I will preface this by saying that I lived in Japan for many years and I intend to move back soon. I just need some insight into my situation.
I was married in and lived in Japan for many years, eventually got divorced and ultimately decided to move to another country last year.
After a month or so after leaving I started recieving emails from a lawyer stating that back I owe money (just under 40,000yen) to a company called Paidy which is an online Buy now pay later service. I signed up to it ages ago and used to let my ex-wife use it for household things on occasion. I brushed it off thinking it was a scam/spam at the time until I looked recently and noticed that there were multiple emails sent per month up until december last year stating that the payment is overdue after the deadline and the lawyer may take legal action. The account is also actually under the wrong name. When my ex made the account she wrote my old. pre-marital name down. What a nice surprise.
I attempted to contact them however, it lead to a website with no contact information at all, the email itself was a noreply address. There was no number, email etc. Only a local Japanese bank account to pay it into. I attempted to log into my Paidy account and realised that the website is Geolocked and you cannot log in outside of Japan – even after trying to use a VPN too. I also have no way of contacting my ex wife to sort it out. (Actually, her using my money and having debt was one of the reasons we divorced in the first place).
I have recently been offered a job in Japan and I will be travelling there this week as a tourist to talk about it and move back. In this time I intend to also pay this debt.
I am now quite anxious that it will potentially cause me issues at the border. Is there any chance this will flag up at immigration? Will I have any issues entering the country? Does anybody have any idea?
by Brave-Significance70