RetireJapan

This is the best explanation for it - in Japanese https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suN2rgDHF0E Essentially you get the 1.6 oku or the legal amount - whichever is higher. While this sounds great, if you are trying to reduce the amount of taxation as you pass along the estate to a next generation, it i...

Good post, but just want to clarify the following: 1. Like many inheriting from their spouse, neither my wife or I will have to pay inheritance tax since the total inheritance forthcoming to the surviving spouse will be under the ¥1.6 oku (approx US$1.5 million) limit beyond which inheritance tax mu...