The Monday Read: Off to New Waters

Ten days in Shikoku might be the cure

Just finished work (Saturdays are brutal in the eikaiwa world -for most schools that is by far the busiest day). Heading off to Shikoku tomorrow morning. Back in a week and a half.

See you then?

YouTube

Thank you for your support of the RetireJapan YouTube channel. Made a short video about the proposed changes to immigration law to make it easier to revoke permanent residency. The edgy thumbnail made it our best performing video ever 😉

Do you have any thoughts on the proposed changes? Or ideas for future YouTube videos?

WISE in The Philippines

Seems that WISE just started operating in The Philippines. Big fan of their service.

The Forum

The Forum is doing well (35,409 posts so far). Excitingly, we now have over 2,000 registered members (2,184 currently). The forum rules are here. In essense, they are:

1. Be nice
2. Ask any question you like
3. Only answer questions when you have relevant knowledge or experience

Here are the latest active threads:

This week’s books

No new books this week. Still reading The Algebra of Wealth and The Invisibles. They are both good.

This week’s links

1. Completely off-topic, but I really enjoyed this (YouTube): A Day Making NYC’s Most Hyped Burgers at Hamburger America | On The Line | Bon Appétit
2. This could be great: Japan to introduce variable expressway tolls nationwide
3. Big fan of this guy -his new book is good too(YouTube): Scott Galloway’s Advice To Make Millions In Your 30s & 40s
4. The eternal question: Is the US stockmarket over-valued?
5. Wonder if it will make any difference to the yen? Once more into the breach | This week in Japanese politics
6. Hopefully this disgrace has now been sorted out: Record 80,000 Female Doctors in Japan, but Huge Gender Gap Remains
7. My version of fine-tuning is not to go anywhere near any of this stuff… kudos to Derek: Fine-tuning
8. Grim reading: Bank Of Japan Is The Dog That Caught The Car
9. I have an old clock I got from my grandmother: Clock
10. Clearly governments have very little in the way of levers they can use to change the birthrate: South Korea’s Ambitious Plan To Rescue Its Population
11. Not sure how I feel about this one: New Tokyo restaurant charges higher prices to foreign tourists than Japanese locals
12. Nice to see some examples: Japan is becoming more diverse. Will its government?
13. Even more reason to treat it like an emergency then: Economic damage from climate change six times worse than thought – report
14. Oh well: Japan Diet panel passes bill on foreign worker system, permanent residency revocation
15. This is pretty horrendous. Hope she wins: Muslim woman hopes for justice ahead of verdict on racial discrimination by Japan police

What do you think? Anything interesting in there?

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