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National Pension Plan

All registered residents of Japan between 20 and 59 years of age is obliged by law to enroll in National Pension.

Enrollment Procedure

If you are a registered resident under 20 years of age, you do not need to file an enrollment notification. If you become a registered resident after reaching 20 years of age, you will have to complete enrollment procedures at the service counter of the municipal office administering your address.
For more information about the enrollment procedure, click here.

How to Pay Your Premiums

Within two weeks after you reach 20 years of age, or after completing enrollment procedures, you will be sent invoices that you can use to pay your premiums. Please use these invoices to pay your premiums at a convenience store, etc. You can also choose to pay your premiums by account debit or by credit card.
Note: If you are having difficulty paying your premiums due to a low income or other reason, you can apply for a premium exemption/payment postponement or a student payment exception program.
For more information about premiums and exemption/postponement, click here.

About Receiving Pension Benefits

Basic Pension for the Elderly
You are entitled to receive this pension from the age of 65 if the combination of the period you paid the premium for the National Pension Plan and the period you were exempted from paying it totals ten years or more.

Basic Pension for the Disabled
You are entitled to receive the basic pension for the disabled if you become disabled through illness or injury and undergo your first examination before your twentieth birthday, or while you are enrolled in the National Pension Plan. Complete payment of pension premiums is a requirement.

Basic Pension for the Bereaved
If a National Pension Plan member passes away, the wife and child, husband and child or child of the deceased is entitled to receive the basic pension for the bereaved if the member had been paying the premium.

If You Leave Japan

If you are not living in Japan when you become entitled to receive the pension, it will be sent to you.