RetireJapan

Thanks for your help everybody. It’s really appreciated.

Hey everyone. Unfortunately I’m going through the middle of a divorce, and I can see it’s going to be in my best interest to stop my Tsumitate NISA (and iDeCo) until everything is finalized. Is there a way to temporarily stop my monthly payments until everything is sorted out? I really don’t want to...

Monex came yesterday.

Many, many times. Mainly because my hobbies make me a target (Sorry, I don’t want to say what they are). The police even knew me by name. lol But they’ve always been polite and I’ve never had a problem. There was one time where they could have absolutely thrown the book at me. I was blasted drunk co...

For me it’s too early to say. I’ll really need to see what the economy in Japan is like, how my iDeCo and NISA are doing, what my family situation is, my health, etc. Once I’m around 60 I’ll take a good hard look at things. I voted for 65 because that’s currently what I’m thinking, but I doubt I’ll ...

It’s funny that even a post about the Japanese pension gets turned into a post about the UK pension

Also, a thought I had. I think many of us here are married to a Japanese wife. With how long women in Japan live, and the lack of survivors pension after 65, it may be a good idea to take your pension at 65 or 70, and have you wife delay taking her pension until 75. It will leave her with an extra 8...

The Rational Reminder YouTube channel recently made a video on this topic. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C66FqW4Bmyc It was very interesting, and changed my mind on this topic. Worth a watch if you’re unsure about delaying your pension or not. It’s Canadian based, but it seems to be very similar to ...

This reminds me of the time there was a “Whale Festival” at my local port. They had free whale soup (pretty gross in my opinion), whale bone goods, and the “RESEARCH” whaling ship. You could go on and get a tour of the ship. This was during the height of the Greenpeace “terrorist attacks” against th...

I was asking some friends and people I know about Furosato Nozei, and I was surprised the majority opinion was it’s a terrible, unfair system and should be done away with.