To buy electronics in Japan as a tourist, shop the big chains and specialist counters in Tokyo, pay with a card or IC card, and reclaim Japan’s 10% consumption tax on purchases of ¥5,000 or more (before tax) at one tax-free store on the same day by showing your passport. Check voltage, language and network … Read more
Short answer: most Japanese phones are water-resistant because the market expects them to be. Roughly 90% to 95% of handsets sold in Japan ship with an IPX7 or IPX8 rating, since Japanese users routinely take a phone into the shower or the bath, and docomo, au and SoftBank list waterproofing as a headline spec on … Read more
Japan sits in the top tier of 5G markets: its four networks reach almost every resident, and Opensignal has ranked the United States and South Korea alongside Singapore at the top for 5G Coverage Experience. The catch is that Japan’s headline 5G availability percentage looks modest, because operators built on Sub-6 spectrum rather than millimeter … Read more