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Typhoon Edition I hope everyone is safe out there. The typhoon looks pretty gnarly! YouTube Thank you for your support of the RetireJapan YouTube channel. New content coming soon. Maybe. The Forum The Forum is doing well (23,490 posts so far). Here are the latest active threads: This week’s books Finished Stephen King’s Fairy Tale. […]
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Course Launch Edition This week was the first session of the RetireJapan online course, Your First Ten Million Yen. The course sold out in just a couple of days this time, which was amazing. We’ll be doing another one in January (just in time for all those new year resolutions) so if you are interested […]
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Intermittent Fasting and Cold Showers Edition Regular readers will be amused that I am still trying to find some gimmick to make myself healthier. My wife’s been taking cold showers for a couple of years now, but I thought that was a bit extreme for me and not something I had the willpower for. I’ve […]
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Getting Things Done Edition Now that I am no longer working full-time (or unemployed, as my wife puts it) I am finding I have so much more energy and motivation to do things. Just finished writing the 2022 edition of The RetireJapan Guide to NISA. It is 50% longer than the previous version, and well […]
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Pain Edition This has been a very mixed month for me. In some ways, it has been fantastic. My work situation is more flexible and I am feeling energised. On the other hand, I have injured both hands (one falling off a bicycle, one at jiu-jitsu) and then last Monday I wrecked my back carrying […]
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Obon Edition I had a very pleasant and restful break over obon this year. Had been hoping to go to jiu-jitsu class every day, but ended up hurting my hand so hung out with my wife instead 😉 Ate a lot, read a few books, thought about life. I hope everyone had some restful time […]
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Retirement Round Two Edition Regular readers are probably tired of me whining about working as an emergency replacement teacher at my wife’s school from March. I am too! So it was with some degree of anticipation that I welcomed my replacement last Wednesday. I am tentatively going to ease into pseudo-retirement now, doing a couple […]
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Need to Deal with Twitter Again Edition Over the last few weeks I have found myself spending more and more time on Twitter. And not in a good way. This seems to happen to me every six months or so. I slowly end up spending more and more time on social media, finding myself posting […]
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Jiu-jitsu/Freedom Edition Well, I have another week of full-time teaching left. In early August my wife’s new teacher will start, and I will finally be able to transition to a more balanced schedule, where I have time for myself and RetireJapan as well as helping with my wife’s school. You cannot imagine how much I […]
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Happy Cake Day Edition Two good updates in a row -something bad must be about to happen 😉 My daughter and granddaughters made a carrot cake for me this week -and it only took a couple of weeks of whining on my part! Those red things are cranberries, which worked surprisingly well. Delicious. Sadly it […]