A former SIA stewardess contacted me out of the blue and asked me to help her move to Japan. Somehow she knew I am residing in Japan and having a good retirement life and wanted to experience it too. She is in her fifties and a retired business woman. She is divorced and has grown up children. She loves the onsen (hot spring),food and weather etc in Japan and wanted to leave SG and resides in Japan.
I heard from the grapevine that a foreigner need to deposit about S$300,000 in an approved Japanese bank (something like a FD in SG) and may be allowed to buy properties like houses and land and given a year visa (renewable) to live in any part of Japan.I told her it was difficult for her to live in Japan as she can't speak nor write Japanese. I am facing this difficulty but thanks to my Japanese wife I am getting by. Without my wife I am lost as I too can't speak nor write Japanese. It is a known fact that most Japanese do not speak English especially those who live in small cities like where I am.
This may sound odd because even a small thing like switching on the heater or air conditioner correctly can be a difficult task. I don't even know how to use the dual heating or air conditioning system because the instructions are all in Japanese. Turning on the cooking stove or micro wave oven can be stressful. But she still insist on coming to Japan. She told me she could use the Google translator to help her. Sounds easy isn't it? I did try using the translator but again it is so stressful.
After some sound advice, she told me she will contact me again. So far she has not contacted me and I assumed she won't be coming to Japan.
Modern houses in suburban Japan cost about 400k SGD each
This Toyota Prius is about 3 million Yen or S$30,000
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