RetireJapan

Kokumin nenkin is 16,000 yen a month. After paying it most people should also be trying to max out iDeCo and invest extra on the side. This should take priority over things like having a car, eating out, or holidays. I don't do any of those three things, and not trying to be antagonistic here, by t...

https://www.ideco-koushiki.jp/english/ So this is a Japanese govt thing? Is it reliable? It looks more an investment thing than a guaranteed pension dealie? I'm not a gambler. Nor am I any way attuned to the world of financial investment. I have a long-term mortgage investment thing back home that's...

Having said that I don't have much time for whining about the government/the economy/Japan. At the end of the day you create your own reality. Everyone has problems: it's how you deal with them that makes the difference. If you're interested in doing that I'd be delighted to help any way I can. I t...

iDeCo. Is that a govt thing? What's to stop them just pocketing as much money as they can and then *blip* they're gone? Sorry. Obviously I don't know anything about money. I mean "finance". I just flat-out do not trust the government. Everyone posting on this website seem to have piles of...

Never paid into the pension. Read all the doom and gloom stories of it running out of $$ years back and thought why bother. Can I really trust these people? I don't see how anyone saves money in this economy. I work about 6 part-time gigs and at age 50, after funding child's overseas education (some...