About The Leaving Ledger

The Leaving Ledger is an English-language magazine about ending a long stay in Japan. The site covers the countdown to departure, the paperwork and money side of leaving, and the return home. The sections are Leaving Japan, Paperwork and Money, Return and After, and Resources. The magazine runs fifteen to eighteen pages, one page per question, and each page names its own official Japanese source.

The articles are written for foreign residents in Japan who are preparing to leave, for people who have just left Japan, and for the family, partners or employers helping them through it. The tone is plain and concrete. The second person is used throughout. Every organisation and every public body is described in the third person. No marketing language, no superlatives and no exclamation marks are used. The texts are based on public sources, and those sources are named in each article. Where a public source does not answer a question, the article states that limit. No advice is sold, and no service for expatriates is run.

The site is edited by The Leaving Ledger editorial team. It is hosted on Cloudflare, collects no personal data, uses no cookies and no tracking. The magazine does not mention any former owner of the domain, any ebook, or any partner. A page does not invent a person, an address, a phone number, a registration number or a date. The only facts given on the site are the editorial name, the email contact@sayonarajapan.com, the hosting provider, the data and cookie practice, and the public sources named in each article.

The site is for readers who need to check a step, find the official source, and move on. Each page is short, structured and linked to the source that supports it.