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The biggest one is they require you to lose your previous citizenship. For people from the 3rd world, this is a not much of a big deal but I know this trips most Westerners up. Because you're American, there's the incredibly onerous penalty they make you pay to remove US citizenship (which is a requ...

There is nothing stopping you from using the Growth portion like an extension of your Tsumitate and have long-term mutual funds there. In fact, that's the prudent choice. You're quite young so I won't try to dissuade you from trying your hand at the market but my recommendation is to just use the re...

I work in a quite large and well-known Japanese traditional company and have been involved in interviewing the new grad hires for entry into our department. Unless HR weeds them out way earlier than I think possible, there is absolutely no issue that someone took 5 years instead of 4 to graduate. Ge...

Angel Zeisei is another way to reduce taxes. https://www.angelzeiseifund.jp/ This is one of those things that sound like a lie/scam but is apparently true(?!) Angel Investment Deduction https://www.chusho.meti.go.jp/keiei/chiiki/angel/structure/index.html I assume the standard for getting the deduc...

It definitely shows up on your record as outstanding debt. Not sure if it's considered a black mark or not but best case is the bank sees it as neutral and not positive that's for sure. I would recommend to paying it off as early as possible before applying for your loan. The loan process, much like...

That said, if you can get a provisional agreement with an attractive lender ahead of time, you could avoid this kind of 2 million refinancing fee which I suppose is partly what I paid for being lazy in the first place. That’s not how I did it, but I gather you can get a potential lender lined up ah...

It seems like most people are looking north (Saitama) and east (Chiba) nowadays since west/south (Yokohama) is tapped out. Less than 1 hour to Shibuya for less than 100M seems really unrealistic to be honest. Maybe somewhere towards the Hachioji area would be possible for a house? A mansion for 100M...

Where in Chiba is this that SMBC doesn't have a branch close enough? Or do you mean Prestia?

Have you tried the Net banks? SBI or AU Jibun are well known and active in giving out mortgages.

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I took a look at the source and you have the basic tags but having og:image is a good idea

I think we need to be careful with calling them "legitimate" dual nationals though. As we have covered here, technically you're not allowed to be dual national. It's only the vagueness of Article 16 that creates the legal grey zone for kids born with both nationalities. For all we know, th...