Blog - Nenkin Refund for Foreigners in Japan

If an agent took your documents and stopped answering, your pension refund claim is not lost. Here is what you can still do.

If your employer in Japan never enrolled you in Employees' Pension Insurance, you may have a right to back enrollment. [...]

Moving from Technical Intern Training to an SSW visa? Here is what actually happens to your pension record, and when [...]

Your Nenkin Teikibin shows your real pension contribution history. Here is what each section means and how to check it [...]

Switching employers in Japan? Here is what happens to your kosei nenkin, whether there is a gap, and what to [...]

Which Japanese pension trainees and SSW workers pay, how kosei nenkin is calculated, when it comes out of your salary, [...]

Claim your Japan pension refund yourself, or let us file it for a flat fee. The rules, the 20.42% tax, [...]

Not sure if you can claim Japan’s pension lump-sum withdrawal payment? Check the full list of conditions before you apply.

Left Japan but still cannot claim your pension refund? A valid re-entry permit is often the reason. Here is how [...]

Plain answers about pension and tax refunds