05 Jan 2026
| #japan
| #money
| #insurance
I wrote about life insurance a while back and getting ready to purchase one. When I asked about it at r/JapanFinance, multiple people recommended also getting disability insurance so I started a new thread about that, took a look into it in detail, and will be sharing what I found here.
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28 Dec 2025
| #housing
| #japan
| #tech
We just finished building our house in Tokyo with Ichijo and had the handover at the end of October. One thing we had to get from a different company were the curtains.
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27 Dec 2025
| #car
| #japan
We bought a second-hand minivan earlier this year and recently finished building our house in Tokyo with Ichijo. So when we moved in, we had to update the address of the car.
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23 Dec 2025
| #housing
| #japan
| #tech
We just finished building our house in Tokyo with Ichijo and had the handover at the end of October. After moving in we found a problem: the view of one of the security camera was partially blocked by a spotlight installed right under it.
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22 Nov 2025
| #tech
We just built our house in Tokyo and in a recent post I wrote about how I set up our home network using Ubiquiti gear. The central piece is a Dream Router 7, which comes with two WAN ports: WAN1 (2.5 GbE RJ45) and WAN2 (10G SPF+). Our internet is connected to WAN2, and wanted to use WAN1 as a LAN port. This post is about how to configure this.
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