Guest Post: northSaver’s Story part 2
This is a guest post (2 of 5) from a member of the retirejapan community. You can find northSaver on the forum. Part 1: What is Early Retirement? is here. Laying the Foundation In the first article I defined what early retirement means to me, which turns out to be early semi-retirement. In this article […]
Guest Post: northSaver’s Story part 1
This is a guest post (1 of 5) from a member of the retirejapan community. You can find northSaver on the forum. What is Early Retirement? Imagine you were in your 30s or 40s and were given two choices. You could either work hard for the next 12 years and then never have to work […]
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 […]
302nd Post
Not the milestone I was looking for This is the 302nd post on this blog. Of course, I meant to write this last Friday, which was the 300th post, but I forgot (I’m on the road at the moment, which makes writing the blog more challenging than usual). ​RetireJapan started in 2013. Since then we’ve […]
2023 Roundup
All in one place This is the RetireJapan roundup post for 2023. We’ll be going through some successes and failures, as well as my lists of favourite blog posts and videos. Here is the 2022 post if you want to see what that year looked like. 2023 was the year of rapid evolution I finally […]
Master Plan Part Trois
RetireJapan Remastered A few years ago I published a master plan for RetireJapan. Then in 2021 I published Part Deux. After all the crazy developments in the last couple of years, I think it’s time for another update 🙂 The original plan was as follows: Step 1: share information on the site/blogStep 2: run a forum so people can […]
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, […]
The Monday Read: Xmas 2022
Honestly cannot believe we are less than a week from Christmas. Like, where did the last (three) year(s) go? Fortunately we agreed not to do presents for the adults this year, which takes an enormous amount of pressure off. I’ll be doing my Xmas shopping tomorrow for the grandkids. My turkey is due to arrive […]
Energy, Climate change, and long-term investing
A really thought-provoking guest post Today’s guest post is by a reader who got in touch and offered to explain a few things about the implications of climate change. I found the conversation so interesting that I asked him to write about it for the blog, and he came through in spades. Take it away, […]
2021 Roundup
All in one place Once again there will only be one roundup post this year. Here is the 2020 post if you want to see what that year looked like. 2021 was… kind of like 2020 This year was also stressful, but in a different way from last year. More low-key, less uncertainty. More like […]