RetireJapan

This might be an option for you too? Thanks for the response and helpful sanity check! Unfortunately that's probably not an option either since we plan to slowly take the capital gains throughout retirement instead of all at once to avoid bumping into too high of a US capital gains bracket Just cur...

My spouse and I are US citizens and have been in Japan for about 1.5 years on an HSP visa and are considering applying for PR later this year, but want to make sure we understand all the tax implications (especially which ones are irreversible). From my understanding, most of the taxation rules are ...