About a year ago we bought a plot of land in western Tokyo in Musashino city (see this post about why we chose this place). In this post I’ll share the process of finding and buying the land, and the associated costs.
Read moreWe are building a house in Tokyo with Ichijo 一条工務店. They are known to provide outstanding cost-performance (especially in insulation), but a lack of customization options. One place where this caused us extra work was the kitchen, and I’ll share our journey in this post.
Read moreI’m still pretty far from retirement, but recently I’ve been looking into how the pension works in Japan, so I’ll share my learnings in this post.
Read morePeople with (good) financial advisors often have family meetings, where they discuss financial matters (income, spending, investments) with their immediate family (spouse, kids). This can be useful for people without financial advisors too, so we decided to start doing it. In this post I’ll describe why and how we are going about it.
Read moreJapan’s online tax filing system, e-Tax, only supports a handful of operating systems and browsers:
(Moreover officially the operating system has to be set to Japanese, though I don’t think they check this one.)
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