Buying a home in Japan as a foreign resident: there is no nationality restriction on ownership, but a mortgage usually turns on residence status and length of employment rather than on citizenship. The 重要事項説明 disclosure before contract, the registration and acquisition taxes, and what an akiya actually commits you to.
This page does not yet list the offices, forms, costs or step-by-step procedures for it. The Immigration Services Agency publishes the Daily Life Support Portal, which covers this ground officially, free, in 19 languages, and is written by the agency that administers the procedures.
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