GUEST POST: Easily filing your taxes in Japan as a freelancer or small business
Today’s guest post is for people who might need help filing their taxes: freelancers, small business owners, etc. Robert runs a service helping people learn to use software to do this easily and reduce the time and stress involved with filing taxes. Personally I also need to get better at this kind of thing, so […]
Guest Post: Getting solar panels in Japan in 2024
Might be worth looking into This is not quite a full guest post, but rather is adapted from a post in the RetireJapan Forum. The author kindly agreed to let me run it on the blog as I found it very useful. For those of us in Tokyo there are still huge government subsidies for […]
Guest Post: Solar Panels in Japan in 2023
I contacted three different providers and asked each for an estimate for a solar power generation system equipped with a storage battery. Two of them provided me with two sets of estimates (with and without), while another just gave one (with).
Guest Post: The Road Not Travelled
Leaving Japan to retire Today we have a new guest post from Mason Dixon, this time about retiring not in Japan. I am currently planning to stay in Japan indefinitely ,but it is always interesting to hear from people who are further along in the journey, and I am a big fan of learning from […]
Energy, Climate change, and long-term investing
A really thought-provoking guest post Today’s guest post is by a reader who got in touch and offered to explain a few things about the implications of climate change. I found the conversation so interesting that I asked him to write about it for the blog, and he came through in spades. Take it away, […]
Guest Post: Book Review
Investment as a Liberal Education: How to Join the Business Elite I’m very pleased to have a guest post today from a new contributor, Richard Brash. He’s a seminary professor in Nagoya, and has written the book Smart Serendipity: The Essential Mindset Shift for Time-Rich Living. Take it away, Richard! It’s not often that I […]
Kosei Nenkin — Applying for Your Private School Pension
Ever wondered about how difficult it might be to apply? Wonder no more. Contributor par excellence Mason Dixon returns with another treatise that will be of interest to many of our readers: the exact process to apply for your pension. With RetireJapan as the single best source in assisting foreigners in Japan to plan for […]
Guest Post: Accidental FIRE
There is hope for all of us I’m thrilled to have something positive to post today. I think we all need some encouragement after the first nine months of 2020! Stewart Dorward, a member of the RetireJapan community, very kindly wrote a post about his coming retirement. Huge congratulations are in order and hopefully there […]
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 […]
Guest Post: Adoption in Japan
Some say it can’t be done, happily they are wrong I’m thrilled to bring you this wonderful guest post today on a really important topic. It’s of personal interest as my wife and I are considering doing this in the future, and it’s something that most people don’t know much about. I’m a huge fan […]