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America has Warren Buffett, but Japan's most famous investor is 71-year-old Kiritani, who has a portfolio of over 500 stocks totaling over 400 million yen. He does not own a car and rides around everywhere in his bicycle. He's also known for his love of shareholder perks. /1

Boomer Father in law always votes for the left leaning CDP. Kind of a random choice for an old Showa dude but just goes to show that the youth in Japan vote conservative and the boomers pretty much all vote LDP or CDP

Realizing the Fed hasn’t even cut rates yet

Buy shitcos Collect dividends It’s that easy

Komeito has traditionally had a big base of support in Osaka (many middle and lower middle and working class Soka Gakkai members in Osaka) but they’ve seemingly lost ground there in the most recent elections. Membership base starting to age out it appears

Everything up today but nice movement from home builders and autos

I know foreigners who haven’t paid their nenkin. The logic I hear from them is that it’s not “required” or that if they don’t plan to collect it, they don’t need to pay it. Laughable to think they could dodge paying without any penalties given Japan’s huge population of seniors

Checking my brokerage account this morning

A Sherpa taking a cigarette break at 8,000 meters in the “death zone”, where oxygen is critically scarce

Nikkei up this morning. Divided government isn’t so bad for markets

NEED. WANT. INCREDIBLE.

The Japan Communist Party is an embarrassment and it’s hilarious people still think they have any relevance for anyone under 60 years old

京都の鴨川にて。 暑すぎてこれになりたい。

One of the principles of the Italian Mafia is that you should never betray your wife, because if you are able to betray who trusts to close your eyes and sleep beside you, you are not worthy of anyone's trust.

Osaka Expo is great and deserves way more recognition and praise