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I am with you, the numbers and calculations really confuse me. Just wanted to share my numbers until now in case they help. (However, I don’t know about deferment at all.) I have been paying to PMAC for 24 years with a salary range of 6-10 million. My pension (both public and private combined) right...

I am not sure where you are located, but getting a report from CIC in Shinjuku in Tokyo was quite easy, if you can visit them. When I had the problem with my JICC report being blank, my real estate agent advised me to go to CIC directly the next day, and I was able to get my report the same day. And...

The same thing happened to me when I was applying for a mortgage and getting my credit report from JICC. The problem was exactly what someone suggested in an earlier thread, my name did not match the report. I have a middle name as well, but the katakana at JICC and what I was using to try to get th...

Thank you very much for the reassuring responses! I will stick to this simple strategy for stocks which is what I was hoping would suffice for my purposes. I am also glad to hear about the increase in IDeco contributions; I trust that I can find all the information here when the time comes as to how...

Hello, I have been following and reading here for a long time, and I have received SO much useful information from here on several topics, including when I bought a house a few years ago. However, this is my first posting, but I decided to do that because I know I will probably get great advice on m...