Category Our FIRE Journey

By Dako & Jay We have a FIRE number. It’s in dollars, because every account we own is in dollars. Two 401(k)s. A taxable brokerage of US-listed funds and US stocks, a traditional IRA, a Roth, an HSA, a high-yield…

We are a Japanese-American couple living between the US and Japan in the way a lot of cross-border families do: our bodies are in America, and a second life keeps running quietly in the background. One of us grew up…