Hey,

Thought I'd follow up with the latest news: I just received a Corporate AmEx gold today. It took a little over a month from I applied until I finally received the card. There was a space to...

I don't understand this logic: By the same logic I would not be interesting to any CC company as a private customer because of low turnover.

I meant to set the card up so that the monthly payment would be deducted directly from our corporate account.

As I said, I use my personal card currently: I pay in advance for something for the...

I applied for AmEx too, and I am still waiting for a reply (a positive sign, I suppose). They had an area in the application form where you could fill in your personal AmEx number too, which I also...

Connecting a personal card to our corporate account won't look good on paper, and I'm pretty sure the bank wouldn't even allow it. I can use a personal card to pay for stuff on behalf of the company...

What's a Smith Franchise?

A debit card would be ideal... but I haven't been able to find any corporate one. (Lifecard and Rakuten Bank seem to have private debit Visa/MC, but not business...

Hi,

Does anyone here have any experience with getting a corporate credit card in Japan?

I have just set up a Kabushiki Kaisha with a friend of mine with a capital of 1 mill.

I am the...

Zen Cart (http://www.zen-cart.com/) is a very popular open source shopping cart system. To use it you will need web hosting that allows you to do PHP and mysql databases.

There are Japanese...

Seems my paranoia was unfounded. It took a while for them to pay up, but I just got my entire deposit (minus cleaning fee as stipulated in the contract) back. I moved out in the middle of the month,...

All these horror stories are making me nervous...

I had a look at my contract, and it basically says that normal wear and tear should not be charged. A cleaning fee is stipulated. Apart from that,...

I guess some clarification is in order:

- The apartment is in my wife's name (Japanese), although my name is also in the contract
- It's in Tokyo (Tama)
- It was completely new when we moved in,...

Hi,

I'm about to move within Japan for the first time. I've heard many horror stories
about people not getting their deposits back, so I'm getting a bit nervous.

Is there anywhere I can refer...

Thanks for the info, I guess there's a good chance the the amount I plan to transfer is below the limit. Probably a good idea to get some professional consultation before transferring anything as...

I have some money from inheritance (in Norway), that I plan to use to buy an apartment in Japan (in total about 10 percent of the value of the apartment).

Will I need to pay tax if I bring this...

Hmm... I have browsed around quite a bit in Akihabara, but never seen anything but Japanese exword models.

No, nothing like that at all. I want a _Korean_ model Casio Exword. Those models have completely different content from the Japanese models (specifically, they have Korean-English)

If the comment...

Could anyone recommend a Korean webshop for electronics that ship internationally.
I want to buy a Korean model Casio Exword electronic dictionary and have it shipped to Japan....

I think citibank is the best bet for getting a credit card (visa). I just got mine quickly and painlessly after being declined other places. I have a marriage visa, but a friend of mine got the same...

My reasoning was simply that there are lots of places that sell various coca cola products imported from the US, so why not coca cola blak as well... afaik there's no Japan-produced black cherry...

That depends on what you're referring to, but I did buy some coca cola blak in Hawaii a few months back. Unfortunately I didn't bring back more than a couple of day's worth.

Really, there must be...

Doesn't quite work... you have to get the ratio right, and then figure out what other strange additives they put into it.

Because it's a combination of my two favorite non-alcoholic drinks?

Hi,

Does anyone know a place where you can get Coca Cola Blak in Tokyo? (Or in a Japanese webshop)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_Bl%C4%81k

I already used that to get married in the first place. I assume I don't need to bring the same document again since I am already married.

Hi,

I'm currently in Japan on a one-year work residence permit that will soon expire (status is intra-company transferee).

I married a Japanese national in August, and I want to change to a...