Hi,
I'm a graduate student who's been in Japan for 2 years now. I live in a very remote prefecture attending a national university right now, but in a few months I will mostly relocate to Tokyo for my PhD. I realised that I don't know much about how to save and invest a part of the money I'm getting through my TA, RA and part time jobs. I know it might sound silly since the money isn't a huge amount, but in my home country I used to keep my money in a fixed deposit and recieved interest on it. I've heard that buying gold is a good way to invest, but I don't know how far those methods will take me in Japan. I'd be really happy to recieve advise on what ways of safe investing I could do while living on a student's salary, in Japan. Please don't advise me to send money to my home country and to invest there, it's quite difficult for me to do so. I don't know much about investing in the first place, so please feel free to provide any resources etc that I can use to learn about it, as well as implement it.
Thank you very much!!
by Historical_Top_947