Re: [tlug] Receiving money internationally

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephenjturnbull@example.com>]

Edmund Edgar writes:

 > I'm not trying to by funny here but if you've negotiated compensation in
 > JPY, the natural habitat of a JPY is a Japanese bank account so can't you
 > just give them your Japanese bank account details and let them work out how
 > to get the JPY to it?

Fees, time, and reliability.  My experience with transferring money
from the US to Japan has been "of those three, choose none". ;-)

Maybe direct-to-bank is the best compromise, but which bank is also a
question.

Steve