In-depth guides and local insights from our team in Japan.
In this article: Introduction In 2017 a Japanese railway operator published an apology after one of its trains left a station twenty...
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In this article: Introduction Japan is conspicuously clean and has almost nowhere to throw anything away, and visitors correctly identify this as...
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In this article: Introduction The most common way a foreign visitor fails to get into a Japanese gym has nothing to do...
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In this article: Introduction Japanese medicine is excellent and the administrative arrangement for a foreign visitor is unusually blunt: you are outside...
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In this article: Introduction A ¥120,000 apartment in Tokyo will cost you somewhere between ¥500,000 and ¥700,000 to move into, and roughly...
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In this article: Introduction There are no mandatory vaccinations to enter Japan. Nobody will ask for a certificate at immigration and there...
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In this article: Introduction Japan’s reputation as a cash country is about ten years out of date and still partly true, which...
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In this article: Introduction An American licence in Japan is worth exactly nothing by itself. The rental desk will not argue with...
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In this article: Introduction There is no 911 in Japan. There are two numbers, and dialling the wrong one costs time you...
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