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Can someone explain the figures I'm seeing online for my JP pension? Having checked yesterday I can see 86 kokumin nenkin, and 39 kosei nenkin months paid. Assuming my freelance status remains I'll have 96 more kokumin nenkin payments to age 60 to make for a total of 86+39+96 = 221 months. I.e. my p...

I completely understand your point re I think the problem may be that the land has no cashflow, and Japanese banks don't want to be stuck with land they may not be able to off-load, Though if I were just to sell the land to a Japanese (or foreigner with PR) and that buyer went to get a loan they'd g...

Thanks for all the replies and explainers. Personally I feel most (95%+) users will already have their contact details up to date on the site, and so the default second stage security check should be for Rakuten to call us (as was the case prior before becoming greyed out), rather than we have to ca...

I've been a Rakuten Securities user for 18months or so, but in the past few weeks I've been met with "you seem to be trying to login in from a new location on this device" type of message, and then asked to enter a secondary security stage login process. Option two of this security stage s...

I own outright, a fully-paid for, plot of land in Japan probably worth circa 20m yen. When purchasing the land many years' ago the plan was to build on it but, for various life reasons, that is now not a favoured option and so I am now just essentially "land-banking" the plot so that it ca...

So, my mother emailed today to request a family Zoom meeting with myself, and my sister (UK citizen and resident) re. my parents (still married, UK citizens and residents) changing their wills. Specifically on whether to keep, or remove, a Fixed Life Investment Trust from their will. This is the fir...

Just a reminder that your browser can auto-translate for you Thanks, I'm aware, but a lot of Japanese websites used to (still do?) insert "block" image/pdf sections of content aside from the text that wouldn't get translated (Excuse my HTML lack of correct terms). Hopefully this is not th...

So, two and half years ago I bought a used car that I use(d) 50-50 between personal and business use. And so for tax 2024 I can depreciate the vehicle for it's final 6 months' of business use. I believe I can't depreciate the cars value to zero, but what is the limit of a used cars residual value? 1...

So, up until now I've always handwritten my kakutei shinkoku. Just wondering if I should consider e-Tax for my return this year... How difficult is it the first time to go through the system until muscle memory kicks in in subsequent years... I read that some users (Tkydon?/Adamu?) go through the sy...

Thanks. My dividends are only from within Japan, but this should help others I hope.