RetireJapan

Does anyone have experience getting their driver license / license history ? My new potential employer is asking for 5 years of license and driving offence history. Can it be ordered online? Thanks!

I don't blame them at all, what a farce. Screw the little guy and bail out the fat cats. I'm in this mess too, I'm long AMC, NOK, EXPR, but it has nothing to do with me trying to fund my Webull account from Japan. I have made progress, Transferwise told me to fund my Transferwise account with yen fi...

Has anyone successfully opened and funded a Webull account from Japan? I'm running into brick walls.

So, I tried TransferWise, and everything seemed to be going smoothly, but the money was "sent back" with the message "Interactive Brokers LLC's bank account can't receive USD transfers." Anyone with experience of using TransferWise, how do you get it sent? What currency does Int...

An update : I was able to successfully transfer funds to my IB account. Thanks again to Mule96 for the information that allowed me to do so. I did it through SMBC online banking, for those who might want to do so here are the steps: 1. Set up an SMBC account and set up online banking 2. Get on your ...

mule96 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 15, 2019 8:54 am I used the Shintomicho Branch (〒104-0041 東京都中央区１８ 中央区新富１丁目１８−１)

Thank you again. I actually went to a branch, up to the foreign section, but they were not helpful at all, I will try again and tell them to call that branch if necessary.

Can you tell me which UFJ brach you used? Thanks!

It failed as expected. I guess i will try ufj next.

IB's bank wire instructions have not changed, I just logged in and checked theri instructions: Bank Wire Instructions Provide the following information to your bank to initiate the transfer. Wire Funds toCitibank, N.A., Tokyo Branch Otemachi Park Building, 1-1-1 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-8132 J...

Thank you mule96 for this post! I tried to do this today, I went to SMBC Trust bank in Namba, Osaka. I had everything I needed to do the transfer from my SMBC acct to IB`s Citibank acct in Tokyo. To no avail, they were all bamboozled by the ten-digit account number and could not figure out what to d...