RetireJapan

Thanks, don't know the exact amount yet, it will depend on expenses, etc., but might well be a more than that 3600-man, given today's exchange rate. That is why I worry.

Thanks for that link, that is what I feared. I means that I can never return to Japan with my wife, if she is to have any money after I die. Amazing how a government can discriminate so much against its own citizens. After posting I realized that this issue was already largely taken up and explained...

Does anybody know how Japanese tax authorities treat income to a Japanese beneficiary from a foreign (USA) retirement accounts? My wife (Japanese) and I (US citizen), no kids, now living abroad, have most of our money for retirement in a TIAA retirement account (taxation is deferred until when you w...

Sorry if I am asking a question that somebody else already asked. A quick search doesn’t uncover any answers. I am a US citizen with a Japanese spouse, no kids. We lived in Japan (I on a spouse visa, i.e. “Table 2” visa, renewed 5 times) for 25 years until last year. Now we are abroad and are thinki...