The Monday Read
May disease edition May disease (５月病) is a sense of malaise that hits children and adults in May. Presumably the excitement of new colleagues, classmates, and situations in April has worn off, the Golden Week holidays have been and gone, and life seems a lot less fun now that we have three months until any […]
The Monday Read
Summer in the air It’s getting warm (and humid!) up here in Sendai. Get the feeling this is going to be a long, hot summer. Might be a good time to review our top ten tips to cope with summer heat here in Japan 🙂 Here are this week’s links If we’re going to subsidise […]
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Road to Damascus edition This week’s Monday Read comes to you from Tallinn Airport, where I am killing time (seizing the moment?) before flying back home via HEL (sinki) and Nagoya. I spent the last six days at a jiu-jitsu training camp, and my mind was blown by meeting a guy called Priit Mihkelson. His […]
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Tallinn edition Well, I am in Tallinn this week. First time here, quite liking it so far. Here are this week’s links: Customer service in Japan is pretty good until you go off-script: The Dark Side of Japan’s Customer Service Pretty inspiring: Two Years Of FIRE: Sometimes, You Just Have To Leap 48% of men??? […]
The Monday Read
Golden Week Edition! I presume no-one will read this, as you’re all on holiday and not wasting time at work 😉 I am planning to have an excellent Golden Week. I am going to stay home, sleep a lot, go to jiu-jitsu every day, take naps, play with the grandkids, and maybe write some stuff […]
The Monday Read
Pre-GW edition It’s been a good month for RetireJapan. We wrote a guest article for the AllAboutJapan site (a quick guide to investing in Japan) and hopefully we’ll have another cool announcement next week 🙂 Here are this week’s links: Don’t know if ‘opt’ is the correct word here: Retiring late: More Japanese opt to […]
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The snow is gone now thankfully We had our final snowfall this week. Snow under the cherry trees. Thankfully it didn’t last long 🙂 We’re more than a quarter through 2019. How is your year going? Are you making progress towards your financial goals? Do you have financial goals? I’m feeling very mid-life crisis-y at […]
The Monday Read
Back to school edition Well, my granddaughter goes back to school tomorrow, and my uni classes start up again too. Kind of bittersweet: looking forward to the new academic year but a little sad to be busy again 🙂 Here are this week’s links If you are feeling weak, worthless, weary, you may need help: […]
The Monday Read
New Era starts tomorrow Ooof, can’t believe it is April already. Wonder what the new Era will be called? Guess we will find out very soon 🙂 Here are this week’s links: Not often: How Often Is It a Stock-Picker’s Market? Online application? Great. Can only be done through an agent or company? Not great. […]
The Monday Read
Hot? Cold? Warm? What’s going on with the weather? Still busy, still a bare-bones Monday Read. Enjoy! It’s all in your mind: there is no speed limit. Sounds promising: Is Mark Zoril the World’s Most Famous Financial Advisor? This is a great list: 16 things I know are true but haven’t quite learned yet Saw […]