RetireJapan

Shimoda Life has mentioned in some of his earlier videos the processes and costs of buying a mountain.

He's also on Facebook in the https://www.facebook.com/groups/buildin ... useinjapan group if you'd like to speak with him directly.

You're confusing keiei safety kyousai (previously known as tousan boushi) with shokibo kigyo kyousai. The former is bankruptcy prevention, the latter is a retirement fund. keiei safety kyousai is a scheme where you may deposit between 5,000 to 200,000 yen up to a maximum of 8,000,000. They can be co...

Summary: bought some eMaxis slim S&P500 this year and sold them for a profit. The numbers in profit loss statement (売却損益明細) and the actual withdrawal statements (投資信託　約定明細) are off by 57 yen. Can anyone explain why? Actual history. I bought 1,000,000 yen worth of eMaxis slim S&P500 back in M...

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Not much use for the regular employee unless you can convince your company to switch DC providers, but it's wonderful news for the self-employed among us.

I have two parts to my emergency fund. I have a couple M stashed away in a bank that I don't use. I have several million more that I'd like to keep up with the world economy and not inflate away to nothing. Hence my looking for short term T Bills, preferably 6 months - 1 year but I'll take what I ca...

Question in title. I'm looking to hold parts of my emergency fund / spare cash into those, so somewhere between 3~5m yen. A quick search shows that VGSH is available at SBI. VIFSX and VUSXX don't seem purchaseable? Are there any others? https://investor.vanguard.com/investment-products/etfs/profile/...

I went with a local builder while a friend used Ichijo. We're in the same area with similarly sized houses. My cost was around half of his. I don't have any particular complaints about my place or builder, they did a good job. But when I look at my friend's place, the fit and finish, attention to de...

Well that sucks, 2019 and 2020 were incredible years for me. I've got over 4m in both of those years. woah - what did you invest in? That is a 350% ROI over 5 years! Nothing special, just AAPL, MSFT, AMZN and GOOG. I expected these to go up so I bought them inside NISA. My ETFs and eMaxis are in st...

Well that sucks, 2019 and 2020 were incredible years for me. I've got over 4m in both of those years.

Stupid question time. The 2019 NISA doesn't rollover direct into the new NISA?