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…
If you hold a green card and think you might leave the US someday, there’s a phrase you need to meet long before any moving trucks show up: covered expatriate. The covered expatriate rules decide whether giving up a green…
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…