>>73147433a very, very quick cliffnotes is that japanese landlords refuse to lease unless you have a japanese phone service, a japanese bank account, a japanese person to vouch for you, and you can't even scope the place out remotely and HAVE to be there in person to both look at the place and to buy. And even then they fucking hate foreigners so they'll likely say no, even before adding in the "we need to be able to scream for our job at all hours of the night because we refuse to adjust our schedules for our ruffians" thing. It's fucked.
