By focusing on cross-border shopping services and gender stratification among overseas residents in Japan, this study investigates whether and how Daigou—overseas shopping services—has helped newly arrived Chinese housewives overcome social isolation and achieve better economic status in Japan. Employing in-depth interviews with 32 newly arrived Chinese housewives in Tokyo, this study explores the experiences of disjuncture from previous lives of Chinese women who entered Japan with dependent visa status. Those Chinese women who have entered Japan as dependents have difficulties participating in the Japanese labor market, such as lacking both Japanese language ability and social connections. Such difficulties have resulted in their living in relative isolation. However, with the rapid growth of the middle class in China, the demand for quality products from other countries has increased, giving overseas Chinese housewives opportunities to be engaged in transnational businesses. They accomplished this because of their flexible schedules, knowledge of Japanese products, and a shrewd sense of the market. By using the Taobao website or Weidian as a platform to display Japanese products and sell them to customers in China, newly arrived Chinese housewives have opened their own businesses in the international market. Since they have more free time than other Chinese residents in Japan (i.e., skilled professionals and students), they can easily establish their own business and manage it. Therefore, many Chinese dependents can earn money in the Chinese market instead of washing dishes and cleaning restrooms in Japan. It can then greatly improve their socio-economic status, hence improve their satisfaction with their life as foreign residents in Japan.