Chose

My car insurance in Japan in my 60s: 2,120 yen a month with JA Kyosai. What is in it, why I dropped collision cover, and why I stay for 2,040 yen more a year.

A former boss offered me night shifts through the Silver Jinzai Center. Evening to morning, about 10,000 yen a day. I went to the session, then said no.

I believed people living on a pension in Japan did not need to file a final tax return. I filed anyway, and every year 10,000 to 30,000 yen came back.

Someone in my chonaikai told me to cut the guardrail on the bridge because it was too long. I got angry. Then I decided to learn from their bad example.

I am in my 60s, and I asked myself whether I still need a suit. The chances to wear one are nearly gone, yet owning none felt wrong. This is where I landed.

In my 60s I paid about 600,000 yen of back pension, kokumin nenkin tsuinou, for my child in Japan. What it cost, what the tax deduction gave back, and why.

I am in my 60s. I asked myself what happens to my email, bank accounts and blogs when I die. Here is what I sorted out, and the one notebook I made.

How do you become a danka of a Japanese temple, and what does it cost? Before my parent died, I compared three temples. The money worked differently at each.

One back tooth implant in Japan cost me 449,490 yen in my 60s. My record of nearly two years: deep bite, root canal, surgery, and the new tooth.

I paid all 1.3 million yen for the grave of my parent in Japan. 300,000 yen for land, 1 million yen for stone. Who pays, other choices, and why I regret it now.