[Lonthego]

The dollar is really sucking it against the yen right now so that's going to hike the price up as well. Why a house though?? I can understand for a family, even though a lot of Japanese families do live in apartments. You can usually get a nice apartment, good size (BY JAPANESE STANDARDS), mostly furnished, near a station and a short train ride away from a city center (except perhaps if it's Tokyo Tokyo) for around $1100-1200 a month utilities included.

If you don't mind furnishing it yourself, a bit cozy, living around 30 minutes away from a city center, and don't include utilities you can get it down to around $500/mo.

Sorry don't know much about houses per se but figured you should have all cards laid out