{"id":3213,"date":"2020-04-14T10:06:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T01:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vhbloglive.wpengine.com\/?p=3213"},"modified":"2020-04-14T10:07:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T01:07:15","slug":"leaving-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.villagehouse.jp\/en\/japanese-apartment-life\/leaving-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaving Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Some people move\nto a new country and find what they had been missing in their old lives.\nExperiencing new cultures, people, and lands is always an exciting experience.\nFor some, it is the next step of their lives and they will continue to stay in\nthe new country, but for others, it may not be as good of an experience or they\nmay need to go home to take care of personal matters. Whatever the reason may\nbe, some people will leave Japan and return to their original countries.  There are a few things that need to be done\nbefore leaving, and if you don’t complete some of them it will mean you can’t\nreturn to the country until it is fixed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sort Your Things<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The first thing\nyou need to do is figure out what things you plan to take with you, and what\nneeds to be thrown away. You must find out what is important to you as shipping\nis expensive the more you try to send internationally. Try to keep it to a\nminimum, such as clothing and small mementos that can fit in your luggage or a\nmedium-sized box. The larger things should be thrown away, given away, or sold\noff. Things like appliances, bedding, house items, and larger than normal\nitems. You can try to make some money back by selling your stuff to recycle\nshops or to other people coming to Japan. The latter will see you getting more\nmoney as the shops will try to buy everything as cheaply as possible while\npeople coming into the country would be willing to pay a reasonable price for\nused things. There are online forums that can help you get rid of your stuff\nquickly for free. Anything that you want to get rid of as soon as possible can\nbe put up for pick up on social media sites. It saves you the time that you\nwould spend trying to pawn it off. If you decide to throw it away, you will\nhave to pay a fee for appliances and other large items. This one is the most\ntime consuming and will hurt your wallet in the end, so it isn’t the most\nrecommended. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pay Your Debts<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Any debts that\nyou have accrued over your stay need to be paid and closed before you leave\nJapan. This means any bills, rent, credit cards, city tax, national tax, and\nanything else that you have on record. If you don’t pay, they can charge you on\nyour last check from your previous job and if you still owe more than the\npaycheck, they can ban you from returning until you work out a payment. This\ndoesn’t bother some people as they never intend to return to the country again,\nbut for others, it can be stressful. You should also pay them to help the\npeople that helped you set up all your living arrangements, even if it was your\ncompany and you don’t really like your company. If you leave with debts it will\nalso leave a bad impression on the Japanese people. They tend to apply their\nexperience with one or two people from a country and apply it to everyone from\nthere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fill out Your Paperwork<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When getting\nready to leave you will need to fill out all the necessary paperwork. You will\nneed to notify the local government of your intent to leave and the federal\ngovernment. You will need to notify your landlord and all the companies that\nhandle your utilities as well. They will need to be informed at least one month\nahead of your departure. The same thing is needed for you to collect your\npension if you have been paying into it. There have been changes to the rules\nof how you can collect it, and even now there is still legislation that is being\ndiscussed how to handle foreigners collecting their pensions. For you to\ncollect your final paycheck you will need to ensure that you fill out\neverything with your company or you will have trouble getting your money, or\neven miss out on the entire paycheck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Farewell Parties<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It is customary\nin Japan to throw a farewell party or have some kind of gathering to see you\noff. Some of your coworkers will try to get the office together for a drinking\nparty as well. Be ready to have two or three get-togethers with people you\nworked with. Everyone will try to tell you about all of the fun times they had\nwith you and how they wished they could spend more time with you. Get ready to\ndrink a lot of alcohol and have everyone try to tell you how good of a coworker\nyou were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It is never easy\nto pick up your life and move everything out. There is always some new\npaperwork or new guidelines to follow when going between countries. You need to\nmake sure you have filled out all of the necessary paperwork or you will not be\nable to leave in good standing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Try to do as much\nresearch as you can to get all of it right. If you make sure to do it all\ncorrectly you will have a smooth exit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some people move to a new country and find what they had been missing in their old lives. Experiencing new cultures, people, and lands is always an exciting experience. For some, it is the next step of their lives and they will continue to stay in the new country, but for others, it may not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3214,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japanese-apartment-life"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.villagehouse.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.villagehouse.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.villagehouse.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.villagehouse.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.villagehouse.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.villagehouse.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.villagehouse.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.villagehouse.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.villagehouse.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.villagehouse.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}