{"id":58,"date":"2005-08-03T22:33:16","date_gmt":"2005-08-03T12:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thunderguy.com\/japan\/?p=58"},"modified":"2005-08-03T22:47:14","modified_gmt":"2005-08-03T12:47:14","slug":"bank-account-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/live-in-japan\/bank-account-in-tokyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank account in Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to open a bank account when I first moved to Tokyo. It turned out to be quite difficult: most banks required evidence of a long stay in Japan, such as a working visa or at least an alien card. I had high hopes for Shinsei Bank, since they were the most modern of the big banks and even had an English Internet banking service. Sadly, even they needed to see a valid visa before opening an account.<\/p>\n<p>I was going to wait until my work visa arrived before trying to open an account. But then somebody suggested I go to Tokyo Mitsubishi Bank in Roppongi. Easy! I opened up a regular passbook account, and all they needed to see was my passport. I even had the option of a Pooh Bear ATM card.<\/p>\n<p>I already had my alien card by that time, so I could probably have opened an account elsewhere anyway. But it was good to have the account at Tokyo Mitsubishi, especially since there are branches everywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to open a bank account when I first moved to Tokyo. It turned out to be quite difficult: most banks required evidence of a long stay in Japan, such as a working visa or at least an alien card. I had high hopes for Shinsei Bank, since they were the most modern of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}