I'm looking to buy the basics to start wood working. I do not have much space so I'll stick with mostly hand tools and a small table saw.
I'm interested is medium and small projects, and in Japanese woodworking.

I want to ask if there is any reason to buy a japanese block plane over a decent gaijin one, a lot of tutorials I see seem to be made by purists who only want to use japanese tools folded over a thousand times, and as much as I like the aesthetic they seem to be much more expensive than normal planes.