By Dako The dual-base dream has a specific shape in our house: cherry blossoms and my parents’ kitchen for part of the year, our life in the US for the rest. Somewhere along the way of imagining it, the unromantic…
By Dako Nobody loses a brokerage account at the border. That’s the fear that brings people to this question, so let’s retire it in the first paragraph: moving to Japan does not freeze, confiscate, or erase your US accounts. What…
By Dako Our portfolio is boring on purpose. US-listed ETFs, a handful of individual US stocks, and almost nothing else. No NISA. No Japanese funds. That looks strange for a half-Japanese household, and the reason sounds paranoid until I walk…