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Thank you to everybody for your responses. That is a great weight off both our minds. We really appreciate your help. It is good to know that tax offices in Japan use a “common sense” approach. We will separate all our assets 50% each before transferring them to Japan. Transitioning to retirement an...

My wife (Japanese) and I (Australian) are in the process of selling up in Australia and retiring back to Japan next year. We have some questions that we hope somebody on Retire Japan can help with. 1. One of the main issues that we are worrying about is caused by the fact that most of our assets in ...

Thank you for the excellent reply. So much to think about.
This may be a silly question. I know it's a rather specialized area but who are the best professionals to ask?

Good luck with it.

I look forward to hearing about it.

Certainly there is a lot to think about.

I would like to express my appreciation to the people who responded to my post.Retire Japan is an amazing resource. I had no idea that so many other are in a similar situation. Not sure if I need to open a new thread or not, but I have a follow up question. We will need to transfer our money to Japa...

Retiring to Japan from Australia This is my first post and I am hoping somebody may have suggestions. My wife is a Japanese national and I am an Australian citizen. We have been planning to move back to Japan for a number of years. We married in Japan back in the early 1990s when I had a spouse visa...