1. Effects of Pension & Tax refund time for continuation on working in Japan In case you plan to permanently reside in Japan, when you already paid for the pension for 10 years, that when you reach 65 years old, you can receive the pension from Japan Government every month.In the other hand, if you just plan to return to work in Japan in a short period (for 2 - 3 years). We recommend you to get pension refund. If you don't do the refund and then resume to work in Japan, you won't be able to get the previous pension. Because of the limitation that you are only able to get the pension of 36 months.2. Can not process tax refund while the pension refund is in progress Only when the pension refund finish, they will be able to start tax refund since this process requires the receipt from the tax refund. The receipt is called 脱退一時金 (Dattai ichi jikin). 3. It has to be your own bank account for bank certificate.4. In case your pension notebook is lost, please submit us your pension notebook number and your name written in Katakana.5. Solution for finding the pension notebook numberIf you already get the pension refund, you can check in the receipt of pension refund where they will have the pension number noted there. If you have not received the receipt or lost, we suggest calling to the Japan Pension Service to check those information.