The Nine Scariest Things About Owning a House in Japan
Godzilla doesn’t even make the list Steve S. posted a link to this article in a comment last month, and I kind of liked it so decided to do a Japanese version. So without further ado, here are my nine scariest things about owning property in Japan: 1. Loss of equity This the big one. […]
Tokyo Meetup
Sunday, August 6th Somewhere like this, maybe?Here’s a crazy idea š I’ll be in Tokyo in early August, so I was thinking maybe we could have a RetireJapan meetup in the early evening on Sunday the 6th (no presentation, just a chance to meet up and chat). Anyone interested? Details to be confirmed, but somewhere […]
Personal Finance Ability Scores
On the inside everyone looks the same I played Dungeons and Dragons in school, university, and for a few years here in Japan. For anyone who isn’t familiar with it, basically each character or creature in the game has their own attributes (strength, dexterity, intelligence, charisma, etc.). Some characters are better than others at certain […]
The Next Crash
Is coming… someday. The US stock market seems to be getting expensive. It looks somewhat like a bubble, but things aren’t the same as they were in 2007. Basically no-one knows what is going to happen, but there is going to be a stock market crash at some point. Could be this month, this year, […]
New RetireJapan Seminar
Save the date (September 9th in Kitakyushu) Tokyo event in March 2017 I’m really happy to announce there will be another RetireJapan seminarĀ this year, in Kitakyushu on September 9th. Right now this isĀ the only RetireJapan live seminar in the works, although I am also planning an online, more in-depth course in January together with iTDI […]
Overpaying Kokumin Nenkin
Only for ē¬¬1å·č¢«äæéŗč Greolieres, in the Southern Alps foothills near Nice. **I made a mistake in this post. I am going to leave the post as originally written, and explain the mistake and how it changes things at the bottom. I apologize for the sloppy writing -I should have done a bit more research.** This […]
Planning 2
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail Last week I wrote about making plans. I also said I would write my answers this week. So here they are š Where do you want to live in the future? I’m not sure. Rather, there isn’t anywhere I particularly want to live. I think a […]
Review: Morgan Housel
Just a really good writer Morgan Housel is one of my favourite finance writers. I first came across him when he was working at The Motley Fool because a lot of the blogs I read linked to his stuff. He has a writing style that combines interesting concepts with great stories, all wrapped up in […]
ē©ē« (tsumitate) NISA
A new option Last August I wrote about the new NISA proposals. A few things have changed since then, and the ē©ē« (tsumitate, or regular saving) NISA is starting next January. Let’s take a look at what it is and who might want to use it. First of all, regular NISA and Junior NISA accounts […]
Planning
Almost never works, but incredibly valuable nevertheless For the last couple of years I have been teaching personal finance in my English classes at university. You could say that this is me unfairly imposing my interests on the students, kind of like the teachers that would tell us about their camping holiday in secondary school. […]