RetireJapan

Hello lovely people.
Is there a way to set up an automated monthly contribution for NISA?!

Unless you open an account and start investing just reading theories and getting advice won’t be very helpful. I kept reading for years and it always seems impossible, always had the assumption that investing was for Wall Street brokers like in the movies and not common people. The system is build t...

Took 3 months to open and 3 months when I changed providers.

So since all iDeco providers are restricted to max 30 fund I believe SBI lost its current advantage it had over the other providers. I am really interested in only one fund . All world/developed countries index. Currently I have been buying SBI DC Nissay 0.3% trust fee would in make sense paying the...

Seems to be mainly a way of 'topping up' an account with the unused allowance -ie you are not allowed to front-load it by paying everything in January (the only slightly interesting option, in my opinion) but instead can overpay any unused allowance (so pay nothing Jan-May, for example, then pay 6 ...

After months of going back and forth for the same reasons everyone has been talking about , I finally got the iDeco approved and ready to go. During the initial applications I couldn’t choose a one time payment but the SBI agent on the other side of the line told me it’s something easily done once t...

Yes it’s possible.

Just bought a house last month. Been living and working in Japan for 3 years. Steady job but no PR. Got 110% with no issues at all. All the procedures from the moment we decided to buy the house till the old got approved and we got the keys took 3-4 weeks.

Wish you best of luck.

Oh man, where do I begin. :/ Decided to embrace minimalism a few month ago. So every day, week, month has been a challenge of declutering and letting go of all things unnecessary . Trying to refrain from impulse buying and spending on things that we don’t need or add real value to our lives. Have 2 ...

I really am not qualified to answer the question but here is a bit of my experience, hope it helps: We have rented a 3LDK 100m2 Duplex the past 3 years. ¥75,000 a month rent , we don’t own a car so no parking space. ¥7,000 extra a month if we had made the contract with parking included on day one, ¥...

Ditto, You might also want to check out this site. http://myindex.jp/user/myaa.php I've also found robo-advisor sites, such as Rakuwrap and Theo, to be a good resource for ideas. Thank you for the link, will give it a try asap. I was looking at WealthNavi the other day but isn't the 1% fee pretty s...