Adventures After 60
Life Without
Borders
A couple in our sixties, splitting our year between Osaka, Japan
and West Midlands, UK — sharing our travels, health tips, and financial wisdom.
Adventures After 60
A couple in our sixties, splitting our year between Osaka, Japan
and West Midlands, UK — sharing our travels, health tips, and financial wisdom.
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About Us
We moved from Japan to the UK, and spent the next 30 years or so in a whirlwind of work and raising our children. Once the kids were grown and our careers had settled down, we relocated in 2016 to the West Midlands, drawn by its pleasant environment and lower cost of living.
Since 2025, we — a couple in our sixties — have been splitting our time between Japan, mainly Osaka, during the winter months, and the West Midlands in England the rest of the year. Now that we've stepped back from our working years and settled into pension life, we're finally free to enjoy the things we never had time for.
On this site, we share stories from our everyday life, our travels, our approach to staying healthy, and the financial wisdom we've gathered for a richer retirement.
Why do we keep writing? We record here the roles we hope this blog
will play — so that we can return to them whenever we waver.
We record the changes of ageing — physical decline, low spirits — not as statistics, but in our own words as people actually living through them. The kind of information found in no medical textbook.
Growing older has opened up ways of seeing life that were invisible to us when young. We share a view that hides none of the hardship, yet does not end there.
Living between two countries, applying Oriental medicine to our own bodies, growing vegetables, learning to invest. Records from those who have "actually tried" can spare others the mistakes.
As Japanese residents in the UK, we bring haiku and Japanese literature to English readers, and British life to Japanese readers.
Even as memory weakens, writing lets us keep editing our lives. We hope this stance itself encourages others of our generation.
Simply knowing that "someone else struggles with the same things" can be a comfort. We believe contribution needs no reply.
These six reasons are why we keep writing, doubts and all.
We'll keep sharing our life between Osaka and England — travel, health and money, told through our own experience. We hope our sixties offer a few small ideas for yours.