I’m Canadian and my husband and I just watched your vid of another Canadian couple buying property. We are now feeling more confident that we can actually afford our dream house.
I like the idea of buying a house (or apartment) which needs a bit of renovating then using it as a base to stay a few months at a time. It is just a dream, but I like the idea :)
I do it in 3 or 4 countries But buying land in Thailand or Vietnam is tough without locals u trust. I have rich trustworthy friends in both countries. Also Comany A can lease from company B different partners If one of your partners is strong like a general or minister, no one will mess with u.
I LOVE Japan when the weather is good about 5 or 6 months max unless u have multiple locations U can learn enough spoken Japanese in 2 years with reasonable effort Understanding their unique culture takes much longer. Just be soft spoken, polite and respectful Avoid arguments and confrontation. Understand many of them have fewer options and flexibilty than most rich foreigners you can quickly fly to Korea, Guam, Saipan or the Phillipines for a visa run.
I would bring my expertise as doctor of Chiropractic which is rare. I already have busy visiting practices in Tokyo and Osaka. I would also like to teach at the chiropractic college and continue do trainings, sessions and retreats. I need to learn to speak Japanese better. I love visiting and sharing my gifts with the Japanese
As someone with a Japanese degree.... and am worried about the American economy (rent etc) I've been reading japanese real estate listings all covid and getting my pets ready to go to japan. I'd like to buy an akiya and look for a job in Japan. I'm planning on taking advanced Japanese classes to pass n1.
Yea I would! 😁. I’m learning kanji now and have sentence structure down and a lot of vocabulary. Ima apply to a Japanese language school and do a 2 year. I invest in stocks day trading so that’s my income. After 2 years of language school maby I can do another 2 years since I want to be very Efficient 🤓😁😎. I have a small crowd of Japanese friends online and their in Osaka so I’ll study there😁😎🤓
What will you study there and it’s my last year in high school so how can I become a teacher like do they have college there or should I graduate in my country as teacher and apply to them please answer ??????
@@haidermahdi8552 im going to study Japanese at a Japanese language school. I have 59 credit hours from Oklahoma state university so if I decide to I can finish my degree there. Your young so you’d want to look at a college in america with a foreign exchange program with japan. Language school costs money, I’m seeing 1,500,000 yen for 2 year language school in Osaka Japan. And they’ll help you find part time job. But at your age you’ll want a degree and the language school is strictly language. University there would require a strong understanding of the language. It’s ok though, your young. With out a lot of wealth it’ll take you time to go to Japan if your wanting to stay longer then a vacation and earn the money needed to live an American lifestyle there 👌🤓😎.
@@haidermahdi8552 so the Japanese language school I found for 2 years is 11,000$ without your apartment and food costs. And they train you to pass the Japanese proficiency tests that certify you know Japanese. The jobs take extra skills so that’s why going to university with foreign exchange and the chance to learn Japanese for credits is the best route. Then you can come to Japan with your degree or working on your degree and earn your degree with credits from learning Japanese . I’m 30 and have income outside of a job so I can just pay for the school and my living expenses. It’ll take focus and constant planning for such move. It’s a migration 🤓😁😎
Thank you so fucking much buddy that helped me a lot thanks for your time I really appreciate you so all it takes its to learn full Japan language and English and I can do my degree there and become a English teacher also I can do it in my country right? and I’m applying to purchase a abandoned house there I also have another question
How do the change of visas work? If I wanted to come over initially with a wealthy tourist visa, and then apply for a digital nomad visa, can I reapply after the nomad one expires to the tourist visa? Essentially extending the stay by 3 months, and applying to the tourist visa again for another year? How can one who is a entrepreneur stay in Japan long-term if you don't want to start a business? Additionally, for any of the visas I've listed are you able to bring your spouse with you or do they need to apply for their own visa?
I'm very keen on buying an Akiya to be able to stay in Japan a few months a year and rent it out when I'm not there but I saw another vloggers youtube mentioning there's a few hoops to jump through to be able to do that as your property is generating income....your thoughts ?
