RetireJapan

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... to-poverty

Japanese women face growing poverty.

I just added this to the Monday Read thread, but the Tokyo Llama youtube channel essentially went through that process in 2019.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwRjO3kHxU4

He goes into some of the costs in the video.

Not sure how to recommend a YouTube channel, but Tokyo Llama channel started in 2019 and is about his process of buying an Akiya house. The whole video series is really engaging. Here is the main channel link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBQ3TEq5SrUuTJuMl1S_4ig This is the most interesting from...

https://www.nippon.com/en/in-depth/d004 ... ation.html

Water utilities future in Japan.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch ... h-the-risk

Japan and Nuclear power. But there is a linked article that is worth a good read too;

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/opin ... power.html

Has anyone, who is a homeowner in Japan, consider the following company:

https://trende-eng.com/en/hot-denki/

I will make a separate thread related to this, but I wanted to ask how the performance has been the last few months? I am quite interested in the economics for wintertime; specifically is it cheaper to run your AC/heat unit 24/7 vs turning it on and off as needed (or when you are present in the hous...

https://www.theatlantic.com/internation ... ty/603568/

Japanese identity

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50693777

Japanese children not going to school.

I thought this might be of some interest. https://global.rakuten.com/corp/rnn/category/business/1906_007/ Summary: Rakuten allows users (with a Securities account) to use their super points to purchase domestic (Japanese) stocks as of Oct 2019. Since 2017 it has been possible to convert super points...