House prices are different from other things

We recently built a house in Tokyo, and it made me reflect on how house prices are different than prices of other goods.

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Miscellaneous expenses while building our home in Tokyo

We bought land in Tokyo two years ago and finished building our house in November last year. I wrote about the cost of the house already but there were some other miscellaneous expenses related to the house construction. I will cover these now.

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Choosing my life insurance - part 1

I wrote about the types of life insurance a while back and recently decided to sign up for one. In this post I will share my process of choosing it. Well, the first half of it, because in the end I couldn’t completed the sign-up online.

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Disability insurance in Japan

I wrote about life insurance a while back and getting ready to purchase one. When I asked about it at r/JapanFinance, multiple people recommended also getting disability insurance so I started a new thread about that, took a look into it in detail, and will be sharing what I found here.

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Curtains for our new house

We just finished building our house in Tokyo with Ichijo and had the handover at the end of October. One thing we had to get from a different company were the curtains.

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