RetireJapan

I have property income in the UK for which I pay tax on the rental income. The after tax income is not taxed in Japan but it IS added to Japanese income, which takes me into a higher tax bracket and which also means I have to pay higher health insurance and any medical treatment at 30 percent instea...

Here's my situation. I'm retired on a modest university pension in Japan. I have a house rented out and savings in the UK, all declared to Japanese. I pay tax on the rented income in UK, so nothing to pay on that in Japan. However the UK assets and rental income in the UK push my Japanese tax up su...

I'm UK rather than US but in a similar position to the original poster. My feeling is of being double taxed in countries in which I do not have the right to vote. Double taxation without representation. Didn't someone go to war for that reason? Here's my situation. I'm retired on a modest university...

The rule of thumb is last language in, first language out. That probably means for most of us who live in Japan, where Japanese will be the last language learnt, that Japanese will be the first language to be lost in case of dementia or mental ill health. I've seen that happen in two cases of stroke...