"? First of all, can you provide evidence (not testimony...) that the Nanjing Massacre happened? And regarding Korean comfort women, watch this video (with English subtitles) titled "Korean = Chicken? What Korean Men Were Doing if Comfort Women Were Abducted?" and can you refute it?

Korean comfort women were people who gathered in response to recruitment. Some women may have been sold by their families. Japan outsourced the recruitment of comfort women to Korean organizations. There is no evidence that Japanese people or the Japanese military abducted Korean women. More than 90% of the comfort women for the Japanese military during the war were Japanese women. After the war, Japan paid a large amount of money as economic cooperation at the request of the Korean government according to the Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea, and economic cooperation funds were supposed to be paid from that to the Korean people, but the Korean government did not do so. The Nanjing Massacre is a propaganda that the Chinese Communist Party started to spread a long time after the war. The population of Nanjing increased the year after the Nanjing Massacre took place. The Japanese government offered to conduct a joint investigation with the Chinese Communist Party twice, but the Chinese Communist Party refused to cooperate and fled.

@@aoiumi6393 , there is overwhelming evidence of both forced enslavement of women during the war and of the Nanjing massacre. The Japanese military had a history in China of extensive rape, so the military (this is documented in official records) set up ‘comfort stations’. It is correct that many Japanese women did this. It is also documented that many of those did not do so by choice. For anyone who cares to read it, Wikipedia has a very good source that includes many scholarly citations. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_women Nobody likes to think that their country did horrifying things but we must admit that such things occur. As someone from the U.S., I too have to admit that my country has done horrifying things. I would never stay in a U.S. chain, for example, if their founder wrote a book left in all rooms claiming that the U.S. never intentionally bombed civilian populations in Japan or (closer to home) never destroyed Native American groups. The problem is when we fail to confront our history and learn from these past crimes.

You may not know this, but the Nanjing Massacre was only recorded in Chinese history textbooks in the 1978 edition, and before that, Chinese people were unaware of such an event. This was testified by a Chinese person in his 50s. When the Japanese army arrived in Nanjing, the number of Chinese civilians was about 200,000. This is consistent with all records (both Westerners and the Chinese Nationalists who were there). The Chinese Communist Party claims that "over the next two months, the Japanese army massacred more than 300,000 civilians," but no records show that the number of Chinese civilians has decreased. Many personal crimes committed by Japanese soldiers have been witnessed, but on the other hand, civilians testify that "the Japanese military police were cracking down on those crimes." The 20 Westerners who were in the middle of Nanjing were free to go anywhere, but all they witnessed and recorded were "personal crimes," and not a single Westerner testified that they saw a "large-scale massacre." Today, the Chinese Communist Party, Iris Chang, other Chinese people, the Western media that buys off their claims, and people like you firmly believe that "the Japanese military massacred more than 300,000 civilians." However, this is most likely an exaggeration of the actual number of casualties by a factor of 100. Even the German John Rabe, who recorded the most detailed account, puts the number of casualties at "about 50,000," and this figure includes the large number of Chinese soldiers who died in Nanjing fighting the Japanese Army.

I should also add that Mao Zedong never once uttered the words "Nanjing Massacre" in his life. Even Chinese scholars reluctantly admit this. Mao Zedong was the "leader of the wartime anti-Japanese movement," but he seems to have been less interested in Nanjing than you. Furthermore, regarding the issue of Korean comfort women, there are two key documents on the matter: the "US military report" and the "diary of a Korean merchant." This diary is a detailed record left by a Korean merchant who collected Korean women and did business with the Japanese military. These two documents describe Korean comfort women as "prostitutes who made a lot of money." Now that's bad. According to your definition, they are also "Japanese right-wingers." First of all, of the 20,000 comfort women during the war, 3,000 were Koreans and the rest were Japanese. In other words, 80% of comfort women were Japanese women. Even Western historians are unaware of such a simple fact. A common trick is to confuse "individual crimes of individual or groups of Japanese soldiers" with the work of the Japanese military as a whole. For example, there is the case of Dutch women in Indonesia who were forced into prostitution. The Japanese military command at the time deemed this to be "illegal" and arrested and punished the Japanese soldiers who carried it out! However, what is puzzling is that the Western media reports on the first half of this case but ignores the second half. "Kim, the brave Korean comfort woman who first came forward" initially testified that she was "sold by her parents," but when the uproar began, she began saying that she was "kidnapped by the Japanese military." You probably don't know this at all, but at present, a dozen or so Korean historians claim the following: "There is no evidence that the Japanese military kidnapped Korean women (because Koreans were Japanese at the time). No one has witnessed or recorded such a scene, including in the personal diaries of Koreans at the time." "Some Korean prostitutes were merchants who recruited women through illegal means." "The group that forced elderly women to testify that they had been kidnapped is related to North Korea and a communist group." You may not know this, but North Korea has announced that "the Japanese military made 200,000 Korean women sex slaves," while officially announcing that "the US military made 1 million Korean women sex slaves." As usual, NTY and others report the statements about the Japanese military as "true," but completely ignore the statements about the US military. Finally, I would like to add that Western historians and journalists are not as fair or professional in history as you believe them to be.