Moving to Japan… with a remote career?

I’m finding conflicting info on this.

I have a remote marketing career that I’ve build into a self-run business during the past 5 years. I make well over 6 figures (this doesn’t include my husband’s income), and my company doesn’t care when I do my hours, so I can work from anywhere.

The thing is, my husband and I want to move to Japan. I’ve heard there’s a brand new remote work visa… that lasts six months, and you can’t renew it back to back.

I’ve heard you can self sponsor, but some people say you HAVE to have Japanese clients, some people say you don’t. So I’m lost there. Once I get my N2 I don’t mind getting Japanese marketing clients, but obviously that’s not a for sure thing.

I make PLENTY, and I want to move to the Japanese countryside once my kids are grown. This is a ways off, but I have no idea what to plan for living there more than 6 months at a time.

Any advice?

Side note: would it be more realistic to buy a vacation home and just live in Japan half the year on a remote work visa? That’s also in the realm of possibility for us. We have plenty of disposable income.

Our plan was to get a vacation home within the next few years to live in during off school season, and for holidays, and just move in permanently once the kids are grown up. But the visa situation is confusing, and I’m seeing so much conflicting info.

Thanks!!