I recently retired from the military and will be collecting a pension of around 650k Yen per month for life along with investment income totaling out to around 1.4 mil Yen per month along with health insurance for the entire family. My wife and I want to buy a home in Japan, nothing special, just a basic 3 or 4LDK near Tokyo or Yokohama. I plan on using my GI bill to get a student visa and study Japanese at Temple University's Tokyo Campus, so that would give us a nice 3-4 year student visa to stay.
I would be bringing two children with me (8 YO and 5 YO). They are attending a Japanese school in the US to ease the transition. My wife and I are learning Japanese through a tutor, and I was stationed in Iwakuni for 3 years.
My question is this: What are our long term stay options for Japan? Is it even worth it to try and get Permanent Residency in Japan? We have considered starting a business of some kind and possibly taking that route, neither of us really want to work. OR is it better to just spend 2 90 day tourist visa stays per year in Japan and spend the other 6 months traveling around Asia? I imagine this would be the easiest route tax wise as I know my pension is not taxed in Japan, but my investment income would be taxed.
However, for my children to go to school, we would probably need to stay on some kind of visa. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
by Complex_Bad9038