I won a huge sum of money overseas

Hi everyone,

I just won over $100,000 in an initial settlement payment for a lawsuit I filed 5 years ago. My lawyers called me this morning and were shocked because I had already settled for over $150,000 with another party but they were paid in small installments of like 1% at a time and probably will never get to 50%, let alone 100%.

Since the release we signed did not include this other party they still assessed my claim value and offered a first payment. My lawyers are sending the documents my way sometime between this week and next week.

As I understand it, non-citizens who are not living in Japan for 5 of the past 10 years are considered to be non-permanent tax residents in Japan and this income should be tax free here.

Can anyone confirm this for me? I’m currently approaching year 2 here, originally came on a student visa and switched to an Engineer visa.