RetireJapan

My understanding is you'd have to determine the proportions of Spouse A and Spouse B's holdings in the account, which is why the general wisdom is to not use joint accounts.

Do you know of any steady (eMaxis-type) passive world stock funds U.S. citizens can purchase through SBI without getting stressed out by the IRS or milked by tax filing services? There aren't any. Apparently due to something called a QI agreement any of the Japanese brokers won't be able to sell yo...

What does "primary call" mean in this case? Google's not helping me out.

I was also told that I cannot receive a tax credit for US taxes that I paid. captainspoke mentioned this above, but I have the same understanding that as Japan has primary taxation rights you should be paying taxes to Japan, and using foreign tax credits to alleviate taxation on the US side. So the...

Surely they've got some issue with the contents of your Japanese filing rather than the order, right? Since they're specifically mentioning your US filing then perhaps it's something to do with foreign tax credits. Keep us posted though, I'd be interested to hear what they have to say. It could be h...