AI-generated editorial illustration · Not documentary evidence
National context / Source-linked observations
Facts with their boundaries.
PopulationSource checked
123,366,734
people · Reference year 2025
Total population. National context, not the size of your destination city.
Source & confidence
Source: UN Population Division, national statistical offices, Eurostat and UN Statistics Division, via World Bank, World Development Indicators. Indicator license: CC BY 4.0 (registry reviewed 2026-09-02). Values are rounded for display; no missing observations are imputed. Confidence here describes traceability and freshness, not a probability of truth.
People using the internet. Not a measure of connection speed or service quality.
Source & confidence
Source: International Telecommunication Union (ITU), World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database, via World Bank, World Development Indicators. Indicator license: CC BY 4.0 (registry reviewed 2026-09-02). Values are rounded for display; no missing observations are imputed. Confidence here describes traceability and freshness, not a probability of truth.
Modeled ILO estimate of total unemployment. Not your probability of getting a job; profession and work authorization matter.
Source & confidence
Source: International Labour Organization (ILO), ILOSTAT modeled estimates, via World Bank, World Development Indicators. Indicator license: CC BY 4.0 (registry reviewed 2026-09-02). Values are rounded for display; no missing observations are imputed. Confidence here describes traceability and freshness, not a probability of truth.
Gross enrollment ratio includes students outside the official age group and can exceed 100%. Not university quality or admission probability.
Source & confidence
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), via World Bank, World Development Indicators. Indicator license: CC BY 4.0 (registry reviewed 2026-09-02). Values are rounded for display; no missing observations are imputed. Confidence here describes traceability and freshness, not a probability of truth.
Reviewed summaries, precise audiences and unresolved questions. These initial dossiers focus on study decisions; work, tax and regulated-profession eligibility are not automatically established.
Entry & residence / guidanceReview overdue
A Certificate of Eligibility is not a visa guarantee
MOFA’s student guidance explains the Certificate of Eligibility and states that it does not guarantee visa issuance.
Do not rely on this as current guidance. Open the official source and obtain a new review.
Open source-review issue, observed 2026-09-03: Production checker received HTTP 403. This is a checker-access restriction, not proof of a public-site outage or incorrect content. Review action and deadline →
Applies to: Applicants researching Japan’s Student visa route.
Reference: MOFA page dated 2023-03-17
Limits, questions and provenance
The official page is dated March 2023. Reconfirm current documents and mission-specific requirements before applying; this is not a complete legal checklist.
Who will coordinate your COE with the school?
What does the Japanese mission responsible for your residence currently request?
Source reviewed 2026-09-03 · Review interval 30 days · Claim jp-coe. Review means a source-content check, not a personal eligibility determination.
JASSO’s search covers universities, graduate schools and junior colleges accepting international students, using information provided by schools.
Applies to: Prospective international students in Japan.
Reference: Directory consulted September 2026
Limits, questions and provenance
Source watch / Separate from editorial review
Inspect the update signals.
The checker reads registered public pages only. Results are cached for up to six hours; a daily job is configured, not a guarantee of continuous monitoring. HTTP access and selected text markers cannot prove that a rule is current or applies to you. Successful checks never renew editorial dates or clear outstanding review issues.
Personal safety, salary, housing affordability, immigration eligibility, university quality and your chance of success require separate evidence. TGPI does not substitute macroeconomic indicators for these answers or issue an unsupported “best country” score.
Build one scenario in one currency. Blank amounts stay unknown; enter zero only when a cost genuinely does not apply. Changing the country starts a new worksheet. Save or export first. Do not enter identity documents, account numbers or other sensitive identifiers.
Partial subtotal / Not a complete budget
Not calculated yet
Known monthly amounts × 12 months + tuition for the period + arrival costs + 10% contingency.
Known monthly amount: JPY 0 · Contingency: JPY 0
Still unknown: housing, food, transport, health, other, tuition, arrival. The subtotal must not be treated as the money you need.
Your quote date or source note is missing. The arithmetic does not validate your inputs.
Consult published references without mixing scopes
JASSO student survey
JPY 105,000 / month · 2023 survey — historical Source-reviewed reference; confirm it applies to your case. Japan — national average · Privately-financed international students Living-only reference: add tuition and other exclusions separately.
Explicit save only. One active worksheet per account; saving replaces the previous worksheet, not your profile or course progress.
My existing quick monthly estimate
Your earlier USD estimate remains separate from the new detailed worksheet. It is not a country baseline and is not automatically added to your scenario.
My monthly estimate
Enter your own monthly estimate for Japan in USD. Use dated local quotes; no reference budget is supplied by TGPI.
Not set
Your estimate is stored in its stated currency. Older estimates in another currency are not converted or relabeled.
Educational estimate only. Validate current local prices before decisions.
Research checklist / Personal confirmation
Go to the responsible authority.
Use the dossier’s source links where available and confirm the applicable route with the responsible authority. The summaries do not cover every nationality, programme, profession or family situation. Your existing checklist is preserved below; a checkmark is your research record, not a certified document or legal approval.
Protected progress
Documents to verify
Use official sources before legal, visa, tax or relocation decisions.
Review progress
0/4
From information to action
Give your shortlist a reason to exist.
Compare another country, record the questions that remain open and connect them to your learning and personal plan.
The directory explicitly says it is not exhaustive. Course language, admission and tuition need direct confirmation.
What is the programme’s language of instruction?
Has the school confirmed the latest application requirements and fees?
Source reviewed 2026-09-03 · Review interval 90 days · Claim jp-school-search. Review means a source-content check, not a personal eligibility determination.
JASSO reports JPY 105,000 monthly living expenditure from its 2023 privately-financed international-student survey, excluding study and research costs.
Applies to: Historical national average for privately-financed international students.
Reference: 2023 survey
Limits, questions and provenance
Not a 2026 price quote, not a Tokyo budget, and not inclusive of tuition. The page’s newer retail statistics do not update this survey result.
What has changed in rent and prices since 2023?
Have you collected quotes for your actual city and included tuition?
Source reviewed 2026-09-03 · Review interval 90 days · Claim jp-living-2023. Review means a source-content check, not a personal eligibility determination.
