RetireJapan

... From what I have experienced, the crematoriums are using some insane heat to burn the body. It's like jet engine level heat. ... I have a cobalt-chromium artificial hip, and that stuff is also used in jet engines. A few bits of titanium, too, with an even higher melting point. I've wondered how...

Thanks for checking, and for the follow-up. (about what I would have expected, but still...)

... I guess for public it very much depends on the location of the school and who enters the same year my daughter would enter. I think that would be true of any school, public or private. Also I heard from a friend who works at a public school that if there is an episode of bullying in the public ...

Maybe another reason not to have all of the eggs in the same basket: https://www.reddit.com/r/japanlife/comments/1bxw8zw/wife_victim_of_employment_詐欺_need_help/ It wouldn't have been everything, but early last fall I was nearly scammed by an apparent AirBnB email. Somehow they knew about a reservati...

If it's a modestly larger company, wouldn't severance be on a chart in the company rulebook? Altho it may be unusual, my smallish uni did have such a chart--years of service in successive rows down the left, then maybe 4-5 columns, the heading of each for a different type of separation. One column f...

There was just a discussion about this over on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/japanlife/comments/1bveook/opinion_about_the_education_system/ Not necessarily that thread, but the consensus in my reading on this (and my opinion) seems to be that elementary (primary) here is pretty good, if not excel...

From NYT: 4 Mistakes Couples Make When Discussing Money Therapists share the secrets to a drama-free money chat. April 5, 2024, 5:04 a.m. ET I like talking to my husband about a lot of things, but money isn’t one of them. Most of our conversations about spending go something like this: We lament our...

I can invest the DC element in any approved fund, and the choices are fine - low cost equity trackers, job done. But only the first 25,200 yen a month... the rest is "cash balance" and kept in cash. Really weird. I work for a large global bank, so it isn't like they are not financially li...

I grab an old envelope or napkin, and do my numbers there.

I browsed across this article this morning, and thought of this thread. In the answer, the expression "financial infidelity" is used, which I think relates to the discussion above--does a secret stash represent that or not. https://slate.com/business/2024/04/girlfriend-tax-return-salary-ra...