RetireJapan

A friend of mine could do this during covid. If he would have left he couldnt have come back (it was when Japan was still closed). This probably goes under special unavoidable circumstances.

Same here, no email or notification yet...

Same here. At the place where I live, the requirements are that the hanko needs to reflect any part of your official registered name (or an alias - which I dont have). I also went with my first name.

I am using softbank hikari since several years. It is stable and fast - no complains here.

Could you clarify that "DC management fees are paid by company" ? This doesn't mean the fee one would pay on each fund we invest in, right? Probably comparable to the ideco account fee (annual?) which one would pay choosing Monex, SBI etc. ? Not the fund fee. But Monex, SBI etc charge a s...

I am not sur which one I did, but because I do teeth grinding while sleeping ony one was good, I think it was Zirconia. Cost was 77,000 JPY.

I use Money Tree for getting an overview of my accounts (Japanese Brokers, Ideco, Nisa etc). For my day to day budget i use Excel since I graduated from University - 17 years ago. Thanks to it, I think I have a pretty good habbit on how to kepp my finances under control and achieve saving targets. I...

Imo the subscription model will be one of the next debt traps that people can fall into. I keep track of all subscriptions and also try to keep it at a minimal level (but when a pregnant wife wants BBC over WOWOW, you cant do much against it )

Videos like those are a significant part of the reason that I won't touch crypto. Michael Saylor is the CEO of MicroStrategy (MSTR), a billion dollar company with its entire balance sheet in Bitcoin. Saylor (an MIT grad) wrote The Mobile Wave, in which he predicted the rise of the mobile / smart ph...

it will be processed within about 10 business days in case of the COE application From my own experience, this is only true for a COE application (meaning you are not in Japan yet - but with the covid restrictions right now that is something different anyway). If you are in Japan and switch from an...