Not much, but to be honest No Such Thing since there's lots of Facilities all around the Town area of Wards itself and it's walking distance.
So mostly Apartment/Mansion are only have house.

But here are the terms in Japan, the usage for accommodation :

Apartment - アパート (A Paa To.), is a typical Apartment or House. Mostly made by wood. Very common all around Japan.
Mansion - マンション (Mahn Sh-on), is like Malaysian's Condominium. It's a cement building, modern and mostly new tall building. Some of them have Facilities like Gym and Swimming Pool.
Serviced Apartment - サービス・アパート (SaBisu aPaTo), majority of this Apartment/Manshon taking care by certain big real estate company have facilities like Swimming Pool or Attendance in Lobby. Mostly those 10% of Japanese Population who can afford (or no other place or land to stay, celebrities etc..) will stay.

Either you have to find an Apartment/Mansion where there's a nearby Municipal Wards Sports Center where you can go to Gym and Swimming (It's cheap! 200yen, depends location thou).

Flanegan Do you think you could copy the format or something like the working in singapore thread and replicate it for the working in japan thread?

Gambling is illegal in Japan. There is a lot of pachinko around but technically they are not gambling. If you have seen the news a few of their badminton players was ban from playing because they visited some illegal casino. They was a plan previously to actually setup a casino but I think that discussion have stalled.

Pretty much depends on your budget Japan is not like Malaysia where space is a premium here. If you have those facilities, be prepare to pay a premium not only in rent but maintenance fees. There might be some apartment with swimming pool, but tennis court, I am not too sure.

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Will try my best..

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In Japan, even if you are a part time staff, you are required to pay for employment pension (usually 8%-10% of gross salary).

What if a person leaves Japan subsequently? Does he/she got to wait until 50 y/o then only can claim, or he/she can make lump-sum withdrawal upon leaving the country?

This post has been edited by z21j: May 3 2016, 12:15 AM

Any chance to work in Japan without Japanese language?

MNCs

English teacher but you need to be from "English speaking country"

Basically, there is no job that does not require Japanese at all. If there is, you will still need know some Japanese to live there.
If you got some special skills or knowledge, that Japanese don't have, then that is a different story.

Thanks for the info guys, seems like 0.09% chance

That is not really true. Alot of this so call part timers are not paying to the employment pension which is one of the main reason the pension system is close to collapsing.

The pension system is not like our EPF. Its more similar to our govt pension scheme where you get monthly allowance after you retire. You need to work a certain numbers of years (I think its 26 years now) before you are eligible to get a monthly pension. If you do leave Japan, with less than these numbers of years, the most you get back its just 2 months (if not mistaken) of your last drawn salary.

If you never try you never know.
Admittedly most foreigners I know here are being transferred from their parents companies in their home countries, but there are one or two who actually travel to Japan and found a job/wife here and settle down.

Ok. Thanks for the explanation. Which part of Japan that you are in currently?

Currently in Tokyo。

used to dream to work in japan after graduated in 2013.

but now i'm exhausted working in sg. the desire is evaporating.

If u were given a chance now will u stil got over?

I can vouche OP info on black company lol. I worked in one for almost 3 years at a Game Company (lived in Japan for 5 and a half year)
Fark black company I hate em.

Also I'm one of the one that dont have a Degree but still get to work in Japan.
Loophole : You need a certificate from a Japanese college (senmon-gakkou) 2 Years minimum.
Then you can work in Japan but there is limitation as you can't work outside that certificate specialty. If you got Comp Sci, then you can't be Salesman.