RetireJapan

Hi TokyoSurvivor, very sorry for my late response, I asked my friend who asked a colleague and so on …… :D , unfortunately that office was also overloaded. Finally she sent me a link to another one this morning. Not clear to me if he can converse in English though. Good luck, it may take some time; ...

Our private university cost about 1.4 Mio per year, plus entrance fee (300,000?). For the (privately organized) year abroad, we had to pay around 150,000 to secure the place. I generally agree with the estimate for private. ¥6,000,000 for tuition, plus books, transport and food costs. Add xxx if th...

I know someone who switched - unplanned - jobs about 5 months after the application was handed in. Luckily he had employed an immigration lawyer (administrative scrivener they really are) and they took care of informing immigration/preparation of additional documents required. It altogether took alm...

For public HS there used to be a monthly fee of about 10,000 if you were above a certain income, possibly they abolished it. Otherwise - similar to public MS - besides the school uniform, the sports uniform, the sports club uniform (if applicable) and one school trip (this time abroad), and where ap...

I am sorry, the two question mark emoji in my piece should have been smileys, but they came out wrong as I copied them from outside instead of selecting them from here. Lesson learnt.

Our non-Japanese children went the public route, as we were both working and needed to keep it „simple“. One had almost no problem and lots of friends, the other had a horrible experience, especially during Junior High. As s. o. pointed out there are so many factors you cannot control, so it is almo...

My information may be outdated, as it has been a number of years, but the basics should be the same. Our then 3 year old, was accepted into the (public) day care/hoikuen, shortly before I started my one year maternity leave for child number 2. The only rule was to pick him up daily around 16:45. Aft...

I am not quite sure if the property you mentioned first, was one in Japan, if yes you know the process, if no: I am not experienced with privately arranged transactions of property and would likely refrain from it. While the route via a real estate agent is a bit more costly, (a certain percentage o...

Our two (fully foreign) children moved out last year and this year. In both cases, parents being the guarantors never came up as an option. The guarantor for both is a company and of course it cost extra (maybe a one time fee of 20,000 Yen or so). A real estate agent I know said this is common pract...

We went the public route, but from friends I know that the following additional costs normally occur for private education. As your yearly estimate is quite high, maybe you took part or all of it into account already, so just in case: Private from JHS: - Juku from grade 3, 4 or latest 5 including ex...