The Monday Read: the End of Summer?
Welcome to The Monday Read, RetireJapan’s weekly collection of content, musings, and links related to personal finance and life in Japan. My daughter said this last week. “I think summer is over.” Now, that might initially seem like something an insane person would say, given that we’ve had 30+ days all week, but I think […]
Investing in Health: Home Gym
Making it easy to do the right thing (this is the latest in our ‘investing in health‘ series of blog posts) I’ve always struggled to maintain an exercise habit. Unlike saving or investing, it is not really possible to put it on autopilot. Over the years I have been a runner (was doing 30km practice […]
Giving Progress 2018
Start now There are basically two schools of thought regarding giving money away. One says that you should wait until you are rich/comfortable, at which point you will be able to give away more money. The other says that if you don’t give money away when you only have a little, you won’t do so […]
iDeCo Progress 2018
Slow and steady iDeCo is a retirement account (like a US 401k) that locks up your money until you are sixty years old. In exchange, you get to invest pre-tax income (which reduces your income taxes) and won’t get taxed on your investments while they are in the account. When you eventually cash out you […]
NISA Progress 2018
The slow steady grind A NISA account is a way to invest without paying capital gains tax or taxes on dividends. Pretty much anyone who lives in Japan can open one. For more information, check out our Beginner’s Guide to NISA Accounts in Japan. Every year I write a progress report so you can follow […]
The Monday Read
Getting used to the new site Writing this in WordPress instead of Weebly Well, we’re settling into our new home. Finding a lot of little things to fix so give us until next week and then if you notice anything after that please let us know 🙂 Here are this week’s links: I should start […]