First, thank you for your video and awesome English, I would like to move to Japan and buy 2 akiyas, will renovate and make it airbnb and live on the other one. Do you think its achieveable. Planning in less than 4 yrs, I downloaded your free buying akiya home and will read and start the process when possible.
Thanks for watching! Yes, it's definitely achievable. It all depends on how much capital, time and effort you would be willing to put in. Also know that you can only rent out your AirBnb for 180 days out of the year based on Japan's short-term rental regulation. Feel free to reach out if you need further help - we offer service to help foreigners buy houses in Japan.
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One big reason why you should NOT move to Japan: For Work. If you're coming from the West and think you'll make just as much or more in Japan...you won't. You'll almost certainly make more money working in your field in America or England or almost any other Western nation rather than Japan, and you'll probably have more opportunities for career advancement. If you can move to Japan and find your own way--start a business, be a creative (artist, musician, podcast, RU-vid, etc), or work remotely for an international company--then it's worth it. But don't move if you're not willing to take a massive pay cut from what you could be making elsewhere. Now...if you don't care about the money and truly just want to sustain yourself while living in Japan...one other way to get a job without knowing Japanese is if you are a software engineer. There is a large demand for developers in Japan, and while knowing Japanese will certainly increase your chances of finding a job, there are still a number of jobs that you can get as long as you can demonstrate that you have a high level of skill. Finally, with the Student Visa, it should be noted that if you are trying to go as a student of a Japanese Language School, you can only work part time for up to 27 hours/week. You MUST go to school and pass; if you skip or fail out, your Visa will be revoked. So you'll need to be able to support yourself on a part-time salary while also going to (and paying for) school, and that can be hard unless you have a scholarship and funds saved up.
Thank you for another excellent video. I am sure I have seen this one, but its good to revise again. As much as I would love to move to Japan, I just dont see how it would be possible mostly becuase of the Visa situation... I have good qualifications with a Bachelors and a Masters in Engineer as well as a university teaching degree. I am a highly skilled professional (HSP)....engineer in IT and earn a good wage. My Japanese language skill is low...but I would work hard to bring this up to the right levels. The only downer I have is my age....Im 56. Based on the guidelines I have seen would I even be given a chance ?
Hi shu, I have question and I would love if you can answer it might help me since I’m planning on moving to Japan next year, I work from home remotely doing engineering, so I’m not planning on work there what’s the best visa for people in my situation I can apply for ?
Ima stretch the student visa to four years if I can 😁. Take it really slow and excel you know 😎🤓. 2-4 years of that should have me feeling out Japan 😎🤓👌 I wanna see Colombia and Brazil and Thailand too 😎 but Japan is where ima do long stays at , like a home base sort of speak 😁
Here you go: Import and export. Agriculture. English language schools. Restaurants. Real Estate. Alternative Medicine. Drone services. Massage and salon.
As a foreigner, as long as you are aware of that you are not wanted in Japan and they will make anything harder more than necessary in many aspects of life to make you leave, you can give it a try.
