Pension problem for foreigners
by Terrie Lloyd/ Japan Today Sept 23
...Not many people know it, but the way the pension system is structured at the moment, foreigners living in Japan for longer than three years but less than 25 years, wind up paying 9% of their salary (having to be matched by their employer) into the Japanese pension system without any way to receive benefit....This means that foreigners working for less than this period not only can't collect a pension here in Japan after contributing up to 37 million yen (the top contribution rate), but when they go home, they can't collect a pension there either ....