Non-Japanese persons who worked and paid pension contributions in Japan（Kosei Nenkin / Kokumin Nenkin / Kyosai Nenkin）can claim refunds of their contributions within 2 years since leaving Japan. This payback system is called “Lump-sum Withdrawal Payments”. Details are shown on the guidance pages of Japan Pension Service.
（3）They don't reside in Japan now.
（※）Minimum period for a qualification to claim old age pension (basically after 65 years old) is currently 10 year's enrollment. PR holders have a shorter period. Please see this blog article.
（Some countries have Social Security Agreements with Japan to totalize both countries' pension enrollment periods. The latest list of these countries are shown on this blog article.
To satisfy the condition (3) you need to apply for "notification of moving-out (転出届[tenshutus todoke, てんしゅつとどけ] in Japanese)" just before you leave Japan, to the municipal office where you are registered as a resident.
YouAT LLC carries out TOTAL PROCESS of claiming pension refunds legally.
We can also refund 20% tax as a tax agent, and our fees are set well under 20% tax.
We examine all of your documents before claiming and help you succeed in your refund surely.
We claim both your pension refund and its 20% tax refund, and send them to your bank account.
We send needed documents to you via email, and examine all of your documents before claiming. Please send completed documents to us.
A claiming period can be 3 to 4 months at shortest and around half a year in long cases.
Before claiming, we get a research and tell you the estimated sum of your pension refund. Our fee will be set according to the estimated sum.
But it is possible that the real sum of your pension refund will deviate slightly from the estimation. If that happens it is possible that we recalculate our fee, and kick back some to you or deduct additionally from the refund.
Pension refunds and 20% tax refunds are sent abroad by international currencies. Please see the page 14 of the guidance of Japan Pension Service. If you designate the bank account in Japan, though, your pension refund and 20% tax refund will be sent by JPY.
(*) If your pension refund is from National Pension (国民年金) only, it is tax-exempt. In this case it is possible that we offer our fee in advance.
Please claim your pension refund by yourself, agreeing with our explanation. If you succeed in your claim, you will get 80% of it.
Please send us (1) “Notice of Entitlement: Your Lump-sum Withdrawal Payments”, that is mailed to you from Japanese authority and (2) Tax agent designation form, that we will show you. If you lost it we will reissue it with the additional fee of 5,000yen.
We refund 20% tax of your pension refund. A tax refund will take around 1 to 3 months. We send refunded tax into your bank account after we deduct our fee from it.
If you lost “Notice of Entitlement: Your Lump-sum Withdrawal Payments”,+5,000yen is added for its re-issue cost.
※They will be deducted from the refunded tax after all the claiming process ends. You don’t have to send any money to us.