Smith <fake@email.com> wrote:

> Louise Bremner wrote:
> > Smith <fake@email.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Is it possible to survive in Tokyo on ¥200,000 per month? 
> > 
> > 
> > Many, many Japanese people do....
> > 
> > But is this a salary you will receive as a foreigner? I thought the
> > minimum that the Ministry of Justice expected to see for a visa
> > application was 250,000 yen.
> 
> Part-time work, on a working holiday visa. After one year I would have
> to consider visa issues if I wanted to stay on.

I don't know much about the working-visa deal. Maybe someone can chip in
here with more help.

It looks to me to be a little tight, but do-able. (Especially if you can
pick up extra work on top of it.)

A couplathree years ago, I kept accounts for a while and reckoned on
spending 5000 yen a day on basics for the two of us (food and things
like toilet paper, but not including meat or booze or eating out). Maybe
assume that's 3000 a day for one person, times 30 days per month, equals
90,000 yen?

But I'd be very very worried about not having a little put by each
month, in case of emergencies. 
> 
> The rent costs I described was just an example I found at this real 
> estate agent:
> http://www.sakura-house.com/english/premise/machiya.htm
> 
> That apartment is 85,000 - 88,000 ¥

OK.... That does look like a good deal for a year, since you won't have
to worry about key money and things like that. 

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