JET Archives - Casey Corbin

Flight Review: Delta Flight 7 from LAX to Haneda (January 2018)

This was one of my earliest blog drafts, which reviewed my study abroad flight from LAX to Tokyo-Haneda in January 2018. Please enjoy!

When leaving Japan, you’ll likely apply for your pension withdrawal, but 20% is withheld for tax! This guide will show you how to get it back

SoftBank is one of Japan’s largest internet service providers. This guide aims to help you cancel SoftBank Hikari with minimal headaches.

When you’re a JET, you may return home. This guide shows you how to complete your lump sum pension withdrawal application.

When you’re a JET, you get to decide how long you want to stay. Most JETs make their recontracting decision at the end of the year. Let’s go!

In short, it depends on how you define expat or immigrant. This article discusses my thoughts on whether JETs are expats or immigrants.

When you’re an American JET, you need to file taxes to the U.S.A. in addition to Japan. This article offers tax software recs for U.S. JETs.

Japanese employees, particularly public servants, literally move their desks across the office every fiscal year. Click here to read more.

Are you a future or prospective JET? Are you moving to Fukuoka Prefecture as an ALT? This post may answer all your questions!

Japan is regarded as a clean country, but how clean is it really? Sometimes, soap is nonexistent in public restrooms. Here are my thoughts.