Matrix wrote:

> I realized from the pass week of experience, banks in Japan is very
> stupid in handling international money transactions. Can someone tell
> me how i can send money from US to JP to a existing credit card
> account to pay off the credit card bills? The credit card company is
> quite big in JP but the branches in US don't handle any "normal"
> customers, only businesses. So I am trying to find out the best
> cheapest safest way to accomplish this.
>
> So far i have try wiring money from BofA to JP bank but Japanese
> credit card company don't know the swift number(routing number) very
> stupid. So what else can i do? Any help would be appricated!!! Thanks

My Japanese credit card company automatically takes it out of my
designated Japanese bank account. It is simple enough to have money
wired there from the US, just a matter of telling the bank which bank
and account number. It will be a lot easier if you have someone on the
US end to do it for you.

My US credit card account, which is the one I almost always use, at
least when the dollar was strong, is paid from my US checking account.
The only issue there is receiving my statements and sending my payments
to them before the due date, lest they penalize me for "late" payment.
Citi used to send me statements late, so I switched to my home bank.