You would probably be eligible for your work retirement in Japan esp if it was within a corporation's retirement plan. But we are still talking about a nation, the nation of Japan. So if you cannot draw on what you contributed in one country laws should be changed so that one can. That only seems fair. People should not be punished because they work in other countries.
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Yes, the laws should be changed, in keeping with changed reality of global migration, where workers might grow up in one country, work some in another country, work some more in yet another country, and retire at home or in yet another country. There ought to be multilateral agreements that allow workers either to transfer credits (for having paid into pension and health care systems) to the systems of their countries of residence or draw upon multiple countries' systems.
This year, though, nothing positive is likely to come about. The recent giant immigrant rights marches, however, probably -- I'll keep my fingers crossed -- scuttled the dreadful idea of making unauthorized immigration and assistance to undocumented immigrants federal crimes.
-- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>