We are currently building our home in Tokyo with Ichijo. I wrote about the cost of our house before, and in this post I will cover the payment schedule, and how the bridge loan (つなぎ融資) comes into the picture.
Read moreI’m hosting this blog on GitHub Pages, but wanted to give readers the option to subscribe to new posts. I recently changed how this is done, and I will cover it in this post.
Read moreWe had our first child 1.5 year ago in Japan, and she started nursery about a year ago. Now that we are expecting our second kid, it is becoming painfully clear how hard the Japanese system is for working mothers who want to have more than one child. This was especially surprising for me, since the declining birthrate has been a major issue for Japan for decades, and all levels of government is trying to solve it, but still the end result is a system that pushes mothers to choose between career or multiple kids.
Read moreWe went through finding a nursery for our then 8 months old daughter last year, but I haven’t wrote about it yet, so here it goes.
Read moreWe bought a land in Tokyo in May last year and are currently building a house. A few weeks ago (about 1 year 3 months since buying the land) I received a letter from the Tokyo tax office titled 不動産取得税の申告, Real estate acquisition tax return. But I’m already paying property tax (固定資産税) to my local city every year, so what’s this then?
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