Serious Thread. (lots of benefits of an address for you guys in Japan)
Thinking of locating multiple satellite Pokemon offices in Japan.
The opportunity is great with real estate in Japan, May have some type of write offs for 2024 taxes.
Would be interesting venture based out of Japan.
IDK.
I have
The prices are ridiculously low. Looking for âdeductionsâ before the year ends.
1 hour max from major Airports would be ideal.
we already have Tokyo covered.
But Osaka also?
Nagoya ?
Iâm not at that level nor do i plan to be, but it does sound really lucrative to have access to local shops and sellers.
Trust is a big thing
Try finding a place with Mail/amazon âboxâ. So bigger items can be deliver when you not there.
The address allows you to get ID card,etc.
Real estate is so cheap. Hopefully the laws change AFTER taking the opportunities available.
i donât think the average E4 user is scheming where to set up a global pokemon enterprise. Iâd venture to guess youâre one of like 5 people on this forum who sell in any sort of volume where it begins to make sense to have multiple bases.
Anyone can dabble in setting up in Japan.
Rent first, $300-500 can get you an apartment in Tokyo. You can have a Japan address. Place to stay, store your Pokemon items in Japan until the market makes sense to bring back to USA>
IT IS CHEAP right now.
anyone can dabble in setting up in china. more people
The culture , laws , money (none, all digital loaded) , are very different.
Not as easy in China vs Japan.
Try loading your digital currency card in China. You need a bank account in China, but you first need an ID, but to get an ID, you kinda need a bank account also. âthe chicken or the eggâ in China.
Stick to Japan
Good luck getting an apartment in Japan with those specifications while being a foreigner. It would make more sense to rent out an office space or use a proxy than do it yourself. (Which most people do anyways if they are going to have any kind of source in Japan)
All foreigners can own property in Japan. Just to be safe, foreigners should use an Japanese agent when purchasing in Japan.
For reference.
Nephew rents a really nice house for $1500 in Yokohama. My son rents a nice apartment in shinagawa for $750 (40m2)
Just a older âofficeâ small studio in centralized tokyo runs about $400.
Iâd like to start a cafe or steak house in Japan⊠That way all the artist visit me and give me shikishi boards as gifts.
Can you help me do that?
or, just sign up for a proxy address and avoid all this troubleâŠ
I have a friend starting a cafe, itâs a lot of work but definitely doable
This thread and TP having been living in my head rent free for some reason. TP feels like a Japanese AI psy op to get people to move to Japan and see how they interact with AI in a forum. This guyâs (or galâs) responses just donât feel real to me. It keeps me up at night when I know it shouldnât. When I am on the verge of slumber, quotes like âthe chicken or the egg in Chinaâ tug me back awake. Itâs a problem.
I know this isnât serious but I think the average life span of a restaurant/cafe business in Japan is something like two years. Most fail unfortunately. Seen plenty of bars and restaurants where the owner did their best but the location and pricing were not ideal and that basically killed it from day one.
Yea, but if Matsuko Deluxe eats at your place once youâll have a line at your door until the end of days
Just edit your ignore list and you wonât have to worry about certain posts interrupting your good night sleep, since you wonât see them in the first place 
(the thread title doesnât match what was written inside the opening post or any of the replies from the same person anyway).
My answer to the title was a definite yes since I did move to Japan and expanded my collection after all these years due to easier access to cards, but as soon as I saw the creator of this thread I realized this is going to be a thread about sourcing for supplies instead of sourcing for collections, so I gave up trying to understand what each post implies. Understanding the posts wonât help me find the cards Iâm collecting.
Serious answer: Chicken or egg also exists in Japan since you need a Japanese phone number to rent a place, rent a place to complete household registration and a household registration to apply for a Japanese phone number, but thereâs always a way to break that kind of cycle (in my case I talked my landlord into âlending the addressâ for registration).
Agreed that Japan is very cheap compared to America. Rent for a shitty one bedroom is 500 dollars. I once rented a place in Fukuoka for $200 a month.
Cards are also relatively cheap here. I see no rarity 9s going to 50 bucks on merukari. Unfortunately my wife wonât let me buy anymore lol
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