Review: Money Monster
Good film, not much personal finance I watched Money Monster on a plane headed for Europe (along with four other films -seems like I only ever watch films on planes now). It’s a good film. Engaging story and characters, mostly interesting plot, great pacing. Clooney and Roberts are great in it (and she normally annoys […]
Telephone Cold Calls
Here’s how we stop them… for good I’ve always hated telephone cold calls. Maybe there is someone out there that is just waiting for yet another company to call them with a great deal if they switch their internet provider, but I haven’t met them yet. I find it morally distasteful too, as they seem […]
Finimize
Short daily newsletter about financial topics A friend told me about Finimize in August, and I’ve been subscribing to it ever since. Basically they send you a short (3 minutes or less to read) email every day with summaries of financial stories. I get the Global edition, I think they have US and maybe European […]
Car Insurance in Japan
You get to have your cake and eat it I learned something new (and important) last week, so I want to share it with you today. So last Monday I was involved in a minor traffic accident (thankfully not much damage and no one was hurt). After calling (and waiting for) the police, the owner […]
Spouse not on Board
Houston, we have a serious problem… Today’s post is about a serious and common situation: when your partner or spouse is not on the same page as you regarding money.I promised to write about my experience with this a few weeks ago, so here it is: how my wife and I worked out our differences […]
Finance Blogger World Map
RetireJapan is now firmly on the map A couple of months ago I saw a comment about the Personal Finance Bloggers Map, and got in touch to ask them to add RetireJapan. Well, it seems we have arrived 🙂 There are a lot of interesting blogs on there. Have a click around!
Review: The Next Big Investment Boom
I wouldn’t take it literally The Next Big Investment Boom is for people who are really into investing and enjoy reading about it. This is not a book for beginners. If you are starting out check out the titles on our Resources page. I enjoyed this book, found it well-written, and was challenged by the […]
MSV Life
The ‘Vanguard Robo-Advisor’ in Japan I wanted to like MSV Life, I really did. After all, it’s a collaboration between Vanguard and some Japanese firms (Monex and Saison), it has low minimum investments (just 10,000 yen to open an account) and slightly lower fees (just under 1%) than some robos in Japan, and although they […]
Americans Abroad Financial Services
Something for US citizens for a change I feel bad. Many of the products and services we talk about here on RetireJapan are not available to US citizens and it’s very frustrating sometimes to try and give suggestions or advice. So I am really happy to introduce something today that is only for US citizens […]
RetireJapan Video
To boldly go… A few weeks ago a friend in Miyagi got in touch about making a video. After a bit of back and forth we decided to make an introduction to RetireJapan. We ended up shooting the video in a park (originally intended to shoot in my office, but the power was off!) and […]