28 Jan 2024
| #money
| #japan
Japan has a system that provides income tax deduction for people with a home mortgage in the first years of the mortgage (住宅ローン減税).
The rules have changed in the past, and which rules apply depends on when one bought/built their home.
In this post I’ll attempt to summarize the rules applicable to a home acquired in 2024.
As with all my posts, this is not tax advice and do your own research before making any decision.
Also if you find any inaccuracy or mistake, please leave a comment at the end, so that I can correct it.
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04 Jan 2024
| #parenting
| #japan
We are expecting our first child very soon, so we have been thinking and discussing which language we want to speak to them.
In this post I’ll go through some of the things we considered and how we arrived to a conclusion.
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26 Dec 2023
| #money
| #japan
One of the common causes of divorce is money problems, so it’s important to be mindful about it.
Here are my thoughts on one possible way of doing it.
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26 Nov 2023
| #tech
I was setting up an app on a kubernetes cluster that had istio configured as a service mesh, and I run into an issue: as the application starts, it attempts to communicate to another service over the network (doesn’t matter if it’s an external service or something running on the same cluster), and it fails.
However when I kubectl exec into the container, I can successfully reach the same service.
What’s going on and how to solve it?
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23 Nov 2023
| #japan
| #money
I’m starting a family, so I’ve been recently thinking about life insurance to ensure they won’t have financial hardship if I pass early.
In this article I’ll review what I found.
Please remember that I’m not a professional, and none of this is financial or tax advice.
As always, do your own research.
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