The Monday Read: Hospital Again

Welcome to The Monday Read, RetireJapan’s weekly collection of content, musings, and links related to personal finance and life in Japan.

I had an operation last Thursday, my second one in Japan.

This time was much shorter (3 nights vs. 3.5 weeks in hospital), different hospital (medium sized clinic vs. large general hospital) and so far completely different outcome (no post-op pain so far vs. months of pain and weakness). It’s all turned out rather well 🙂

I’ll be writing more about it soon on the blog and probably on the YouTube channel. お楽しみ！

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This week’s books

I’ve been reading Dotcom Secrets, by Russell Brunson, and I wish I had read it years ago. Really interesting stuff. Going to see if I can use it for my wife’s school.

I’ve also been reading (and re-reading) some novels, mainly because I was in hospital for four days with no computer and no internet (other than my smartphone). The Doors of Eden, by Adrian Tchaikovsky, and the first three Reacher books by Lee Child.

Really looking forward to the next Reacher series on Amazon Prime. The first one was pretty perfect, and went a long way to erasing the travesty that was Tom Cruise playing Reacher…

This week’s links

1. I’ll have to come back to this again, I think: Grief and Happiness
2. Downward pressure on the yen… June Wages and Consumer Spending Disappoint Again
3. Yep. I’m trying to figure mine out: Everyone Has Their Own Money Trauma
4. Some of this might work I guess: Japan Has the Worst Women’s Equality in the Developed World: How to Fix It!
5. Maybe I am getting too comfortable: Necessity Is The Mother of Badassity
6. New fad or useful – I haven’t tried this yet… Yakult 1000: The Surprising Health Drink That’s Storming Japan
7. Some great ideas in here, and I would love to get away from the heat: Japan’s ski resorts get creative in attracting summer visitors
8. Seems fairly reasonable. Nice to see some optimism: Bill Gates on the future of nuclear energy, AI
9. I love this idea of leaving stuff for future you to inherit: How to inherit a fortune
10. Alex Hormozi is so good at what he does: Launch event
11. This is very true in my experience. We have enough money now, but it doesn’t feel that way, and I just 10x my financial goal… You Probably Need Less Money Than You Think For Retirement

What do you think? Anything interesting in there?

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