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Capital Tokyo · Median age 49
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The practical read for Americans weighing life in Japan: what the catalog knows about daily-life signals, costs, residency routes, and source freshness — with honest gaps where we have not sourced it yet.
Practical snapshot
Cost of living54
Healthcare94
Safety91
Climate resilience12
3 mobility routes
Check my fitPractitioner ecosystem
The people who know this process cold
Facilitators, cross-border advisors, and community groups.
Not yet sourced
A vetted practitioner directory for Japan is not committed to the catalog yet. Until it is verified, we are not listing names.
Healthcare
What the signals say about care
The normalized healthcare index, plus which programs grant local-system access.
Healthcare94
Local healthcare access by program
Investor/Business Manager VisaYes
Japan Digital Nomad VisaNo
Specified Skilled Worker ProgramYes
System narrative not yet sourced
The public/private system walkthrough, hospital names, and typical out-of-pocket costs for Japan require verified sourcing and are not committed yet.
Sources & freshness
Where this page comes from
Real provenance for the live figures above: named sources, verification status, and recent regulatory changes.
Verified data points
0Stale
0Unverified
120| Source | Confidence | Status | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| CATO Institute | — | unverified | — |
| Center for Reproductive Rights | — | unverified | — |
| CitizensOS Destination Facts — Country DB (Primary workbook) | — | unverified | — |
| EF Set | — | unverified | — |
| Equaldex | — | unverified | — |
| Freedom House | — | unverified | — |
| Gallup | — | unverified | — |
| Germanwatch | — | unverified | — |
| Global Life-Work Balance Index | — | unverified | — |
| Heritage Foundation | — | unverified | — |
| IMD | — | unverified | — |
| Legatum | — | unverified | — |
| Numbeo | — | unverified | — |
| Ookla | — | unverified | — |
| Our World in Data | — | unverified | — |
| StartUp Blink | — | unverified | — |
| The Economist | — | unverified | — |
| The Lancet | — | unverified | — |
| Transparency International | — | unverified | — |
| US News | — | unverified | — |
| World Bank | — | unverified | — |
| World Happiness Report | — | unverified | — |
| World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) | — | unverified | — |
| World Justice Report | — | unverified | — |
| World Population Review | — | unverified | — |
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