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Home Truths, July 2017

Here’s this month’s housing column about new laws that will affect renters.

Also, today’s Japan Times has a good feature about renting to foreigners.

Home Truths, Sept. 2012

Posted on September 4, 2012 by catforehead

Here is this month’s Home Truths column in the Japan Times. It’s about guarantors, one of the many irritating requirements of renting property in Japan. For related posts from this blog, go here, here, here, here, here, and here.

Blacklist blues

Posted on August 15, 2009 by catforehead

According to a front page story in today’s Asahi Shimbun, a group of 15 nationwide “yachin hosho kaisha” (rental guarantee companies) have gotten together and at the end of the month will start compiling a blacklist of rent scofflaws. Read More