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Sending money to Japan

Postby Hanakuso » Wed Jun 07, 2006 3:50 pm

Hey, I want to send some moolah to a friend in japan (no not you!)... Does anyone know how to best do that?
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Postby American Oyaji » Wed Jun 07, 2006 4:40 pm

If they have an account at a Japanese bank, the best way would be bank to bank wire, though that costs about $40 a pop.

Well, that's the best way that I know about.
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Postby Greji » Wed Jun 07, 2006 6:27 pm

Hanakuso wrote:Hey, I want to send some moolah to a friend in japan (no not you!)... Does anyone know how to best do that?


There's many ways to do this, postal orders, wire, bank transfers, etc.
There has been a ton of posts on this topic, so you might just want to try searching the board.

I'm not trying to jerk you around or belay an answer, but there are so many variants: how much, how fast, what currency, etc.
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Postby Catoneinutica » Wed Jun 07, 2006 7:36 pm

If you deposit a check at a Japanese bank, including Citibank Japan, be warned that you won't have access to the money for 3 or 4 weeks.
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Postby Hanakuso » Wed Jun 07, 2006 10:38 pm

gboothe wrote:There has been a ton of posts on this topic, so you might just want to try searching the board.



Hai, sumimasen...
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Postby Greji » Wed Jun 07, 2006 11:39 pm

Hanakuso wrote:Hai, sumimasen...


Hey, nothing to sumimasen about. As I said anyone would need more info to advise on this topic and some people (and I don't knows if you do or do not)don't like to post their money matters on the board. So if you do a search you may see your answer already posted.
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Postby kamome » Thu Jun 08, 2006 12:21 am

Wire transfer was the way I always sent money to and from Japan. You need the routing number, account number, bank name, name of branch, account beneficiary, and possibly a SWIFT code for the recipient account.
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Postby Hanakuso » Thu Jun 08, 2006 8:34 am

Yah , I just wanna send a couple o hundred bucks to a friend... all the methods that have been mentioned seem as though for larger sums.. Ill give my bank a call and see what they sugguest.. Thanks for the help anyways ppls..
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Postby Mulboyne » Thu Jun 08, 2006 8:37 am

Sounds like you should try Western Union then.
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Postby kamome » Thu Jun 08, 2006 8:38 am

Hanakuso wrote:Yah , I just wanna send a couple o hundred bucks to a friend... all the methods that have been mentioned seem as though for larger sums.. Ill give my bank a call and see what they sugguest.. Thanks for the help anyways ppls..


No, there is no minimum amount for sending a wire transfer (as far as I know).
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Postby GomiGirl » Thu Jun 08, 2006 12:19 pm

Anybody used moneybookers.com ?

PayPal does work OK too but you have to be super careful on entering the bank details in japan or the transaction will fail.]

Western union sounds like the best for this guy.
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Postby Hanakuso » Thu Jun 08, 2006 4:29 pm

western union'l cost me 35bucks... As far as I can tell , paypal is free?? If thats the case I think ill just be super careful...
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Sending money

Postby billyDe » Sun Jul 02, 2006 9:25 pm

Send a wire transfer which usually arrives the next day. I send a couple wires a week to myself from the US to my Japanese account. I always send the money in US dollars...then I transfer the funds to YEN at Tokyo Mitsubishi when it arrives. If you ask your foreign bank to exchange the funds to YEN, guaranteed they're gonna take a larger fee than a JP bank.
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