RetireJapan

ok, good to know. thanks so much for clearing that up.

Hello, I want to send a large amount of money back to the US because I am moving back next year. Are there any tax considerations or other caveats to sending 20 million yen at once? Is it better to send smaller amounts more often? For example, I have heard that sending less than $10,000 at a time wo...

bryanc wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 6:53 am slightly different angle-but can a public school pension be calculated on nenkin net-i thought it couldnt be as pensionnumber is different?

yes, I could see what I had paid into the private school pension on there but I could not run any simulations.

RetireJapan wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 4:06 am There is a way to calculate but it is very fiddly. If you pay into kosei nenkin for ten years I would say a pension of 40,000 yen a month would not be completely wrong (it might be more or less, but somewhere in the same ballpark).

thanks, that helps!

Can I receive the full amount of private school pension back if I leave Japan? I read it is up to 5 years for the public pension but wondered if it is possible to get all of it for private school pensions?

Hello, I have paid private school pension for 7 years. I am wondering what the pension would be if I stay until I reach the 10 year minimum. I have met with the private school pension office, but they could not estimate what my future pension might be. I checked my payment history on nenkin.net but ...