{"id":5703,"date":"2010-01-11T09:59:40","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T00:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=5703"},"modified":"2010-01-11T19:55:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T10:55:48","slug":"mainichi-new-real-estate-guarantor-service-set-up-for-nj-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=5703","title":{"rendered":"Mainichi: New real estate guarantor service set up for NJ residents"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. \u00a0Here’s some information about Japan’s “notorious” housing rental market. \u00a0About how it takes an average of about 15 visits to a realtor before NJ can even find a place willing to rent to them! \u00a0And how the company offering guarantor services is having them pay handsomely for the services (says below about half their monthly rent up front — no small sum in places like Tokyo — plus a stipend every year thereafter). \u00a0Submitter JK adds additional commentary on how the hoshounin<\/em> system makes life difficult for Japanese as well. \u00a0Time to abolish it. \u00a0It causes too many abuses and justifies discrimination. \u00a0Arudou Debito in Sapporo<\/p>\n

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JK COMMENTS<\/p>\n

Hi Debito: \u00a0Here’s some good news for the new year:<\/em><\/p>\n

New real estate guarantor service set up for foreign residents
\n<\/strong> <\/em> http:\/\/mdn.mainichi.jp\/mdnnews\/news\/20100108p2a00m0na013000c.html<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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\n<\/em> http:\/\/mainichi.jp\/life\/housing\/news\/20100105k0000e040081000c.html<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

IMO, the best part is the first sentence: “A Tokyo non-profit organization has set up a new real estate guarantor service for foreign residents negotiating Japan’s notoriously discriminative housing system.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“Notoriously discriminative housing system” — Holy shit, some brutal honesty for a change! <\/em>[NB<\/strong>: \u00a0Doesn’t say the same thing in the Japanese article — Ed.] Funny thing is that I was watching a show on NHK the other day that talked about old people without kids (read: guarantors) having trouble moving in due to a lack of \u4fdd\u8a3c\u4eba. In fact, this has gotten to the point where the old folks are resorting to using something called \u9ad8\u9f62\u8005\u5c02\u7528\u8cc3\u8cb8\u4f4f\u5b85 (a.k.a. \u9ad8\u5c02\u8cc3) to bypass the whole \u4fdd\u8a3c\u4eba requirement! Sheesh!<\/em><\/p>\n

Anyways, allow me take the \u4fdd\u8a3c\u30b5\u30fc\u30d3\u30b9 concept a step further for a minute — thinking out loud, I wonder how “Japanese Only” establishments would react to serving NJs if some type of \u00a0guarantor service were in place similar to the \u5bb6\u8cc3\u4fdd\u8a3c\u30b5\u30fc\u30d3\u30b9 (e.g. an \u6e29\u6cc9\u4fdd\u8a3c\u30b5\u30fc\u30d3\u30b9). Your thoughts?<\/em><\/p>\n

Personally, the whole idea of \u4fdd\u8a3c (especially \u5bb6\u8cc3\u4fdd\u8a3c) is a turnoff for me (hey people, I am a big boy! No, really, I am! Sure, the need for \u50b5\u52d9\u4fdd\u8a3c is obvious as there’s typically non-trivial sums of money involved with loans). So I don’t find the idea of something like \u6e29\u6cc9\u4fdd\u8a3c particularly tasteful as it sets a bad precedent (i.e. the underlying assumption is essentially that the patron can’t be trusted — he\/she might commit an abomination like peeing in the bath thereby causing financial harm to the establishment). That being said, if there’s a chance to paint J-only establishments that refuse clients with \u4fdd\u8a3c as engaging in ‘unrational discrimination’ (ring a bell??), I can see how the \u4fdd\u8a3c avenue *might* be worth pursuing<\/em>. –JK<\/p>\n

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New real estate guarantor service set up for foreign residents
\n(Mainichi Japan) January 8, 2010, Courtesy JK<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/mdn.mainichi.jp\/mdnnews\/news\/20100108p2a00m0na013000c.html
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

A Tokyo non-profit organization has set up a new real estate guarantor service for foreign residents negotiating Japan’s notoriously discriminative housing system.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The service, the first of its kind, is set up by the Information Center for Foreigners in Japan and will start offering guarantor services in Tokyo and surrounding prefectures in South Korean and Chinese later this month. The services will later be expanded to cover people from English-speaking countries.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The service was set up after a 2006 questionnaire showed that foreign residents in Tokyo were visiting an average of 15 real estate agents [!!!] before finding a landlord willing to lease a home to them. Common excuses given were language problems, different lifestyle habits and fears over non-payment of rent.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Prospective lessees will pay 40-60 percent of their monthly rent as an initial payment, followed by 10,000 yen a year every subsequent year. In turn, the service provider will guarantee up to a year’s missed rent to landlords. Lessees can also receive the service provider’s information packs on living in Japan.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

South Korean student Kim Yon-min, 23, says: “I’ve got friends who have been told ‘no foreigners allowed’ by real estate companies. I’m still not confident about my Japanese, so this kind of service makes me feel reassured.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

“When I first arrived in Japan, I was in trouble because no one was willing to be my guarantor,” says a 28-year-old Indonesian designer. “I think other Indonesians will ask for this kind of service.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Information Center for Foreigners in Japan was set up in 1995 to aid foreign victims of the Great Hanshin Earthquake. It provides volunteer Japanese lessons, and provide information on living in Japan to the editors of newsletters in 14 languages.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Original Japanese story
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Mainichi: A Tokyo non-profit organization has set up a new real estate guarantor service for foreign residents negotiating Japan’s notoriously discriminative housing system.<\/p>\n

The service, the first of its kind, is set up by the Information Center for Foreigners in Japan and will start offering guarantor services in Tokyo and surrounding prefectures in South Korean and Chinese later this month. The services will later be expanded to cover people from English-speaking countries.<\/p>\n

The service was set up after a 2006 questionnaire showed that foreign residents in Tokyo were visiting an average of 15 real estate agents [!!!} before finding a landlord willing to lease a home to them. Common excuses given were language problems, different lifestyle habits and fears over non-payment of rent…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,35,11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-discrimination-templates","category-good-news","category-problematic-foreign-treatment","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}