Signing up for Kokumin Nenkin
Quick, grumpy, done on paper I went into the ward office to sign up for kokumin nenkin today (this is pretty much the only thing involving pensions you should do at the ward office -make sure to ask questions at a pension office or by calling the national helpline). The process must be done within […]
Kosei Nenkin — Applying for Your Private School Pension
Ever wondered about how difficult it might be to apply? Wonder no more. Contributor par excellence Mason Dixon returns with another treatise that will be of interest to many of our readers: the exact process to apply for your pension. With RetireJapan as the single best source in assisting foreigners in Japan to plan for […]
Nenkin Case Study
Getting close to retirement A short, practical post for you today. A reader has kindly shared their nenkin statement with me and given me permission to put it on the blog. This person is closer to retirement than I am, so this gives us a more developed snapshot than my annual pension updates. In section […]
Nenkin Calculations
Show me the money We had a lot of follow-up questions to last week’s nenkin post. One of the most common ones was ‘how much nenkin am I going to get?’. It’s a tough question to answer, so we’ll try to give some more information here. Kokumin Nenkin Basic kokumin nenkin is extremely easy to […]
Leaving Japan
What happens to your investments? I had a great question this week from a reader by email. When I started thinking about it I realised it would probably take me a couple of hours to answer it properly, so I decided to write a blog post instead. That way we get to share the information […]