So my Japanese wife and I plan on leaving Japan before the start of 2025 to go traveling South East Asia for a year before settling down in Japan again.
We know we have to pay 2024 income tax for the upcoming tax year, but she’s telling me that as a Japanese national she has to sell her stocks and close her bank accounts if she isn’t a resident in Japan or else they’ll be locked?
That sounds utterly ridiculous to me, I don’t want her liquidating her assets and moving it but she claims her accounts will be frozen if she’s not considered a resident for the year.
Does anyone here have experience with a Japanese partner who’s moved abroad temporarily? Is this true?
TIA!
by tehcollegestudent