Rare/Obscure Visa for moving to Japan with 9 other people

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1. This is a copy of your post for archive/search purposes.

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   **Rare/Obscure Visa for moving to Japan with 9 other people**

   I heard about an obscure visa that allows a group of 10 people to move into an abandoned home and fix it up. One of those “Gaijin houses”. Has anybody heard of this? I’m thinking of forming a team. I’m aiming to talk to my consulate general of japan about it and seeing if it’s still a thing.

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2. does not exist. has never existed.

   edit, just curious, where did you “hear” about this visa?

3. Absolutely, positively, never a thing.

4. “Forming a team” hahaha

5. ah yes the hunger games visa

6. This is an absurd concept. If it was anywhere remotely true the countryside would have been inundated with cheap migrant labour from nearby developing countries inside of a decade.

   In recent years immigration has made great strides in getting documentation formalized and made available. Have a look at what’s here:
   https://www.moj.go.jp/isa/applications/procedures/16-1.html?hl=en

   It’s important to remember that property ownership confers no right to residency nor right to entry. This was most recently and famously demonstrated during the covid lockout when many foreign residents were locked out of the country for several months.

   So no, there is no visa for a group of up to 10 randoms to come and squat in an abandoned home.

7. No. And you don’t really “fix up” homes in Japan anyway. They have a short shelf life, and it’s the land that has the importance.

   There are subsidies for this kind of thing (not aimed at “gaijin”), and they’re more about maintaining populations and attracting people to disappearing towns, not to “fix up” old homes.

8. Tripe.

   Entertaining tripe, but still tripe.

   Having a visa that allows a bunch of randoms to move into the countryside (especially at *10 people* to a house) provides zero benefit to the Japanese government, would be opposed by any nearby communities, and honestly just makes no sense given the complete lack of any requirement for productive output.

   It sounds as though someone heard of all the foreigner weed communes in that one prefecture in China and though ‘but what if Japan had a visa for that?’ It makes no sense at even a surface-level examination.

9. >I heard about an obscure visa that allows a group of 10 people to move into an abandoned home and fix it up.

   Citation needed.

10. This is new.

    Do you have a reference to this wild rumour please?

    And what is a “gaijin house”?

    This sounds like one of those reality tv things.

11. >I’m aiming to talk to my consulate general of japan about it and seeing if it’s still a thing.

    let us know what they say

12. Are you high

13. Just searched on google because it kinda sounds intriguing. It seems like there’s no such thing.

14. “Obscure visa”

    “For a group of ten people” (!!!)

    “One of those gaijin houses” (?????)

    “I’m thinking of forming a team” (笑笑笑笑笑笑)

    This subreddit delivers gems every day.

15. One of the funniest Reddit posts I’ve read in a long time.

    Thanks for making my afternoon.

    Now I have energy to continue doing my work 🤣

16. I’m looking for a group of people with a very specific set of skills.

17. You and your amazing team of alien house fixer-uppers are most welcome to transform the Japanese countryside! Please pay me the retainer to begin the process of your visa applications. See you in Shimane!