Quote Originally Posted by Ziggurat View Post
Are you allowed to take that much cash into the country? It would also show up on x-ray when leaving. If it was declared in Japan wouldn't they ask where it came from?
I assumed it would not be carry on and would be checked in. The girl I was talking to had been in Australia for 2 years and had done it 4 times, not declaring leaving Australia and not declaring back in Japan in order to avoid questions and paying taxes

Don’t know if she put it into the bank in Japan or kept it stashed at her parents place but I’d assume that they have similar laws to us in money laundering so if she put it into the bank she could not put over a certain amount at once

The thing that freaked me out was that she room shared and I was like, but if you room share won’t that person possibly steal the money from you as she said she kept the money in her room but that was when she told me that all the girls in her house were in the Mirage / Platinum / Mystic group which kind of made sense. She said they pared up based on rosters so that when one girl was working the other had the room