No, Japanese can invest in other markets using international brokers. I don't know details on the fees and currency conversions. Investing in a foreign exchange is always at a slight disadvantage because of currency conversions and fees.
US stocks are traded on foreign exchanges. Even if you insist on buying on a US exchange, the currency conversion is not very expensive. If you're a buy and hold investor, it won't matter at all.
If you invested only in the Nikkei on the way up and on the way down, you still came out fine. The only person who didn’t is the person who put all of their savings in at the very top and never bought again.
Yea so buy land if you’re so paranoid about becoming Japan. It’s an island nation with a very unique history. Not a great counterpoint to current US and global economics.
The UK is at more or less the same price as it was in 2000. France same as 2008. Meanwhile SPY is up 2.75x in that period. The US seems to be the anomaly. Value doesn’t always go higher. Maybe the USA is special, maybe not.
The UK FTSE all share total return index, which accounts for reinvested dividends, is at 8430 today and was at 2870 in May 2000. That's an annualized return of exactly 5%/year
SPY is differently weighted than for example FTSE. Most indexes do not factor in dividends, if you look at the total return data where dividends are reinvested you will see there are gains in Europe, but less than the US.
Argentina's economy is a series of endless crises from the government choosing the worst possible ways to intervene in it at every opportunity. Like a reverse South Korea.
Buying land in Japan isn't a great idea (except to live on it). You have to pay a hefty annual tax on it. Land even with property on it is so often abandoned they have a word for it and many marketplaces where you can buy abandoned land from the tax office.
