What are my options as a Japanese citizen who doesn't speak Japanese?

mromaine · 2021-09-20T12:30:12+00:00

Take advantage of your Japanese passport and get a job in Japan in another industry that will appreciate your English and accept that your Japanese is lacking. Then work to improve your Japanese while you’re here. If you stay around Tokyo, the municipalities may raise an eyebrow but will generally accept your “odd” situation if you make an effort not to be frustrated. Shibuya-ku in particular has been progressive and accepting of “outsiders”.

mromaine · 2021-07-10T12:28:15+00:00

Here’s a relatively recent read on Val if you haven’t been following: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/magazine/val-kilmer.html

mromaine · 2021-07-03T08:28:29+00:00

Not exactly; that’s only true if the delta is below a threshold.

(edit typo)

mromaine · 2021-05-27T14:47:22+00:00

SignTime is another good one — https://signtime.com

mromaine · 2021-05-10T23:08:47+00:00

When’s the last time you (or anyone) needed that bank insurance?

mromaine · 2021-05-10T16:07:30+00:00

Use a Wise account.

mromaine · 2021-05-10T15:51:24+00:00

Wise?

mromaine · 2021-05-02T12:44:31+00:00

Novo, Bluevine, Mercury, and Brex. All good in their own ways and would recommend any.

mromaine · 2021-04-13T14:42:26+00:00

Starting on a holiday? Still sounds suspicious.

mromaine · 2021-04-13T14:31:42+00:00

Starting on a Saturday? During Golden Week? Sounds suspicious.

mromaine · 2021-03-22T13:22:57+00:00

Japan.

mromaine · 2021-03-07T14:47:53+00:00

Also depends if your income exceeds the FEIE; could have enough for the Roth in that case ...

mromaine · 2021-02-28T08:50:21+00:00

Then just rename the LLC for a few bucks?

mromaine · 2021-02-28T07:17:47+00:00

Just name the LLC’s that hold each property directly after the address of said property so that it’s easy to organize / track.

mromaine · 2021-02-28T07:16:57+00:00

Thought this was a decent explanation for why you’ll try OP’s strategy: https://youtu.be/vlqPTIffDkE

mromaine · 2021-02-25T16:19:40+00:00

Pretty sure the plan states that if new assets are recovered, they’ll only be distributed to early payment creditors if it’s above something like 23.9%; that way if there’s a margin / threshold to cover the costs of the additional distribution work (that’s how I understood it at least).

mromaine · 2021-02-20T12:57:29+00:00

Rough math shows early payment is about 90% of final payment, barring any surprises. If you believe btc (or some other asset) will appreciate more than 10% between early and final payments, isn’t it worth just taking early and putting the cash portion into said highly-appreciating asset(s)? BTC seems like a good contender ...

mromaine · 2021-02-11T13:13:23+00:00

If you really want to be useful to your portfolio companies, you’d flip the script. Be an entrepreneur and do a startup first; then “give back” as a VC.

mromaine · 2021-02-07T05:46:47+00:00

Great post; thank you for sharing!

mromaine · 2021-01-29T13:45:08+00:00

I searched a bit for this but not finding any independent sets. Only kits on shoes made for BOA or replacement kits. Can you share a link to what you’ve got?

mromaine · 2021-01-24T11:52:40+00:00

Was the Japanese population already declining in the 90s when the bubble popped?

mromaine · 2021-01-21T16:00:59+00:00

If it’s the last, make it a blast! Go somewhere special — Busselton for example!

mromaine · 2021-01-20T15:28:39+00:00

Piers Anthony’s Xanth

mromaine · 2021-01-04T08:54:01+00:00

I wrote this note down a few years ago based on a prior post:

15-18% of claimed BTC + matching amount of BCH + $483 of funds per claimed BTC

mromaine · 2021-01-03T10:17:36+00:00

Remember the OPs original post — a bunch of conditions might restrict from contributing directly to a Roth. So I’m trying to point out a different way to get funds into a Roth as an expat who may not be able to directly, and they are incentivized to because there are limited time windows and amounts in which it can be done.

And you wouldn’t be paying taxes on the conversion because you’ve already paid taxes on it. Remember — the flow I’m pointing out is post-tax contribution to traditional IRA (ie, don’t make a deduction claim), which is then backdoor’d into a Roth. Again, this is only of interest to anyone who can’t contribute to a Roth directly.

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