The term "Semi-retired" means the state that you do not have to work for full time for your living, but at the same time you still need to earn some money to survive. I can say it is "almost-financial independence". With help of earning some money you can escape from full time hard job much earlier than the time, when you are able to archive your perfect FI and to jump to full-fledged retirement.
I'm going to write about my path to "almost FI" state (unfortunately I have not quited my full time job!) and the life after that, as well as about the issues relating to life, lifestyle, work, investment, tax and pension, etc, mainly ones of Japan.
The blog title as "SETSUYAKU Semi-Retired Life". "SETSUYAKU（節約)" means "economy" in Japanese. I have quite positive image of this word. Living almost 40 years, I realized I didn't need extravagant luxury and felt very much comfortable with a frugal style of living. If you live a frugal life, not sparing much money for extra luxuries, you can save much more money, which leads to early achivement of FI and retirement.
You may consider that Japan is a very expensive country to live. Yes, as far as you live a "normal" life, you must pay much more than the case you live in another country. But if you live in SETSUYAKU way, you can cut a lot of expenses for your life. I enjoy my SETSUYAKU Life and want to share my experience with you, too.
I hope it is going to be interesting for some of you.
*DISCLAIMER
As my English is not perfect, sometimes it may happen that you cannot understand what I want to mean. I would appreciate, if you made a comment on that to the article.
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