Grandparents transferring money to kid’s foreign bank account

My son (minor) has dual citizenship and a bank account in my non-US home country.

His grandparents (my parents) would like to make recurring transfers to his (foreign) account as a college–fund kind of investment. I’m wondering if this would be subject to Japanese gift tax (his tax-free allowance of 1.1 mio is already maxed out with gifts here in Japan).

He is a Japanese national, currently in Japan, his grandparents are not and have never lived in Japan (in reference to [this article](https://www.nta.go.jp/taxes/shiraberu/taxanswer/zoyo/4432.htm) about unlimited tax payer regulation).

Or could this be counted as paying 教育費 since it would be a fund for later education.

by cyrusDJ

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