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Not a similar situation since I also get a second pension in addition to national. Actually, if you get both a national (kokumin, or JNP) and a second (kosei, or EPI) Japanese pension, I believe this should still apply to you for the national part -- assuming you started receiving US Social Securit...

My wife has been receiving US Social Security for more than 5 years, and her benefit amount has been drastically reduced by the US Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) because she also receives some Japanese National Pension (JNP) income. I heard, however, that the WEP rule concerning JNP income was...

Thank you. This other site info could be helpful, as well. All I know is the years -- not specific dates within those years. Since I only have year-end financial statements dated 12/31 that show the yearly totals, I supposed another approach would be to treat the transactions as carried out on 12/31...

Follow-up I just compared the Mitsubishi UFJ annual midrange rates and the US Fed yearly exchange rates for 2020 through 2023 (links given above), and I found their annual rates were essentially the same: 2020 2021 2022 2023 106.82 109.80 131.43 140.56 Mitsubishi UFJ 106.78 109.84 131.46 140.50 US ...

Thanks both of you. This gives me something to go on.
Incidentally, that Mitsubishi UFJ site is the one I've been using for daily TTM rates, but I'd never paid attention to the average 平均 tab before.

I'm aware of Japanese Tax Law Article 57-3 《Conversion of Foreign Currency Transactions》 https://www.nta.go.jp/law/tsutatsu/kihon/shotoku/11a/01.htm , and of the need to use daily TTM rates for converting things to JPY. However, for transactions from many years past for which I now have no way of kn...

I'm a US citizen, a permanent resident in Japan, and retired. Among my retirement investments, I have a small Traditional IRA in the US that I opened years ago while working in The States, and I funded it for just a couple of years with $7,636 I earned before moving to Japan. Converting that $7,636 ...

Thank you. I appreciate the detailed replies. Although it will take me some time to fully digest all of the above information, I now get the gist of it. It would be extremely helpful if somewhere there were a simple, concise explanation, possibly in chart form, for various types of common income (US...

This just in.... I discovered the following in the technical explanation: Paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article 17 are subject to the saving clause of subparagraph 4(a) of Article 1 (General Scope). Thus, a U.S. citizen who is a resident of Japan and receives a pension, a social security payment, or an annu...