01 Feb 2026
| #housing
| #japan
We recently bought land and built our home in Tokyo. I wrote about the general design process, and in this post I will write about how we decided our lights. We have moved in 2 months ago, so I will also reflect on how well our ideas are working out so far.
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28 Jan 2026
| #housing
| #money
| #japan
We recently bought land and built our home in Tokyo. I have wrote about the various costs, but in this post I’ll provide the full breakdown on how much our home cost.
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27 Jan 2026
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| #japan
We recently built our home in Tokyo with Ichijo. One thing that surprised me was that the house maker companies only build the house itself, and leave the outside construction to another company. This was the case with Ichijo too, so we had to arrange the garden with another company.
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20 Jan 2026
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| #money
| #insurance
I recently decided to get life insurance (収入保障保険), but I couldn’t complete the sign-up online. This is the second part of this story, so I recommend reading part 1 first.
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19 Jan 2026
| #tech
I recently got myself a Buffalo LS720D NAS, thanks to furusato nozei. I looked into how to get root access to it, and it seems like an older method still works now.
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