If it's any consolation I was also declined a couple of weeks ago.
Like you I was planning on having a trading account/NISA and bank account with Rakuten to keep it all tidy. Accepted for the trading account, declined on the bank account.
I assumed it was because I don't have a job, just capital.
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- Mon Jan 16, 2023 7:27 am
- Forum: Banking
- Topic: Rakuten declined my request to open a bank account.
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- Mon Oct 04, 2021 5:29 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Leaving Japan - but hoping to return for retirement
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Re: Leaving Japan - but hoping to return for retirement
This caught my eye so I'll add my situation because it may give a slightly different viewpoint: Went to Japan in 1995 and left in late 1998, due to work. During that time I had married my Japanese wife. Now I am 60 yrs old and selling up in the UK to move back to Tokyo by the end of the year since m...