Then not knowing procedures or having a Hanko is extremely detrimental to doing any paperwork in Japan.
Internet is not an issue, NTT will give you internet within 3 months, and there is always unlimited 4g/5g subscriptions.
Being in the Inaka is an experience itself, and you need to know the language. I agree.
(I would note that white people aren't likely to be hardest-hit by these "restrictions." Consider which ethnic groups an elderly Japanese person would remember directly fighting against in a previous war. Those same elderly Japanese people now form the inaka's governments, so AFAICT those same ethnic groups are most resisted.)
You're right, in that the people holding grudges today aren't likely to have directly experienced these events, but more likely are those who saw their fathers/brothers shipped to the front and never return, and so who hold a vague-but-strong grudge against whatever nebulous enemy the Japanese propaganda machine represented as being on the other side of those particular battles.
(Sadly, this can be a stronger foundation for xenophobia than actually having fought an enemy corps-a-corps, as these folks have never actually been exposed to the experience of seeing enemy soldiers hurting/dying, grieving, wishing they weren't at the front, and just generally being human.)
You were saying? 2+ million 90 year olds in Japan. Maybe not old enough to have fought in the war, but definitely old enough to remember the bombings, for example.
Not impossible, but quite unlikely.
Do you have a reference for this?
In the early 2000s I spent a cumulative ten months out so bicycling along Japan, attending graduate school, and being well-cared-for by strangers (I’m a male from the US with Western European ancestors). Several hosts who had ancestors from the mainland (Korea, China) said life in Japan was the more difficult for it.
They don't speak to the particular law, but they are speaking of the patrilinear transmission of Japanese-ness. I'll keep digging - my source was a Zainichi family in Japan in 2004.
I was not aware of NTT getting you internet; thanks for that info!
I seem to recall the wireless unlimited plans being rather expensive, but it's been a while.
Yes, Japanese government is it's own special issue. Hanko being an always fun issue for people!
I absolutely LOVE being in the Inaka. When my in-laws shut down their business they moved a little ways out, and we regularly visit their family friends in the mountains at their Onsen, which is a solid 40 minutes from anyone else at all.
It is much easier if it has a pre-existing phone line active, or sometime per-existing. Considering these properties were most likely occupied during the 1970's-1990's, a phone line most likely is present so it is on the "books" as serviceable.
If not, you get the phone line service first if you must.
Alternatively you can also look in TOWNPAGE for the address and see if it shows up.
Absolutely no requirements besides an email, and money.
(I don't understand why their isn't more of an uproar, especially when the stock is so low to begin with, and housing is our biggest expense.)
When in doubt, think money.
It's always money.