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Bad-mannered tourists cause chaos at new Mt Fuji viral photo spot, city erects fence to stop them

• Oona McGee
  Jun 1, 2024
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Fuji City’s Great Dream Bridge becomes a nightmare for local residents.

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• (bad manners • Fuji • Fuji City • Instagram • Living in Japan • Mt Fuji Great Dream Bridge • Mt. Fuji • news • overcrowding • overtourism • social media • TikTok • tourism • tourists • tourists site • travel)

Japan apartment hunting – Can you find cheaper rent by avoiding the peak spring moving season?

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 14, 2024

With tons of college students and office workers looking to move at the same time, is dodging the “new lifestyle” season a smart move?

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• (apartment hunting • apartments • COK • Living in Japan • moving season • new lifestyle season • shin seikatsu season • SNJO • society)

Number of foreigners working in Japan hits all-time high, 25 percent come from same country

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 30, 2024

Study shows often overlooked prefecture has second-highest number of working foreign residents in Japan.

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• (foreigners in Japan • internationalism • Living in Japan • society • working in Japan)

Moving to Japan as a foreigner to work as a taxi, bus or truck driver may be getting easier soon

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 14, 2023

Japanese government looking to open a path for immigration to Japan to work in transportation sector.

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• (buses • COK • foreigners in Japan • Living in Japan • society • Specified Skilled Worker • taxis • travel • working in Japan)

If you have an apartment in Japan, your “fire disaster insurance” may also be toilet insurance

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 4, 2023

Got a busted toilet in your place in Japan? Check for this before you pay the whole repair bill.

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• (apartments • COK • Insurance • life hacks • Living in Japan • SNO • Toilets)

How to convert a cheap car into a Japanese taxi…with tape and a wild imagination

• Oona McGee
  Sep 4, 2023

Like a really bad, cheapo episode of Pimp My Ride.

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• (cars • COK • country life • driving vehicles • Go Hatori • Japanese cars • Japanese countryside • Japanese house • Japanese taxis • Living in Japan • real estate • SNJO • SoraHouse • taxis • video)

Japan’s Japanese population dropping in every part of the country, foreign population rising

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 28, 2023

Study shows fewer Japanese living in each and every prefecture, opposite for foreign resident number.

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• (ageing population • birth rate • COK • foreigners in Japan • Living in Japan • shrinking population • society)

Can a Japanese lawyer help stop a neighbor from getting our reporter’s bike all wet?

• Master Blaster
  Jul 14, 2023

There ought to be a crime.

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• (apartments • bicycles • crime • law • lawyers • Living in Japan • parking • Yuichiro Wasai)

A beginner’s summertime survival guide to Japanese air conditioners – 4 tips to fight the heat

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 13, 2023

Summer in Japan will always be hot and humid, but your apartment doesn’t have to.

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• (air conditioner • heat • hot • humidity • interior • life hacks • Living in Japan • summer)

We buy a cheap Japanese mini van to go with our crazy cheap country house 【SoraHouse】

• Oona McGee
  Jul 3, 2023

A new set of wheels for a new season at the SoraHouse, our cheap country home.

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• (cars • COK • country life • driving vehicles • Go Hatori • Japanese cars • Japanese countryside • Japanese house • Living in Japan • property • real estate • SNJO • SoraHouse • SoraHouse Season 2 • Vans • video)

Turning a crazy cheap country Japanese house into a home Season 2: So much poo!【SoraHouse】

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 17, 2023

The SoraHouse project is back, and first things first: there are entirely too many dead bugs and animal droppings in our country home.

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• (cleaning • COK • crazy • Go Hatori • gross • Living in Japan • SNJO • SoraHouse • SoraHouse Season 2 • video)

Laughing out loud at the property tax for our ridiculously cheap Japanese country house【SoraHouse】

• Casey Baseel
  May 19, 2023

How much is it costing us to be the proud owners of the house we bought for less than US$9,500?

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• (COK • crazy • funny • Living in Japan • SNJO • SoraHouse)

Kyoto may be getting more modern, tall buildings as city relaxes development limits

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 28, 2023

Change highlights the two contrasting aspects of Japan’s cultural capital.

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• (COK • culture • Kyoto • Living in Japan • society)

Here’s one of the first things you should do if you just moved into a new apartment in Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 14, 2023

Sharp idea for spring could be a lifesaver come summer.

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• (air conditioner • clever • COK • heat • interior • life hacks • Lifehacks • Living in Japan • Sharp)

Japanese moving company scam? The time we almost called police on a removal rep

• Oona McGee
  Apr 6, 2023

A warning to anyone using a moving company in Japan. 

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• (apartments • COK • crazy • life in japan • Living in Japan • moving • moving companies • moving from Tokyo • moving to Japan • police • removal • SNJO • weird • Yuuichiro Wasai)

Apartments with no bath or shower rising in popularity among young Tokyoites, report says

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 23, 2023

No bath, no problem?

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• (apartments • baths • Living in Japan • public baths • sento • society)

Japan’s new micro-houses want to be your home away from home on weekends, but we’d stay all week

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 10, 2022

Having a house built for the price of a car? We could make that lifestyle work.

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• (cool • houses • Living in Japan • micro-houses • microhomes • minimalism • minimalist lifestyle • nature)

Why is Osaka “the most livable city in Japan” according to a recent survey?

• Master Blaster
  Jul 6, 2022

It’s a great place to live, but I wouldn’t want to visit there.

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• (city living • Global Livability Index • Japanese cities • Living in Japan • Osaka • ranking • society)

Getting a driver’s license in Japan the hard way — Part 5: The second written test

• Master Blaster
  Jun 17, 2022

Once written, twice shy.

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• (cars • COK • driver's license • driving • driving exam • foreigners in Japan • Getting a driver’s license in Japan the hard way • Living in Japan • Osaka • police • SNO • society)

How much money do you need to live in your own apartment in Japan?【Survey】

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 1, 2022

Think living in Japan is crazy expensive? Think again.

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• (apartments • COK • Living in Japan • moving to Japan • society)

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