RetireJapan

Can you check on your pay slip? It is usually listed separately there, if you are paying monthly.

Also, to get the subsidy from the ward (ku) in Tokyo, you have to be registered with that city. Maybe an English service to senior day care centers in cities with large expat populations might be a better fit...(kind of like sending English teachers to pre-schools etc.)

Also, I have a feeling that the houses that are shown in downtown Tokyo are built on land where the house cannot be torn down and rebuilt, only remodeled. The videos show very little access, and I think that the entrance has to be like 4 meters to allow a house to actually be rebuilt on it.

So if you want to, you just upload a 3000 yen gift card to your account and you are not having to worry about registering your credit card or bank account card...

So sorry this happened. I hope that you get your money back. I am paying for Apple icloud storage with a gift card. You can easily add money by buying a new gift card at Family Mart when the amount gets low.

A neighbor, who owns their land, was going to do this (tear down a single family home and build a 4 story building with maybe 12 small apartments. They had the plans all made before COVID hit, and they eventually had to cancel because the construction price increased to almost double. As people have...

Hopefully you can get everything worked out. It sounds like a nightmare. You will want the employer health insurance for sure because the company pays half of the fee, so it's much cheaper for the employee, but the actual insurance specification is the same as the national health policy (30% co-pay ...

Take the postcard that you are sent, along with your old license and I think you foreigner ID card, money, and a photo. They are kind of picky about the photo so it might be better to have it taken at the renewal place. During COVID, they didn't let you renew at the local places (usually near the po...

You can get a new Japanese passport in about one week, although it might take a little longer since it expired...

That's true. I have no legal background at all.