Claim Your Japan Pension Lumpsum (Nenkin Refund) After You Leave
You paid into Japan's pension system while you worked here. That money does not stay with the government. We file the claim for you, deal with the offices in Japanese, and tell you the exact fee before we start.
The check is free. We reply in English, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Indonesian, and Nepali.
Four things you may be owed
Most people come to us for the pension refund and find out they also have tax money waiting. We check all four every time.
Pension lump-sum (Dattai Ichijikin)
We don't just claim your Pension Lumpsum, the 79.58% that lands in your bank account. We also claim back the Pension Tax Japan withholds on it, the other 20.42%. Two claims, one filing.
Income and resident tax refund
Most people never claim this one. While you worked in Japan, income tax and resident tax came out of every payslip. If you sent money home to family, much of that tax can be refunded, and next year's resident tax can be reduced. Some customers save up to ¥250,000.
Document translation
Passport pages, bank letters, birth certificates and marriage papers translated into Japanese and laid out the way the office expects, so nothing gets sent back.
Maternity allowance
If you paid Japanese health insurance while working and gave birth after going home, the birth allowance, up to ¥488,000, may still be yours. We check your insurance record and file the claim.
Four steps, and we do three of them
Send photos
Photograph your pension book, your passport pages and your bank details. Send them on LINE, WhatsApp or email. No office visit needed.
We check and quote
We tell you what you can claim, roughly how much to expect, and the exact fee. In writing, before you agree to anything.
We file
We fill in the Japanese forms, sign as your tax representative, and submit to the pension service and the tax office. We keep copies of everything.
You get paid
The pension office pays your home bank account. The tax refund follows. If a payment stalls, we chase it and tell you what is happening.
Rules people find out too late
Honest, boring, finished on time
There are agents who take 20% of your refund, agents who add fees after you sign, and agents who stop answering once they have your documents. We built this company because our first customers had already been through one of those.
People who already got paid
I flew home in March and thought the pension was the end of it. They filed the tax part too and a second payment came in September. I did not know that money existed.
Dinh · factory worker, 3 years in GunmaMy Japanese is bad and the forms scared me. They messaged me on LINE every week in Nepali until the money was in my account in Kathmandu.
Sujan · construction, 2 years in SaitamaNot sure if you can claim? Ask us.
Send us a photo of your pension book and tell us when you left Japan. We will tell you what is claimable and what it costs. No charge for the answer.