[GoNative]

The one thing I know after being here for the last 5 years is that Japan is rarely what you expect it to be. I know most of my views of Japan before living here were totally naive and plain wrong (and some probably still are). It is a completely different culture to that of the West and has plenty of good and plenty of bad things about it. Japan is anything but perfect but the differences in the culture make it new and exciting and a lot of fun, at least at first. As a foreigner living here it certainly has it's challenges but so does living anywhere. For me the good far outweighs the not so good stuff and I love it.