2019 Planning
Happy New Year! I don’t want to boar you, so let’s cut to the chase 😉 Every year we do a look ahead at the new year, for both the site and me personally. You can see last year’s post here. So what does 2019 hold for RetireJapan? In a nutshell, more of the same. […]
The Monday Read
Happy New Year! Well, that is the end of 2018. How was it for you? Personally it was a very mixed year (a ‘calamitous year‘ according to Japanese tradition) but not all bad. I’ll be doing my annual review today and thinking about the new year ahead tomorrow. Patrick Sherriff (Our Man in Abiko) is […]
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 […]
RetireJapan 2.0
Website is coming I love the new website. I hope you will too.​We are (finally) launching the new RetireJapan site tomorrow. We’re going to be moving to retirejapan.com and the site will look a lot prettier. I’m told it should be easier for people to find it by searching, and it will be https so […]
Retire Japan – Home
Life is better when you’re in control. ​I believe everyone should have control of their financial life. Money should support your lifestyle and goals. It should not be a source of worry and stress. Are you a resident of Japan? Are you thinking about saving and investing for retirement? Then this site is for you. It’s […]
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 […]
Reader Profile: Amon and Christina
Their Rich Journey I’m really pleased to have another Reader Profile for you today. I came across Amon and Christina a few weeks ago on the Rockstar Finance forum, and found their story so interesting that I immediately asked them to write a guest post for us. If you enjoy this post, their Youtube videos […]
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 […]
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 […]
Reader Profile: captainspoke
The retired cyclist I’m delighted to have another Reader Profile for you today, this time from a regular RetireJapan commenter and community member: captainspoke. He’s living the good life now after a lifetime of good decisions. We can all but hope to be in such a good position when we want to retire. Take it […]