Reader Case Study: Kosei Nenkin

A brief overview and some advice A reader got in touch with me in March (!) and kindly offered to let me use their pension statement for a blog post. They also sent me some background information about themselves. So this will be a new kind of post on RetireJapan: share your situation and get […]

Nenkin Case Study

Passbooks for the Japan kokumin nenkin pension.

Getting close to retirement A short, practical post for you today. A reader has kindly shared their nenkin statement with me and given me permission to put it on the blog. This person is closer to retirement than I am, so this gives us a more developed snapshot than my annual pension updates. In section […]