Is salaray of 200000 yen/month in hand enough to live in yokohama (+company paid house,utililities, transport)?

Question:

got a offer from MNC to work in yokohama when company will be paying for my stay (House utilities daily transport). Apart from that after deducting all taxes i shall be getting close to 200000 yen for food, daily expenses. Is that good enough to survive in yokohama. Will there be any saving opportunity. I am going to live alone. I prefer going out on weekends as well. ... Please suggest

Answer:

Yeah, it's enough. That's about 50,000 yen/week, or 7,000 yen/day. I'm guessing that the transport fee is the standard situation, which means you'll have to pay for travel when you are out and about on your own. 7,000 yen/day will go pretty quickly when you go out on weekends.

To keep things in perspective, the average 'pocket money' for Japanese men, (an allowance given by the wives) is at an all time low. They have to make do with either 32,000 or 36,000 yen/mth, forget which, which is less than half the 1990 allowance of about 69,000 yen/mth. So you're doing better than the average Japanese husband. Not bad for starting out. Of course the Japanese salarymen are saving money for the kid's education, retirement, etc, something you won't make much progress on.