Reader Profile: DC Rise
Planting trees in Nagoya RetireJapan: I’m very happy to present a new reader profile today from DC Rise, an English teacher in Nagoya who attended one of the RetireJapan talks last year. We’ve been keeping in touch by email and he kindly wrote up his profile for the site. Tell us a little bit about […]
Reader Profile: Sean
The English School Owner A new reader profile for you. Like many of our readers, Sean owns an English school and is thinking about the future. He asked some questions over email and then very kindly agreed to write about his background. Tell us a little bit about yourself. Originally from the UK I’ve lived […]
Reader Profile: Stockbeard
Nearly Retired In our second reader profile, Stockbeard tells us about his personal finance journey. SB is one of our most prolific commenters, and also runs his own personal finance blog here. Tell us a little bit about yourself I’m a thirty-something French engineer. I lived for ten years in Tokyo and am currently in […]
Reader Profile: Desmond P.
The Young Tech Worker Today’s post is something special. One of the aims of this site is to encourage people to learn more about personal finance and investing so that they can take control of their money and future. I’ve been wanting to showcase readers for a while now, and finally found my first contributor. […]
The Monday Read
Not much to report this week. A few things on the horizon, but nothing I can announce just yet. We’re still looking for guest posts or reader profiles. If you would like to contribute either of these please get in touch! This week’s links I need to do more of this: When in doubt, try […]
The Monday Read
Guest posts and events (just to remind everyone: the Monday Read is written on Monday, and you can find it on the site and on Facebook then, but if you are reading this from the newsletter it’s a week behind. Shouldn’t make much difference to most of the content) Just got back from an exhausting […]
Coming Soon on RetireJapan
Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes A quick progress report and request for feedback today. It’s been a great year so far for RetireJapan. I’m still having a lot of fun (maybe the most important thing) and it seems we’re still managing to help people. We’re seeing a lot more users in the forum and receiving many more enquiries to […]
Your Local Bank
If you go down to the bank today, you’re sure of a big surprise… Today I am thrilled to interrupt our regular programming and bring you a guest post by Good and Bad Japan, one of my favourite writers about Japan (and I’m not just saying that because he is a member of the forum […]
400 Posts
Actually, Monday’s post was #400 I meant to write this on Monday, but instead had to call the market correction/crash 😉 As a quick follow-up to that post, I’ve read optimistic and pessimistic articles about the stock market. Bear in mind that no-one knows what is going to happen. If they did, they certainly wouldn’t be […]
2017 Roundup: September to December
But that was only last week… Last year we ran Roundup posts: for Jan-Apr 2016, May-Aug 2016, and Sep-Dec 2016. The idea is just to highlight the better or more perennial posts that new readers may have missed and old-timers may want to re-read. This month we ran the first Roundup post for 2017: January to April and the second one for 2017: […]