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Typical Japanese taxes at 3.6 million yen in earnings. Any disagreement? 26 Aug 2013 | 11:51 pm
An individual in Japan who makes 3.6 million yen (USD $36,000 at JPY100/USD) gets an exclusion of JPY 1,250,000. Their net is 2,340,000. A personal deduction of JPY 380,000 is available. So the net dr...
Japan grabs $8.8 million from US in totalization payments for 2012. What do US pensioners get from Japan? 26 Aug 2013 | 09:19 am
The post I promised the other day. This is the update to the series I began a few years ago. The figures the US Social Security Administration put out for 2012 still have Japan as Number Two in collec...
How Japan benefits from the U.S.-Japan Totalization Treaty, (but not vice versa.) 24 Aug 2013 | 09:11 am
Update with 2012 data, coming soon. The total per year is well over $8 million. NO WAY is the Japanese Pension Service paying out $8 million to Americans (and we are three times the size of Japan . . ...
I am fascinated by these voter changes in North Carolina. 23 Aug 2013 | 09:40 am
Doing more TV watching over the internet than writing these days, when not involved in courses I’m teaching. Has anyone else followed the details of what is going on in North Carolina? Rachel Maddow i...
The Japan Times says that Temple Japan feels excluded. When is Temple Japan going to be more honest? 19 Aug 2013 | 04:40 am
Article here. It’s like Sisyphus and the rock a bit. People who know, know that Temple University Japan is a mediocre-for-the-money school. Additionally, there’s a black hole of funding, where the num...
NYT’s Tabuchi puts light back on Japan corporate’s “Boredom Room”. 17 Aug 2013 | 04:28 pm
Coincidentally, this was just the subject of a Dilbert comic strip the other day. Sony is described in the article as using the Boredom Room as aggression against employees who refuse to take early re...
More missed opportunities with the Democrats for Obamacare again? 14 Aug 2013 | 07:15 pm
I have been wondering about this, as I am seeing the lackluster rollout here in Pennsylvania in advance of the October 1 open enrollment date. Bloomberg has been reporting that Enroll America recruite...
Six-fold jump in Americans giving up passports? Probably not. 10 Aug 2013 | 09:43 pm
Bloomberg has a template piece that shows up every couple years. As you may know, Americans who give up their citizenship are listed—or rather, supposed to be listed—in the Federal Register. This is t...
Temple keeps pissing Pennsylvania money away in Tokyo. 9 Aug 2013 | 09:44 pm
From the Form 990 for Fiscal Year 2011, made available just this past May (2013). The chargebacks, which appear on another financial report (the Deloitte-audited financials) only ever show about $100,...
More health insurance reform in Japan 5 Aug 2013 | 06:09 pm
From a couple of days ago, in Japan Today. Two key takeaways are that the LDP government is looking for senior citizens, especially well-off seniors, to pay more. Right now, it sounds like they get...
