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A couple examples of AI engineers moving to Tokyo (I know it's different) and sharing some thoughts on Twitter:

- David Ha w/ Google Brain: https://twitter.com/hardmaru

- Adam Gibson started Skymind in Silicon Valley and moved to Tokyo a few years back: https://twitter.com/agibsonccc

At least Japan lets non-permanent residents avoid taxes on income from abroad (that stays abroad) for the first 5 years. Depends on your home country whether this lets you avoid their taxes.

In some cases, this can save a lot of tax.

Do you have any information about this? I've been looking into the tax implications of moving to Japan recently and it's not been easy to sort through.

Just googling. It looks like it was a better situation pre2017 though:

www.mondaq.com/x/561782/tax+authorities/Change+In+Taxation+Of+NonPermanent+Residents

See an accountant/lawyer yada yada.

The bitcoiners that gave up their US citizenship, or otherwise left their home country and moved to Japan probably came out well tax-wise.

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