The Monday Read
Summer is here edition I’m actually enjoying the weather at the moment, weirdly. It feels a lot less humid than it did last week, and it’s nice to see the sun. Having a fan nearby almost constantly helps too! We wrote a guide to beating the summer heat a long time ago, and although it […]
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Feeling Human edition Well, it might be the fact that today was glorious (somewhat sunny, cool breeze, low humidity) or because I started getting up earlier in the morning, but I’m feeling pretty good. Better than I have during the last few months, anyway. Feel like my brain is firing better. I might even manage […]
The Monday Read
Go To Your Home and Stay There Please edition What’s up, happy campers? Here in Sendai we are having a very mild summer. This appears to be the new normal. The end of September is then really hot for some reason. The government stubbornly went ahead with the Go To campaign even though pretty much […]
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Don’t GoTo edition Having been quite lucky with the first few months of the pandemic, the Japanese government has decided that life is not interesting enough, and is pressing ahead with promoting tourism (the GoTo campaign), reopening sports (sumo, baseball, etc.) with spectators, and generally behaving as if the virus has just gone away. I […]
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My Number shenanigans edition I hope everyone is doing okay out there. The rain and floods look pretty scary. I got an email this week from our HR department at work, talking about changes to the My Number system. There are basically two big ones that happened in May this year. The first change is […]
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Third time’s a charm edition Once again the Monday Read is going out on a Wednesday. Perhaps it is time we changed the name? Both my wife and I got emails today saying we’d won the right to buy Sharp masks -either we are very lucky or no one wants them any more 😉 Life […]
Author Profile: Ken Seeroi
Japanese Rule of Something I’ve been enjoying Ken Seeroi’s blog, Japanese Rule of 7, for a while now. It’s funny, doesn’t take itself too seriously, but from time to time it comes up with some really sharp observations about life in Japan. Well, not my life in Japan, because I tend to go home and […]
The Monday Read
Slowly easing back into it We’re on a bit of a roll now -two in a row 🙂 Occasionally a link will expire: my apologies. The Monday Read content gets gathered from when the previous Monday Read goes up, then goes on the blog, then eventually gets sent out in the weekly newsletter. The lag […]
New NISA, iDeCo, and Pension Rules
Ch ch ch ch changes Over the last few weeks we’ve seen announcements about new rules for NISA and iDeCo, a new option to take nenkin even later, and a promising expansion of kosei nenkin eligibility. NISA We wrote about the changes coming to NISA a couple of months ago. I saw a pamphlet issued […]
The Monday Read
Long time no write This is the first Monday Read this month! Which is a pretty poor state of affairs. I apologise for depriving you of your weekly entertaining email/annoying inbox clutter. We’ve also been remiss in terms of writing any actual content for the blog. Have a couple of posts lined up though, so […]