About Me
For years, Japan was never part of my investment plan.
I’m Japanese, yet I looked elsewhere when it came to real estate. Like many people, I assumed owning property here was complicated, restrictive, and not particularly attractive from a long-term perspective. That assumption went largely unquestioned until I actually took the time to learn how the system worked.
Everything shifted after I bought my first vacant home.
What followed was not a single transaction, but a deeper understanding of Japan’s housing market, its incentives, its inefficiencies, and its quiet potential. In late 2023, I purchased my first rental property in Japan. Since then, I’ve continued investing here, to the point where I now own more properties in Japan than I do in the United States. That wasn’t planned. It was the natural result of seeing clearly where long-term opportunity and alignment truly existed.
At the same time, I started documenting everything.
I didn’t want to keep this knowledge private or polished into theory. I wanted to show the real process. The questions. The uncertainty. The decisions that actually matter. Over time, that documentation turned into more than 1,000 videos on YouTube, capturing not only my own journey but the journeys of people from all over the world who decided to take the same step.
What became clear was this. The biggest barrier wasn’t money, eligibility, or desire. It was clarity.
So I built Post FI to focus on education, transparency, and real outcomes. And in February 2025, I co-founded and launched AkiyaHub to serve people at a larger scale. Since then, we’ve helped hundreds of people across the globe move from curiosity to action. Today, AkiyaHub is a growing community of over 20,000 members, all learning, sharing, and navigating Japanese real estate together.
What matters to me most is not speed or volume. It’s intention.
Japan is at a quiet crossroads. Homes are being left behind. Towns are changing. At the same time, more people are feeling drawn here not just as visitors, but as owners, caretakers, and participants in the next chapter of these communities.
Owning a home in Japan is not about chasing a deal. It is about choosing to engage more deeply with a place. To understand its systems. To respect its culture. To take responsibility for something tangible and lasting.
My role is not to tell you what you should do. It is to make the path visible, reduce unnecessary friction, and share what I’ve learned so you can make thoughtful decisions with confidence.
If you feel a genuine pull toward Japan, toward building something meaningful here, you don’t need to have everything figured out. You just need to be willing to begin.
And that first step is often simpler than you think.
Start Your Japan Journey!