This is, surprisingly, more a "Japanese landlords really prefer salarymen" than a "Japanese landlords really anti-prefer foreigners" thing. The second happens, too, but the first preference is more common and harder to talk around.https://twitter.com/james_riney/status/1006387115708514304 …
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Note that often you're not discussing your suitability to rent with the landlord, you're discussing with their agent, like the property management company which actually runs the place.
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So when the agent says "The landlord prefers I don't rent to foreigners" you can say something like: "Oh, clearly the landlord meant that they didn't want *those* foreigners, but I'm well-versed in acting like an adult, socially established, fluent, etc. Let's have a meeting."
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But it's a lot harder to talk around a unique employment situation. This is not primarily for financial reasons; merely flashing Obvious Ability To Pay signals negatively about your social stability and degree of not-likely-to-cause-problems-down-the-line.
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I don't suppose incorporating a business and pretending to be a salaryman flies?
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A company you've never heard of can offer people full-time employment but their employees are not salaryman, not really, not for the purposes that the rest of society wants to use that information for.
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Gottcha. So judging by a couple of other things I've caught from you, FICO scores aren't really a thing in Japan?
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Credit reporting exists in Japan, and financial institutions can theoretically pull credit scores, but neither is at the level of ubiquity where you can reliably underwrite people primarily using them.
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