Does your number need to go up?
Do you even have a number? The future is both under and out of your control. Financial planning is just trying to surf on a wave of possibilities. There is no guarantee of success, but not trying means almost certain failure. I really enjoyed Martin’s latest blog post, Number go up. In it, he explored […]
The Monday Read: Health as Number One Priority
I’ve decided my main priority at the moment is health. Not work, not family, not hobbies, not friends, not (gasp!) money, but health. After all, a healthy man wants many things, but a sick man only one. I’m still aiming to lose another 9 kg or so, to reach 77 kg (and stay there!) by […]
Reader Profile: Dave and Amy
The English School Owners I’m really happy to be able to bring you another Reader Profile today. Dave and Amy run a number of English-teaching related businesses and are active in the teaching community. I finally met Amy last year at the Tokyo RetireJapan seminar and she’s been an enthusiastic member of our gang ever […]
The Monday Read: This changes everything
What if you didn’t have to do it, but rather got to do it I have it pretty easy in life. I got a good start, have been more than averagely lucky, and have made a few good moves. I wake up when I want, pretty much do what I want, and have very little […]
Guest Post: Getting solar panels in Japan in 2024
Might be worth looking into This is not quite a full guest post, but rather is adapted from a post in the RetireJapan Forum. The author kindly agreed to let me run it on the blog as I found it very useful. For those of us in Tokyo there are still huge government subsidies for […]
The Monday Read: From the R to the J to the G
Do we need to sit down and talk about a midlife crisis which is starting? I’ve been playing with AI a bit recently (Google’s Gemini, ChatGPT 3.5) and even though the hype seems to be dying down in the media, these things are getting better and better. I watched Daniel Priestley talk about it in […]
Making a Will in Japan
The notary public option A few months ago, I made a shocking discovery: there was a good chance that when I died, all my assets would go to the Japanese government and my family would get nothing. (don’t panic, this is extremely unlikely to apply to you) The reason for this is my very particular […]
The Monday Read: Finding Treasure
Welcome to The Monday Read, RetireJapan’s weekly collection of content, musings, and links related to personal finance and life in Japan. That dragonfly was just sitting on the fence when I got to work. I guess it was too hot for dragonflies as well as humans that day. Recently I find myself stopping to take […]
The Monday Read: Sakura
The cherry blossoms hit Sendai a few weeks early this year, but they are looking great. Had some wonderful weather this weekend although I only managed to grab a few minutes to enjoy them. It’s been BUSY, so much so that I missed both my goals this week and paid the penalty (see below). Will […]
2022 Roundup
All in one place Once again there will only be one roundup post this year. Here is the 2021 post if you want to see what that year looked like. 2022 was… really quite different It was a year of massive change, much of it positive. On a personal level: my university job contract finished, […]