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The salary man? What's that?
Traditional Japan work culture where you're not allowed to go home until your boss goes home. Boss hates his family and will twiddle his thumbs until 10pm and then say you have to come out for drinks until 2am. If you don't comply, your life will be made hell, and there will be a zero chance of career growth.
This type of culture coupled with shit economy has turbo dived Japanes population growth. There's 10-million "abandoned" homes in Japan, IE old person died alone and you can buy a fully furnished home for $7-50k. Honestly, I'm look at Japan as a place to move and at some point they're going to advertise to open the doors for immigration or completely revamp their work culture....or go extinct as a country.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_company_(Japan)
To be fair not all companies are "black" in that sense. The salaryman isn't dead yet, but AFAIK you can have a good-ish work-life balance in Japan nowadays. It's not quite the complete revamp they need to survive the 21st century, but things are slowly getting better.
Seconding as someone in Japan
How would one realistically buy a house, move to japan, and stay there for years tho?
Like visas and stuff
Be aware that foreigners are always treated as second-class citizens in Japan.
In some contexts intentionally yes, in some accidentally yes, and in others absolutely not. I've been in Japan 10 years.
You could buy one today and get a visa to live there 6 months of the year. There are other ways to get longer visas and work toward resediancy. Lots of info out there if you do a search.
Many places allow two visits totalling 180 days, but I'm not personally aware of any one-shot half-year. That's also largely on the waiver program and immigration is not obligated to let one into the country if it looks like they're trying to actually live there (visa runs for a couple days used to be a huge problem here).
Some countries are allowed half year tourist visas (Mexico for one)
Vacation > Student Visa > Work Visa > Spouse Visa > PR application in place (in my specific case)