Another question about how important it is to know how to write kanji.

I have seen some posts about how you have to write them to learn them and I do agree with that but what I want to ask is: Will I, when I am going to move to Japan, actually have to know how to write every kanji out of those most important 2000 or so?

For the N5 kanji that I know it did help me to write them 20 times or so, but now even if I do recognise them while reading I still can't remember how to write some of the most complicated ones and since those are the easier ones I do feel that something is not right. Escepially since some take way more time to write and are really hard to get right since even my writing in cursive is pretty ugly as it is.

So what I want to know is:will I, as a resident of Japan, have to know how to write 2000 kanji or will I just need to be able to recognise 2000 and write maybe not even half while replacing the rest with kana?

Thank you.