The Monday Read
Technical Problems Edition Apologies to anyone who has tried to use the forum over the last few days. We seem to be having technical problems (forum software is out of date and I am too stupid to update it myself -currently looking for someone to help me with it). Hope to have it back to […]
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When you assume… I think about money and investing a lot. Maybe too much. I’ve written about our pension projections in the past, and thought I had a good idea of what we needed and where we were heading financially. It seems I was wrong. I had been working off a range of 200,000-400,000 a […]
The Monday Read
Summer in the air It’s getting warm (and humid!) up here in Sendai. Get the feeling this is going to be a long, hot summer. Might be a good time to review our top ten tips to cope with summer heat here in Japan 🙂 Here are this week’s links If we’re going to subsidise […]
The Monday Read
Golden Week Edition! I presume no-one will read this, as you’re all on holiday and not wasting time at work 😉 I am planning to have an excellent Golden Week. I am going to stay home, sleep a lot, go to jiu-jitsu every day, take naps, play with the grandkids, and maybe write some stuff […]
The Monday Read
Pre-GW edition It’s been a good month for RetireJapan. We wrote a guest article for the AllAboutJapan site (a quick guide to investing in Japan) and hopefully we’ll have another cool announcement next week 🙂 Here are this week’s links: Don’t know if ‘opt’ is the correct word here: Retiring late: More Japanese opt to […]
The Monday Read
New Era starts tomorrow Ooof, can’t believe it is April already. Wonder what the new Era will be called? Guess we will find out very soon 🙂 Here are this week’s links: Not often: How Often Is It a Stock-Picker’s Market? Online application? Great. Can only be done through an agent or company? Not great. […]
The Monday Read
18 degrees in Tokyo today? This has been an extremely busy week, as you can clearly see in the paucity of links and books below. Quality not quantity though, eh? 😉 I’ve had a few emails recently with questions that are great content for blog posts. If you have a question and can’t find the […]
RetireJapan Progress 2018
Pretty good year Every year since 2013 I have done a personal annual review. I really recommend it. I basically just sit down for a couple of hours and list up what I accomplished this year. What went well? What didn’t go so well? Then in January sit down and set out some goals and […]
Other Progress 2018
Bit of a mixed year This is the last progress report, and contains everything else. In a way NISA and iDeCo are easy, because they are a bit of a no-brainer and can be set up and basically ignored after that. Figuring out what else to do is more challenging. This year I did mainly […]
NISA Progress 2018
The slow steady grind A NISA account is a way to invest without paying capital gains tax or taxes on dividends. Pretty much anyone who lives in Japan can open one. For more information, check out our Beginner’s Guide to NISA Accounts in Japan. Every year I write a progress report so you can follow […]