RetireJapan

Hi all. I am a long time renter (subsidized housing) and I have never had any sort of home insurance. Extremely silly on my behalf, I know. I figure that now I am a full grown somewhat responsible adult, I should get some sort of coverage. I’d like to get coverage for my personal possessions as the ...

Looks like docomo and Monex finally announced the points for buying mutual funds with the d card and d card gold. Things are looking pretty good to be honest. They even have a campaign for a short period to earn 5 percent points on mutual funds!

https://info.monex.co.jp/lp/2406cp_dpoint_1.html

The thing I’m really struggling with is making the payments. I got a letter telling how much I owe for each year that I have missed and I that I can make payments for those years from the site they list. Turns out I can’t do that because I don’t live in England. Apparently expats have to add up the ...

JAL Club EST for sure. You get to use the Sakura lounge and 5 years expiration limit on your miles!

I called HMRC yesterday to check up on my application. Only had to wait 45 minutes

I took the chance to ask about the abolition of class 2. I was informed that it is not being abolishes for voluntary payments! Yatta~!

Hi all. I (foreigner) have a NISA and my Japanese partner keeps telling me they’d like to start a NISA but she wants to fully understand it first. Great thinking in my humble opinion. However, she doesn’t seem to be making any headway. When I ask she just says I’ll check next weekend. Next weekend r...

I wonder if this is a way to get rid of the older foreigners who have retired and can’t afford to pay their health insurance and taxes any more. Forget about everything they have contributed to Japan over the last 40-50 years. They are a drain on society, get rid of them. Very worrying!

that sounds very good indeed.. however the issue is my nisa is currently with monex.. Looks like we’ll be able to do Monex tsumitate with dCard from the summer. But there aren’t any fine details yet. I’m waiting to find out about the percentage of points. If it’s not great I’ll move my nisa to SBI ...

Nice idea for a discussion.

JAL visa
Saison gold Amex
Saison international MasterCard (only applied for the sign up bonus)
Ana gold jcb
Rakuten visa

Going to apply for the platinum preferred card soon. Massive points for tsumitate nisa. Massive point for Expedia and can be transferred to miles.

I went with Wise in the end. Neither lloyds nor sbi could tell me if any other banks needed to be used to send the money! Thanks for the help!