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I know there is no magic ball to tell us this, but what would the expected impact of a strengthening yen on major international Japanese company stock prices in yen . Your Toyota, Takeda, Sony, Nissan, etc. Companies with the majority of their business done outside of Japan. These companies are also...

I went with a local builder while a friend used Ichijo. We're in the same area with similarly sized houses. My cost was around half of his. I don't have any particular complaints about my place or builder, they did a good job. But when I look at my friend's place, the fit and finish, attention to d...

We actually went with a small company that is no longer in business when we bought 22 years ago (didn't have a choice since we were buying the new house as they finished it and the area we wanted has extremely limited supply). In retrospect I would have preferred to go with Mitsui if there had been...

We also built with Hebal Haus, since our land is in a very dense area in the city. I'll always remember the photos after the earthquake in Kobe where a large area had burned, but the Hebal home was still standing. (This was also the case when there was flooding in Ibaragi). Both Hebal and Sekisui a...

Mitsui-built home owner here, very impressed with their houses. Going round any housing estate, there definitely is a Mitsui style which you can easily tell. In the same way I think there is a distinct Daiwa style- very plasticky exterior. We went for the central heating through ventilating shafts,...

Built with Hebel Haus several years ago. Thought about the central heating stuff, but we like to just open the windows in the hot months, and wear lots of clothes during the cold months, so we passed on the central heating options (actually our Hebel Haus advisor didn’t even suggest it given the wa...

Looking at building a high-quality home in the next year or so and have started talking to some builders. We've spoken to a number of the big ones now. Probably looking to build in the Shonan, Chiba (Tokyo side), or possibly Karuizawa area. Ichijo - Entire house floor heating sounds awesome, but I'm...

Hi - the company I work for decided to go from public to private and I was forced to sell all my stock options. I got a little over 300,000 yen and now because that is over 200,000 I need to file a kakutei shinkoku. I've been through the government sites and I have the e-tax software installed and a...

Hi,

Just been looking at bonds on Rakuten (モルガン・スタンレー 米ドル建劣後債券 for example).
I can't quite work out the difference between 参考年利回りand 年利率...

If you can explain that would be great...

Thanks!

Yeah - that's good advice. Most of the sites I've been looking at state the management fee flat out so that's good. I'll watch out for taxes too...