On 6 Feb 2004 07:58:12 -0800, hokousha2001@yahoo.com (Hokousha)
brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:

>Michael Cash <buggeroff@fake.com> wrote in message news:<csov101ru7bl0oo1ollfqj4o3pl1cg47je@4ax.com>...
>> You have no actual read need of the thing that I can think of, at
>> least until retirement. And by the then the system will have long ago
>> been bankrupted by fat-cat bureaucrats anyway.
>
>You'll need it to claim the lump-sum disbursement if you leave Japan.

Yes, the transient gaigin population will need it for that.  Employers
give it to you when employment is terminated, so this shouldn't
present a problem either. That 20% tax that gets removed from the lump
sum payment sucks, though.





--

Michael Cash

"I am sorry, Mr. Cash, but we are unable to accept your rap sheet in lieu of
a high school transcript."

                                Dr. Howard Sprague
                                Dean of Admissions
                                Mount Pilot College