I'm not sure how much you've read up on the Investor Visa requirements (sounds like you have though) but just wanted to drop a couple of links here for you as well that might help.http://blog.gaijinpot.com/understanding-japanese-i...https://www.techinasia.com/definitive-guide-japan-...Regards,Walter

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I am in the process of buying my 1st property but i have a hit problem on the tax front.I am currently a sole trader and if i buy the house a rent it i will go over my tax band and have to pay 52% on the rental income?

Flipping homes would get you tagged as an active trader, although I think there is some dispute as to what that threshold actually is.

While I agree that this is a bad move, I remember back when I was growing up in the 90's there was this big fear that Japan was going to buy up all of America, especially after a Japanese businessman bought the Seattle Mariners.

Tax deed auctions are interesting Ive only acutally attended two one in a local I say metro area and one out in the country.In metro areas there seems to be buyer groups that have big bucks ready to plop down by the end of the auction or before the clerk closes that day(some say 24 hours) So if your trying to out bid them on something they want forget it.You'll see one guy who will spend maybe $300-400,000 sombody else may do the same.But out in the hinterlands they ususally don't go but there are local horse traders that know a good deal and have deep pockets.

I speak pretty fluent korean, ****** "currently studying here at school" japanese, and of course native english. my girlfriend is Japanese so she speaks native Japanese, good conversational korean, but probably couldn't translate at a hospital or Dr's "I've studied 5 years she's studied about 2", and she speaks great english, so between us we've got no problems with those 3 languages.

But, the bank says that it has no authority to influence the financial bonuses of the traders who were involved in the scandal.

There doesn't seem to be much improvement in the economy, although I heard the Case-Schiller index did show some increase in housing values this time...Whatever one thinks of welfare programs, we don't currently have the necessary social safety net to support 8 or 9% unemployment as the "new normal" in this country, nor do we have the high personal savings rate that allowed the Japanese to get through their lost decade.

My husband and I are relatively new to real estate and very new to Boise (we moved about six months ago when I came to help open the new Trader Joe's downtown).