japan

I’m still very new to all of this, so I’m not sure if I’m doing things right. What I have done so far - maxed out this year’s NISA with 60% eMaxis Slim S&P 500 and 40% Rakuten VTI. What I want to do is invest an additional 300k every month in 50% eMaxis Slim S&P 500 and 50% VTI. The yen is...

I've reviewed numerous posts in this community, and here are the key steps to avoid becoming a tax resident in Japan for Japanese citizens with U.S. permanent residency status, as I understand them. 1: During each visit, ensure your stay in Japan does not exceed three months. You can have up to...

Hello, first time poster here hoping to get some opinions/thoughts on what to do with money in Japan. Context: American working for last 6 years at a foreign company in Japan and have PR. I'm being transferred to another country later this year, where I’ll likely be for 3-5 years. When I leave...

I remember checking a 3LDK in a building in Tachikawa, and it was around 40m yen at the time. I wanted to start looking for a place, and I was checking again today, and a 3LDK in the same building is around 70m now. I then checked for a 2LDK in our area (we payed about 20m yen), and the...

I don’t make much money, in fact I live more or less month to month. But over the years living in Japan and being frugal I have managed to save around 150man. I don’t want the money to just sit idle in my bank and would like to invest some as low-risk as possible - I’m thinking to start small by...

Hi all I need a bit of planning for helping out my kids (currently below 10 years old) of Japanese (+ foreign, non US) nationality. I am not a US Taxpayer. My goal is to help prepare for the costly education/university phase mainly, any left over being anticipation of future gifts (ideally I...

As per title, I'm kind risk adverse and will probably have almost 2 mill in the Japanese bank, which is quite a chunk of lost cash (home country is the UK). I will probably be moving to Vietnam and don't in particularly won't to bite the bullet and move everything to my UK account. I was...

Someone asked about this privately, and in order to share, and perhaps learn something myself (eg, improvements), here are the column headings in a couple of spreadsheets I use in my tax reporting. Here's the one for (1) trades, and another for (2) dividends. (There's one more for interest, but...