Arnulfo Torres comments

Posted in: Japan issues rules for companies hiring foreigners via new system See in context

If workers cannot finance their travel expenses to return to their countries after their contracts expire, employees should shoulder the cost.

EmployEEs should shoulder the cost!? Shouldn't it be the employERs? or am I getting this wrong?

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Posted in: Japan issues rules for companies hiring foreigners via new system See in context

Is there not a great reluctance of Japanese landlords to rent to foreigners? 

Indeed there is. I had a hard time finding accomodation for my MEXT scholarship in Japan, because, unfortunately, my university was rather small and didn't have dormitories, so I had to search for apartment from abroad before arriving Japan. This was a nightmare since they ask for so many requisites and initial payments including deposit money, insurance, house cleaning, key and lock changing, broker's fee and even things that don't even make sense like the "Gratitude" money or Reikin and you never see that money again. This makes it absurdly costly (and I wasn't even in Tokyo) to move to an apartment that doesn't even have furniture or even a bed to sleep in and is ridiculously small, which, having to buy all those things makes it another thing you have to worry about economically speaking. They certainly don't make it easy and they don't really care that you are just a student. Also, many landlords simply don't want to have anything to do with foreigners and reject them right from the start. I was only able to find something because I speak and read Japanese fluently, but still, they asked me to pay all the 6 months worth of rent that I was planning to stay in that first apartment while I looked for something better, including ALL initial payments and fees because, as I wasn't a national and didn't have insurance, they couldn't trust that I would pay in time or that I wouldn't just go back to my country leaving the debtd unpaid for (which I understand to a certain extent, but still...). Lastly, most of the time they will tell you "sorry, but we don't lend apartments or houses if you don't come physically to see them first or if you are not already in Japan", which, as I lived in Mexico at the time, was kind of impossible. It was a shock to see how hard is the process to rent anything in Japan and how long it takes when in Mexico you can do everything in a day or two, no questions asked. Also, what they don't tell you is that, scholarship or job, they won't pay you until after the first month in most cases. So all the heavy part of the first payments and surviving that first month pretty much comes from your own pocket! (I guess in the case of a job they at least give you some sort of support, but still, it's better to be sure to have plenty of savings.

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