Hire RetireJapan
Coaching, Consulting, and Presenting My Muppet alter ego. Better-looking than the original? Sharp-eyed people who hang about on the RetireJapan site (are there any?) may have noticed we have a new page. A few people have asked me to help them with specific problems like getting started with personal finance, setting up a broker account, […]
Renovating a House in Japan 2
Three options My in-laws’ place is in an incredible location We’re still working on the house project. Quick summary: My wife’s parents live about 20 minutes from us, in a 40-year old steel frame house. We first considered knocking their house down and building a two-generation house so we could live with them, but this […]
The Monday Read
February 26th, 2018 Found something interesting on Reddit this week. Made me laugh, then made me worry slightly. Does everyone hate the writing style on RetireJapan? I haven’t noticed any notable news stories, so here are some links I found interesting this week. Who is your boss? Are you happy with that? Always enjoy Derek […]
Ten Things I Will Buy When I Am Rich
Maybe I am already rich? I saw this post by Retire by 40 the other day, and liked the concept enough to rip it off 🙂 From his list, I agree with four items, completely disagree with another four, and we already have the other two… see if you can guess which are which, and […]
Credit Scores in Japan (JICC): A Beginner’s Guide
Discover how to check your credit score in Japan using JICC. Understand the step-by-step process, what the report reveals, and whether it’s worth it for you.
The Monday Read
A new type of post For the last couple of years we’ve been posting links to interesting articles on Facebook. Unfortunately that means that most of our readers will never see the vast majority of them because Facebook has a policy of only showing content to a fraction of the people who like a page […]
Inheritance Tax in Japan 2
The government blinked You may remember we were talking about the inheritance tax reforms last year. Basically short-term residents (under ten years, working visa) were not liable for inheritance tax on estates outside Japan. At the same time long-term residents (over ten years, spouse or PR visa) became liable to pay Japanese inheritance tax for […]
Annuities in Japan
What is available? A reader sent me this article about an annuity product on Monday and asked for my reaction. I’m not too familiar with the annuity market here in Japan, so I thought this might be a good chance to take a look at what an annuity is, how to think about them, and […]
Slack Part 2
The slackening? Enough time to lose to my granddaughter at Carcassone Last year while spending a few days on Koh Samui in Thailand I wrote the first post on the benefits of having slack in your life. As in that first post, we’ll be using the definition of slack as “the loose or unused part”. […]
Financial Advisors
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts We’ve written about this before (in fact, it was the first post on the blog, and the reason RetireJapan was born).I received a very pleasant message from someone the other day asking about writing a guest post for the blog or posting in the forum. They offered to provide people […]