The Monday Read: Chilled Xmas

Hope everyone is doing okay out there! Loads of snow on the Sea of Japan side of the country, thankfully over here on the Pacific side we’ve got sunny skies (albeit with a nasty wind).

Had a very chilled Christmas this year, dinner went off without a hitch and we watched Klaus on Netflix with the grandkids today -recommend it!

Quite a long Monday Read for you today, enjoy 🙂

RetireJapan TV

The second installment of RetireJapan TV airs this Monday, December 26th, at 20:00 live on YouTube. Come join us! It will be fun 🙂

Your First Ten Million Yen Cohort 2

I had a great time running the first cohort of the Your First Ten Million Yen Course last year, and our initial participants seemed to find the content useful.

So we got some feedback, reflected on what went well and what could be improved, and put together a new and improved version. The second cohort starts at the end of January and might be a good way to kick off 2023 if you are yet to get started saving and investing seriously.

Taking the course and getting your finances in order could be worth tens or hundreds of millions of yen to you -not a bad return on investment 😉

If it is not for you, perhaps you have a friend or colleague who might find it useful?

Do you like RetireJapan? Find it useful?

We’re still trying to reach and help as many people as possible in Japan. As well as sharing the site with people around you who might find it useful, it would be really great if you could leave us a quick testimonial here.

YouTube

Thank you for your support of the RetireJapan YouTube channel. We published two new videos this week: a guide to iDeCo on Rakuten Securities, including a quick evaluation of each of the 32 funds in their lineup, and a video answering questions submitted by people on social media.

And of course, we’ll be doing RetireJapan TV again on the evening of the 26th. See the link above for details.

If you haven’t subscribed to the channel yet, it would be great if you could do so as we are only fifty people short of our 2022 goal…

The Forum

The Forum is doing well (24,992 posts so far). Here are the latest active threads:

This week’s links

1. This is so true. Get the big financial decisions right, then the smaller ones don’t really matter: Staring at decisions
2. This is a great step forward but let’s also make building standards (insulation, ventilation, etc.) stricter: Tokyo’s solar panel mandate a major shift in a country where fossil fuels reign
3. This rang very true: WHAT I LEARNED AFTER 8 YEARS OF EARLY RETIREMENT
4. The new eternal NISA is nice and all, but the UK ISA is on another level: Half my deathbed’s ISA has disappeared
5. I have had largely positive interactions with the police here, but this story shows a need for systematic change in oversight: ‘Treated worse than an animal’: Man’s death in central Japan police cell angers father
6. This is one of my current struggles -do I quit social media, despite how useful it is for my work? Terminally Online
7. Another disgrace in Japan: Bad conditions for technical interns persist
8. Japan’s new security plans: Japan’s Zeitenwende
9. Really enjoyed seeing this side of Lex Friedman (YouTube): A day in my life
10. Interesting. Are cities going to continue getting denser in the future? How Transportation Technologies Shape Cities
11. Get good at playing defense: Don’t Try to Get Rich Twice
12. Not a fan of this. Would rather Japan invest in renewables rather than spend the enormous amounts of money nuclear plants cost: Japan adopts new policy promoting greater use of nuclear energy

What do you think? Anything interesting in there?

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