Homogenous Culture, "gender inequality" topic are both what make other countries seen as inhospitable. Even the most neoliberal Western anthropologist will throw in their hat at times and admit there is a lot of sociological benefits Japan has due to its homogenous makeup. In fact, if you celebrate Japanese culture to some degree, it is largely due to the homogeneity of tens of thousands of years. Japanese makeup would be entirely different, linguistically speaking either Mongolian script or Mandarine by now with a nice touch of Han culture. It's a post-modern Western ideal to believe a homogenous society to be perceived as a negative - assimilating into a homogenous society may have its consequences per se, but it should be accepted. This all ties to sociological arguments of diversity, but it's clear as the West is failing in real-time, homogenous countries prove to be sociologically stable. "Change" and reform for Japan would be no different than saying destabilization to allow for foreign value systems, and superficial societal and social constructs that are actively contributing to incivility and record political division in industrialized first-world societies like the West. Anyhow, some other great points were made. Good video
There's a lot of merit to your statements, but it's never, ever that simple. You're talking about complex societies made of hundreds of millions of people. There ARE a lot of benefits in Japan's homogenous population, but it also creates a lot of issues at the same time. Japan's culture stays in tact, its society knows exactly what is expected of them, and it just so happens to be a place where people care more about sustaining the harmony of the environment rather than doing what might be best for themselves. This means everyone knows their manners, there's very little violent crime, and it's probably the cleanest country of that size on Earth. That inherent unstated societal agreement can be contributed, in part at least, to the homogeneity and isolation Japan has had over the centuries. At the same time, Japan's birth rate is among the lowest of all developed nations, they're a rapidly aging population, a rapidly urbanizing population, and a rapidly declining population. Being resistant to outside influence means that certain facets of society will utilize the same practices that work until they literally cannot anymore. As such, their business use outdated products and practices that have, at one time, contributed to an entire generation being left out of their society even to this day. And not allowing foreigners in means that there's no one to make up for, or help form novel solutions to, any of these deficiencies. The West isn't failing, either, it's evolving. There are a ton of problems, but there's also a ton of innovation, and the opportunity that people find in moving to a western country usually comes from the idea that those opportunities don't exist in their own countries. There's definitely good and bad in all aspects of all nations and societies, but I don't think one outweighs the other. Now you might, and that's fine, I'm not actually trying to change your mind on anything. Just always good to get a different perspective on things.
@@CreepyBlackDude I studied Sociology and still keep up with certain anthropology journals so I appreciate your perspective all the same. A lot of what you said is also true. I appreciate the good-faith arguments. Here's my take. Depopulation topic: Yes, Japan is rapidly depopulating alongside China. That said, with exceptions, every top 25 GDP economy in the world is suffering from depopulation - but depopulation also has its benefits. Yes, pensions are undergoing a crisis in Japan, though housing is incredibly cheap and accessible throughout the whole country (housing is the #1 expense across the West with certain exceptions on healthcare in certain states in the US) and most Western nations cannot state the same. Inflation has constantly stagnated with Japan's deflationary economy of over 30 years. Wages in the West don't adjust accurately for all the inflation they suffer, thus housing, util, food, etc. have been rising for decades eroding the shrinking middle class in Western nations (many articles discuss and examine this issue). Don't get me wrong, Japan too, though non-comparable, making the West largely failing its middle class. Per Capita, Homelessness, Life Expectancy, Crime, Housing Cost, Drunk Driving deaths, Homicide, Civil Arrest (including Civil Arrest damages which private companies are paying billions for since the race riots in the US + France + UK, etc), Home Invasion, and Women subjected to Domestic/Sexual violence (United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)) Safe drivers, etc. have Japan ranked lower than most of their Western counterparts. For example, it's like 0.7 murders in Japan each day vs the largest rapidly diversifying Western country's 47 murders each day on avg and climbing (US). This is empirical data that should be celebrated and has some similarities with other homogenous nations in the East. It's also worth noting crime has skyrocketed the last 10 years across Western Europe and the US with both rapidly diversifying. For example, take the US, the Top nominal GDP for the West, and use it's CPI to calculate inflation from 30 years ago and what you have to make now to make comparable money and see how rapidly it's declining. (The CPI is actually showing you a skewed number since its statistical formula was altered in favor of a calculation to produce a skewed and lower inflation % by politicians in the 1980s and 1990s. Thus in effect, it's actually a worse number but that's another story). I get what you're saying, Japan is not perfect, but it's doing a lot right - and if it so happens to change, all the aforementioned good will change rapidly in Japan for little good. Humanity is also NOT perfect, but the rest of the diverse world has failed to produce results that challenge Japan in just two or three of these statistics at once.
