RetireJapan

Rakuten ... always have their dumb restrictions (like no Paypay back when you could add credit cards to Paypay) I have my rakuten card linked to Paypay ... adamu: Yeah, not sure why it wouldn't work, especially if it works for the card itself. My rakuten visa doesn't even have paywave, but work fin...

Should work fine. I used my rakuten Mastercard, and rakuten visa while in Australia exclusively with Apple Pay ... and it was glorious. No stupid scanning of QR codes, or taking time to ask what kind of payment method. The default is contactless, so everything is super quick.

I think anyone with internet access knows to keep emergency funds of a few million yen just in case. But I haven't seen any conversation about what to do after you use it. If you saved the emergency fund before you started investing, how do you top it up after you use it? The only way seems to be t...

We dipped into out emergency fund when building our house when unforeseen expenses popped up. But otherwise it is for if I lose my job somehow and am without work for a little while. For other things like household maintenance and such I have a separate savings.

When I registered with Monex they told me they couldn't put spaces between my first and middle name, so I had to change my Shinsei katakana to have no space between my first and middle name ... which then created a problem with my work's payroll for some reason, and they weren't happy and asked why ...

Has Moneyforward fixed it's UI at all in recent years? When I last tried using it, it was another shining gem in Japan's hostile UIX crown.

zeroshiki wrote: ↑Wed Dec 28, 2022 6:05 am They also call term-life colloquially as 掛け捨て (throwaway)

In an effort to scare more people into buying whole life insurance.

What is acceptable on a registered hanko is not standard across Japan, so it'd be best to check with your city hall/ward office before making the actual stamp.

My mortgage will go into my 70's, but as long as I keep investing how I am, and interest rates stay the same, I have no desire to pay off my mortgage early (even though this is an option).

Windows defender and being judicious about what you click on.