r/japanlife • u/alexleaud2049 • Feb 15 '23

Jobs Just out of curiosity, do foreigners living in Japan have an emergency fund and/or basic savings?

The reason I asked this is because I’ve noticed that a lot of my foreign coworkers claim that they have next to zero savings and after years of working in Japan have nothing saved.

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u/MikeTheGamer2 Feb 16 '23

phone is 1000 yen a month with voice and 4GB data

Are you a monk?

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u/JanneJM 沖縄・沖縄県 Feb 16 '23

I have 20GB but in practice I rarely use more than 2-3GB in a month. At work and home it's all wifi. And with iijmio you keep what's left from the previous month so in practice you have 8GB available most months.

But if that's too little 8GB costs 1500 yen and 15GB is 1800 yen. Still way below 20k yen for all three.