Japan has 125m people. Land area squared is equivalent to Germany, population 83m, in size except most of that land is not habitable due to large mountain areas. Or an area similar to California 94% the same whereas California has population 40m. Human Footprint is in the NEGATIVE in Japan (as it is in other nations). Only 20% is suitable for food production. 4.1gha (global hectare)* per capita, about one and a half times the global average of 2.6 gha per capita. Japan's biocapacity was only 0.6gha per capita about a third of the global average of 1.8 gha per capita. Japan DOES NOT NEED MORE PEOPLE !!! It's needs to in fact REDUCE TOTAL POPULATION. Look at the stats and figures above provided! I do find the failure to provide the above stats then launch into gender "inequality" as measured by the Western world to be a red herring in terms of getting priorities right. If anything those gender equality measures in the West are CAUSING FERTILITY REDUCTION even more than just having a high-density economically stressed urban population of highly educated females in the population! If you look at the LIFE-CYCLES of Males and Females, the traditional societies have a more successful model than the current Western Secular Religion eg gender equality extolled by the United Nations. Eg look at Indians who have strong family units or Chinese with 3-generations living together: These groups tend to be the most successful diaspora across the world. The majority of woman at some point in their life want to prioritize having a family thus traditional roles tends at a population level to be a good guide to expectations: The work of a good mother in raising young children skillfully is enormously undervalues in the West an the result is massive increase in broken homes and single-parent families which in turn leads to higher dyfunction in the children. Again stats back this up as does observation. With that said, I entirely agree with the premise that if people want to move to Japan then the information provided here is constructive for that purpose. With that said, the requirements for living and working in Japan should be made clear how challenging it is compared to other nations: Language, culture and skills demand. However for the right people who are driven and have a high regard for the Japanese people and their culture, it is a potentially excellent choice: Japan is a high standards culture and that has enormous value for the future.
Japan needs more young people to increase their tax base, deal with national debt and devaluing yen and to contain the cost of medical care and insurance(residence tax) Wealth and estate taxes are best Capping business and real estate tax deductions Taxing sales of foreign affiliates whether in Ireland. Dubai or wherever.
The marriage idea how many years I’ll take to get the nationality and like can I pay to her $kk money and our marriage is just by the name until I get my nationality? Or they will check on you and they don’t allow stuff like that thank you ❤
I've heard that the US would check on that but I've never heard about Japan doing it. I hope you'll find a partner that you actually want to spend time with :)
If you marry a Japanese national, you don't become a Japanese national, you just get a spousal Visa which is easier to get than some of the other Visas.
Japanese naturalization process is one of the toughest in world. You'll need marriage/divorce papers of your parents, because a KOSEKI (i.e. family tree) will be created for you. Everything from the day you were born to present, you need to submit documents with a Japanese translation. Last year in 2022, there were 861 naturalization cases approved by the immigration bureau. In reality, most applications are not even allowed to submit until the requirements are met. It takes about 2 years for the entire review process. That is after 5 years of living in Japan, and certain amount of years married. They check everything from tax, social security, interviewing neighbors and colleagues...without stable income and language fluency, you cannot even submit your application.
Hi this is such a well organized video. In all honesty I've been wanting to come to Japan for close to 20 years now but life got in the way and I was living in Belgium and Canada for about a decade. I'm 39 now with both Greek (I'm Greek btw) and English as native languages to me. I also speak French at an proficient level. I am wondering what career opportunities I could find in Japan being that I'm willing to learn the language but don't speak it at the moment apart from very basic phrases and words? I wouldn't mind teaching English along with studying Japanese before I can work in a Japanese environment. My main goal, however, is going down the real estate investor route and hopefully get married to a Japanese lady and start a family there.
@@shumatsuopost life is funny indeed and always gets in the way. Just started a new business, retail store. Looks like I'm not going anywhere any time soon 🤣
Question. If a trans woman as in fully transitioned, body parts and everything decided to use the train in Japan, can they use the woman’s only train or are they gonna be discriminated and forced to use regular trains?
Do you know if there is any rent kano services in Japan for foreigners? Having a rental girlfriend would be useful for translating and companionship for single guys.
I'm sure there are many people in Japan who would be open to be with a foreign national. You'll learn Japanese from them and they can teach you English - win win?
