Renewal fees revisited
Peter Link in Kyoto writes on the subject of renewal fees for renting property. This is the Japanese system whereby a renter can expect to pay a charge of up to three months' rent every two years to the landowner.
"In your Lifelines on 4/16 you state that you have to pay the renewal fee if it is written in your contract.
"I would like to point out that the ruling acknowledging the refusal of the renewal fee by a Kyoto court was in a case where the renewal fee was written in the contract. Comments about this ruling can be seen at www.toshin.gr.jp/manage/report/200407.html (in Japanese).
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