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I agree that a lot of people like to keep work as work and pleasure as pleasure. I am like that, too.

I made friends in Japan by hanging out at a local shot bar. It was a place where only neighborhood people came for a drink or a bite after work. It was small enough private conversations were almost impossible, so everyone there pretty much knew everyone else. I still always visit when I go back to Japan (over 10 years after moving back to the US) and many of my same friends are still hanging out there.