RetireJapan

I’m using the Monex Vision app to simulate my safe withdrawal amount, taking into consideration the changing asset mix of my remaining portfolio as the future events unfold. https://i.ibb.co/Xk7wCD5Q/IMG-5426.png One reason for not going by a fixed safe withdrawal rate is because I am currently rent...

I used to have Toyo Tires and Yokohama tires. Tires seem like a pretty stable business, so maybe I should have kept them. Yes. And Toyo Tires have excellent fundamentals, and high dividends coupled with a pretty modest dividend payout rate. Their US subsidiary has the coolest videos on their YouTub...

Thanks Ben and Tkydon! The conversion from Japanese numbers to English always gets me… Anyhow, the free inheritance allowance seems fine to me since the point of the inheritance tax is to keep wealth from becoming concentrated in a privileged class.

The 160,000 million yen tax free inheritance allowance for spouses seems pretty generous to me, ymmv.
https://www.nta.go.jp/taxes/shiraberu/t ... u/4158.htm

A really interesting video. Thanks for uploading it. I googled for the momentum effects of passive investing and this article from 2021 came up. It goes into some detail on the various studies which have been done on this topic. Food for thought! The Consequences of Passive Investing by Chris Yates ...

I think that a part of it is driven by the smart money getting out of overvalued assets and into assets which are comparatively indervalued (& of course, flight to safety), but yes the Japanese stocks I picked up last year haven’t been too shabby (having said that, my Peptidream and Ulvac stocks...

This year, I made my kakuteishinkoku income tax payment via the F-REGI website , which allows you to pay your taxes with a credit/debit card. https://i.ibb.co/Qj1X9G9X/2025-03-13-17-53-42-koukin-f-regi-com-d6dbbcd9ced5.png There is a quite a high charge for going this route, which works out at somet...

Sony bank also offers 0.8% now on 1 year time deposits. If you want to deposit more than 10M yen at a bank, it's good practice to split them up between several banks so your money is covered by the national deposit insurance (protects up to 10M yen for money you keep in current and time deposit acco...

Thanks for the chart. The risk of a strengthening yen is definitely the elephant in the room!

Just a heads up for residents of Setagaya.

TIL that the Setagayaku Chuo Library has quite a sizable English language books section. Maybe a good way to save money, if you like books?