What to do in Japan?

What was an inconvenience for your life In Japan?

• And What kind of service were you willing to pay in Japan? Hi, I am Japanese guy thinking of having my business here in Japan for people from abroad. Japan is not multicultural as much as like New York or Vancouver Canada. There must have been unfortunately some moments you found something inconvenience with your life when you lived in Japan .(or you are living in Japan now.) ・What was an inconvenience for your life In Japan? ・What kind of service were you willing to pay in Japan? I am happy to read your opinion here . For your information, I have lived in North America for a year. So, I can a little understand how demanding and how fun to live in a foreign country. Sorry, my English doesn't really make sence sometime. Thank you for your reading.

• Answer:

  I was transferred to Japan almost 5 years ago. If I look back and reflect on our first year these are things we needed the most help. The biggest unknown was where to live and rent an apartment. Of course you must establish residency and bank accounts before you can rent an apartment. If I had an idea of where I should live and what size of an apartment I could find before I arrived in Japan, I could have made some decisions regarding what to bring and what not to bring to Japan. My suggestion is to work with the Japanese employer to decide the office location and possible areas to live in. That way you could provide some floor plans as a guide. Once we settles in, after a while We needed understanding how to use the medical system. In my case I asked people at work and they explained to me the process. In my case I could speak, read and write Japanese, but my wife could not. We were lucky to have a doctor in the area who spoke English. Kuyakusho help, Our local kuyakusho had an English interpreter avaialable, but for smaller places in the inaka or outside of the 23 ku's there is a need for someone to help with registering at the kuyakusho and asking for services or help. Help with establishing bank accounts. My company established an SMBC account for us, but we wanted to establish a second account with Citibank, as they have more branches in the USA and we could transfer money to the USA more easily. We had to do this on our own. A person who could have helped us establish a second account at SMBC would have made things easier. Help with establishing electricity, gas, phone and water services. In my case, the company provided us assistance, but without that help it would have been impossible for non Japanese speakers. A big help for some gaijin would be a person to help establish keitai, internet, SkyPerfecTV and IP phone services. Last, is furniture and appliances help. Again a person to assist in the purchase process and the delivery would help. If you combined all of these services into a single point of contact this could help any people who will transfer to Japan.