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haha OK, but for just a simple bank account with a well design app in English, plus English speaking branch staff in an emergency...it does the job?

Thanks for the reply deep blue! In the end I went with Resona - seems their app has won some design awards and some branches have English speaking staff...so should be good. Will see how it goes!

Hello all, Update here! Just to be clear, this didn't happen through my own personal apple account. It took place through several fraudulent Apple Store accounts across the World (and Japan) but all used my card. In fact I didn't even store this card on my Apple account. It's still a mystery as to h...

To be honest I have no idea how they got the details. I use the card on Amazon JP, my local supermarket, perhaps my local cafe and also bought a journal from an online store, 'intelligent change.' I think that was all powered by Shopify so everything should have been secure. I'll just never know. Lo...

Thanks for the responses guys! It seems like this apple thing isn't so uncommon. From what I could ascertain from hours and hours of phones, different 'senior advisors' who kept no notes from call to call, the only reason they refunded some of the items so far is because they took place in apple sto...

Hello everyone, I admit, I have procrastinated for many years in find a bank account that works for me. I come from the UK and miss services like Starling Bank, integration with quickbooks and the ability to automate so much with excellent UX design. I know that's a tall ask here in Japan! I arrived...

Hello everyone, It's my first time posting here and unfortunately it's not through the best of situations! Recently, over the course of 72 hours, 308 fraudulent transactions took place from my GMO personal bank account. The fraudsters were able to completely clear my bank account of 870,000 yen and ...