Leaving Japan for good takes about a dozen steps, and most of them have a window. The moving-out notice (転出届) can be filed only from 14 days before the flight. The landlord usually wants a month's notice. The pension lump sum can be claimed only after you leave, within two years, and the 20.42 % tax taken from it comes back only from the January after it is paid. The checklists I found list these steps, but none of them puts a date on them for your own flight.
So Japan Life Hub now has a leaving-Japan checklist.
Your steps with their dates
Enter the day you fly out, whether you work for a company, for yourself or not at all, where you live and whether you paid into the pension. Each step gets its first and last day, the place, and a sentence in Japanese to say at the counter. When the city office is closed on the last day, the date moves back to the last day it is open before your flight.
Tick them off
Mark each step done when you have done it. The plan counts what is left and puts the next step on top. It stays in your browser, and nothing is sent to us.
After you leave
The plan goes on after the flight. If you leave between January and May, it tells you that the city sends a resident tax bill in June, and that someone in Japan has to pay it. With a pension to claim, it gives the last day for the claim and the first day your tax representative can file to get the 20.42 % back.
The calendar button puts every date in your phone's calendar with reminders, and you can send the plan as text to the friend who will be your tax representative. It is free and in seven languages.
