RetireJapan

A couple of other questions on the Exit tax. 1. Understood it is for those with 100 million yen and higher. However does the tax apply to worldwide investments or only investments held in Japan? For example, I have retirement accounts in the U.S.: an IRA and a Roth IRA and a taxable brokerage accoun...

Goodness, thank you again for all this detailed information. Much appreciated! I should have mentioned earlier, my wife became a US citizen about 15 years ago. When she did that she was forced to give up her Japanese citizenship. When we returned to Japan, she later got her Japanese citizenship back...

Thank you for these replies. I'm leaning now towards making my residence in the U.S. and eventually giving up my PR and perhaps Japanese national health insurance here. Don't like these warnings I am hearing about estate taxes in Japan for foreigners. I am now wondering if I can continue to have an ...

Looking for basic advise. I am American with Japanese PR who has been living here for over five years and my wife is Japanese. We have a home in Texas (which we have been renting) and will return there in February, while also keeping our apartment in Tokyo. We like Japan and are thinking of using bo...