The Monday Read: Banshee and Focus
Welcome to The Monday Read, RetireJapan’s weekly collection of content, musings, and links related to personal finance and life in Japan. I’ve been binging Banshee, a TV show from 2013, this week. It’s a bit hit and miss, but I love the starting titles and theme tune. The titles change each time and foreshadow the […]
The Monday Read: Heat degrades productivity
Welcome to The Monday Read, RetireJapan’s weekly collection of content, musings, and links related to personal finance and life in Japan. It’s not actually that hot in Sendai (comparatively), and the humidity has been a lot less oppressive than in recent memory, but it does drag on. The fact that it doesn’t get much cooler […]
The Monday Read: 200th Edition
Welcome to The Monday Read, RetireJapan’s weekly collection of content, musings, and links related to personal finance and life in Japan. This is our 200th Monday Read on the new blog (here’s the first one, from 2018!). I don’t think we can claim 200 in a row, but we haven’t missed many Mondays in the […]
The Monday Read: Noticing
Welcome to The Monday Read, RetireJapan’s weekly collection of content, musings, and links related to personal finance and life in Japan. I’ve been really impressed with my phone camera recently. Found this crab on the path on my way to work the other day and took a quick pic, but the quality is unreal. Funnily […]
The Monday Read: Finding Treasure
Welcome to The Monday Read, RetireJapan’s weekly collection of content, musings, and links related to personal finance and life in Japan. That dragonfly was just sitting on the fence when I got to work. I guess it was too hot for dragonflies as well as humans that day. Recently I find myself stopping to take […]
The Monday Read: Borrowing Nice Things
Welcome to The Monday Read, RetireJapan’s weekly collection of content, musings, and links related to personal finance and life in Japan. Last week I needed to drive somewhere and my wife was using her car. There is a Toyota Rentacar just down the street, so I booked a car through them. You get a slight […]
The Monday Read: little everyday joys
Welcome to The Monday Read, RetireJapan’s weekly collection of content, musings, and links related to personal finance and life in Japan. Photos cannot do justice to the sky we had on Saturday. It was breathtakingly spectacular. And gone in a few minutes. Noticing it, and taking a moment to appreciate it, was a tiny everyday […]
The Monday Read: Spending Time and Money
Welcome to The Monday Read, RetireJapan’s weekly collection of content, musing, and links related to personal finance and life in Japan. Well, I am enjoying being back in Sendai. It is home, after all. My diet has slipped, but I am going to get back on track tomorrow. Exercise is going well, I’m doing a […]
The Monday Read: Miyakojima
Welcome to The Monday Read, RetireJapan’s weekly collection of content, musing, and links related to personal finance and life in Japan. Spent the last four days on Miyakojima with my wife. It was my first trip to Okinawa Prefecture, and I was very pleasantly surprised. Miyako is great. Small, sleepy, not too many tourists (compared […]
The Monday Read: Natto for Life
Welcome to The Monday Read, RetireJapan’s weekly collection of content, musing, and links related to personal finance and life in Japan. This week, after 23 years in Japan, I started eating natto. I’m sure this had nothing to do with the fact that I recently kind of decided to naturalize here 😉 I had tried […]