Its good that you promote JP, we need more foreigners to fill the huge gap. When this happens, you will see plenty of opportunities and business enterprises. I might not live that long to witness it so 180 stay in JP is ok for now. Income in the US is better, JP is just my playing ground and maybe a deal here and there 😊
Sounds like a solid plan you have - I agree about the income. If you can get paid in USD and live in Japan, the money will go far with the weak JPY and lower costs of living here (for the most part)
@Shu Matsuo Post I'll be JP this June (maybe 2 months, depending on the deals), first 2 weeks will up North, Hokkaido, Sandai, Amori, Sapporo relaxing and enjoying onsen. After that heading back to Tokyo for 2 days meeting at Tokyo Baycourt Club with my investors for our venture in US. Than to Sakado to help out family business and relax. Maybe end it with JReast on for site seeing on JR Gran along the ocean. I don't know how we can conduct business, let me know and maybe we can meet up before I head back the US.
@@theinternationalist1357 Yes, I would love that. I am leaving Japan for 5 months in mid June though so maybe the timing might not work out but it if does, I'd love to meet up. Would you mind emailing me your contact info? shu@postfi.co
@Shu Matsuo Post yeah, the timing is a little off. I'll be back in JP doing the wintertime. Every year at least 2 times but can increase for 3 visits. I'll email you. Not US I have too much going in the US already. What do you have in mind for Nippon?
I'd like to move to Japan, right now I'm doing savings and a few investments to afford a decent renovation, but maybe my only concern is how to stay longer than 180 days, I work remotely as an artist and marketing consultant, I don't mind giving up my nationality because I'm not willing to marry in the next 7-8 years, if anyone can give me some alternatives those are very welcome and will appreciate a lot, is it a better option to find a job in Japan and hope for the best if they are open to help me with a working visa?
If you're already a freelance artist and consultant, I would try to find a job in Japan to get a visa. Worst case, you can sustain your lifestyle as a freelancer even if you don't find a job.
SENPAI Shu, does pewdepie get investor/ business visa?? He is a permanent resident there after a 1 year faster than anyone else. Is because of the investment (amount he invest) he did?
Not exactly. I would presume If you live as a resident in Japan with any type of visa you still need to pay your taxes regardless where your income comes from.@@yo2trader539I guess If you are travelling as a tourist (max 3 months) and working remotely you still need to pay taxes with your country of residency. If you are stateless then Im not sure how it works.
The best immigrants are Indian Hindus. They are being accepted as genuinely hard working, sincere, family oriented with no religious extremism of converting or extremism, which disturbs the local population. The world is realizing & US is openly talking about it.
That is certainly a interesting take altho depends really for any nationality not just for Indians . I absolutely agree on statement of extremism as born Muslim in a Eastern European at least on paper in Christian majority country , that forcefully using Violence or anything similar to that shouldn't be done or that way of explaining someone religion is totally wrong. That goes for all of religions be that Islam, Chrisanity,Hinduism etc. But on the other hand if I practice my religion not disturbing anyone else and someone takes a interest in knowing what I practice I'm going to help them no matter who they are to get to know what our teachings do and if they think it is for them and found the truth and answers, they can come join us freely no problem and nobody shall force them to do so. And that's unfortunately why people mix those that do bad things on our account or "in our name" that they see on Media and like say "Oh you are from them extremist who do bad things and such" I don't think all Hindus are bad ofc I have about 3-4 Indian online friend I talk to on daily through Discord and they are one of the nicest dudes I've talked to. I'm very open to conversing with anyone who is a good person in general. As in for Japan I am going to study there for a year in language school for a year so I'm hopeful to get good experience. Maybe if I find a potential job opportunities might stay longer idk. Let's see what future holds. As in if Japan is good even for me I would say definently cause as far as I've seen altho at least by law and in Public, they don't discriminate based on Religion, your nationality, allow you to practice your religion freely without much problems or at all, don't have a hard crack on laws that just targets you mindlessly,has a lot of religious places and organisations, has pretty decent amount of places catering to dietal regime etc. And I personally think that those who are not native to Japan should abide by Japanese laws and regulations. Respecting and integrating in what you can integrate properly if not possible to do something they do for a various reasons be it personal, religious etc. Then at least should respect their work and things. Shouldn't be shunned or made uncomfortable to do so. Overall I would put Japan over many European countries that is for sure. If we talk about East Asian or South East Asians then it would be there in a good place ofc but not as high as it would be compared to European ones.
