2025 Planning
The Year of the Snake Happy New Year! Welcome to the snakepit. I’m in Cebu, The Philippines. We made it after our initial hiccup. Heading back to Japan on Sunday. This is our annual planning post. Follow along and comment with your goals or plans below if you want to join in. 2024 was okay […]
2024 Roundup
One post to rule them all… This is the RetireJapan roundup post for 2024. We’ll be going through some successes and failures, as well as my lists of favourite blog posts and videos. Here is the 2023 post if you want to see what that year looked like. 2024 was the year of reps I […]
The Future of RetireJapan
Where do we go next? I started RetireJapan in 2013. It’s been an amazing 10+ years. I have learned so much and gotten so much value from running the blog, then the focum, the social media accounts, and now the YouTube channel. Hopefully I have helped some other people along the way too. The last […]
2024 Planning
Happy New Year! I hope the year of the dragon treats you well. I also hope our readers in Hokuriku are safe and doing okay and can get back to normal as quickly as possible. I know from personal experience how draining recovering from an earthquake can be. Take the time you need to adjust […]
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 […]
2023 Planning
Goals for this year Every year we start things off here on the blog with a look ahead, both for the site and me personally. Here is last year’s post for comparison. 2022 was a year of changes. In 2023 I am going to build on those changes and try to have more by doing […]
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, […]
Dude, where is The Monday Read?
The international date line got me Like Willy Fog (I loved watching this when I was a kid in Spain) I completely forgot about the international date line, but instead of saving me it means I missed posting The Monday Read and the weekly newsletter. Eeek. I thought I had a few more hours, but […]
800th RetireJapan Post
Damn, when did that happen Actually, it happened on May 5th (it was a Monday Read). This is actually post number 808. I had meant to do a special post for the 800th post, but I kind of forgot and missed it. Oooops. I guess we’ll have to try to do something special for the […]
New content from RetireJapan
Three channels now Just a quick post to let everyone know that we have been producing some new content, but not all of it is on the site/blog. RetireJapan’s mission is to help as many people as possible, so we are trying to get a bit smarter about how we can reach new readers. Right […]