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Something was just not working. I just tried again, maybe 3 times! Finally, I changed from having the money come out of my Rakuten Bank account to having to come from the Securities account (which will just sweep it from the bank, so what's the difference?) and it worked. WHY?? Also, does Tsumitate ...

I didn't do any investing other than Ideco last year so I kinda forgot how to do alot of things (like all the investment-related kanji and terminology!) I decided to switch my regular NISA over to tsumitate. OK, done. In January, I chose the funds I wanted to purchase...and nothing happened. Maybe I...

Thanks for the answers everyone. I guess the consensus is NO... This is my first dog so I don't have any idea of how much vet procedures cost. Maybe I can find something that just covers big emergencies. I'm getting a bulldog. Beaglehound - That's also a problem for me. I'm not confident I can handl...

Maybe this is a bit weird topic, but does anyone have any experience with pet health insurance? I'm looking into getting a dog, which will be a first for me in Japan, so I was wondering if anyone has any advice or recommendations. Thank you.

I'm very lucky to be in a position that is unaffected (so far) by this outbreak. Thank you for your concern. Does anyone have experience with How to claim the 13-year Tax deduction? I was trying to get information from this page: https://resources.realestate.co.jp/news/how-to-claim-tax-deductions-a...

Of course, I always buy "no load" funds. So, I guess we're just talking about the yearly maintenance fees. My current funds are 0.154 each. The all country fund is 0.1144. Wouldn't it be better in the long run to sell the (relatively) more expensive ones?

What about the difference in fees? To be honest, I have no idea how the fees work. Is that something that gets subtracted when you sell? Or from any dividends?

I started NISA this year and I want to change my investments from having a separate world stock fund and a Japanese stock fund to just one all country stock fund. Should I sell what I currently have and then start over with the new all country fund? I would have to do this after the new year since t...

I was really hoping someone would reply to your post because I'm in the same boat. Have you been able to find something reasonable? Were you able to get a home loan? I could only get a Flat35 loan because it's the only kind that DOESN'T have the life insurance requirement. I'm hoping to get an insur...

I'm a nerd and I really wanted the Softbank Star Wars phone, but I'm not on Softbank and there weren't any new ones available anywhere online. So, I ended up getting one of Mercari. It was a risk, but it turned out OK for me. The phone gets stuck sometimes playing Pokemon GO, but that might just be ...