RetireJapan

What kind of bonds or bond funds do you think of adding to your portfolio and from what geography? There are many ways to diversify your portfolio without investing in bonds or bond funds. Why are those your first choice?

How about Tsumitate NISA? Cumulative Investment NISA? Or just Accumulation NISA?

The difference between investing twelve million yen and eight million yen is four million yen. I guess it depends on how likely your investment is to compound a larger amount of interest than that difference? Tsumitate NISA is set for a fixed term. Another option instead of extending the period of t...

The readers of this forum have probably heard about the new tax-free investment programme that will be launched in Japan in January next year, called Tsumitate NISA. It will give individual investors aged 20 years and older tax exemption on dividends and capital gains derived from fund investments o...

There's an ad in the Tokyo subway about DMM Hikari, advertising it from 3,220 yen a month. Seems like that must be a competitive price?

Interesting. I'm using SoftBank WiFi. The speed is fine. It costs about 5,000 yen a month but I believe the cost could go up to 6,000 to 7,000 yen if you pay separately for renting their hardware. There must be more providers on the market than these two although I wouldn't know if they offer better...

Those who are able to read Japanese might be interested in reading a book called Hisan Unyo written by Takunori Hashimoto. It gives a decent overview of the state of investing in Japan. In Japanese: 捨てられる銀行2 非産運用 by 橋本卓典.