My (American) wife (Japanese in US on green card) are in the process of purchasing a place in Japan with cash. My wife has a Japanese bank account into which we have transferred the funds needed for the purchase. Recently we discovered there is a limit on the amount we can send in a furikomi (500,000). This can be raised, but the user must go into a branch to raise it, and the limit is still 2,000,000.
We are in the US and do not have plans to return to Japan until several months post purchase. Does anyone know of any options that people use in this type of scenario to transfer large sums of money from a Japanese account?
Thanks
by LoggerRythm