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>>629

You can actually live in Japan with very basic Japanese.I have friends who've lived in Japan either during highschool or been married to a Japanese and I was definitely at their level or better in speaking and listening after about 8 months of studies(although very intensively, about twice the university speed). They've never cared much for kanji's though, being the normalfags they are.

You can make yourself understood with very limited grammar and vocabulary. You just need to get used to speaking.
I'd say one year of normal university courses(using that as the only point of reference) to comfortably have small chats. About two years to be able to at least fool people into thinking you're fluent.
Even after just 6 months, try having conversations in japanese as often as possible, you'll get used to it quickly and find that it really is a lot, lot easier than you thought.