Car insurance in Japan

We recently bought a second-hand minivan and in this post I’ll describe what I learned about car insurance, and our experience signing up for one.

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Caring for the land: from buying it until the construction starts

We are currently building our home in Tokyo. I wrote about our process and the costs associated with buying the land and the process of designing our house, and in this post I’ll describe how we cared for the land from the time we bought it to the time construction started.

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The price of a second-hand car in Japan

So we recently bought a second-hand minivan. I thought the price of the car will be simple: there might be some negotiation, but otherwise it should be a simple number, right? Well, it’s more complicated.

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How to buy a second-hand car in Japan?

So we recently bought a second-hand minivan, and in this post I’ll cover the various options on how one might buy a second-hand car in Japan. (This is based on my limited research, so I could have missed somethings. Feel free to correct me in the comments.)

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Choosing our family car in Tokyo

We recently bought a minivan for our family, living in Tokyo. In this post I’ll cover how we chose the type of car that we bought.

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