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Originally Posted by RickOShay
... I think you should come here with the plan of "temporary visitor", if you can manage to get here, and then decide if this is how you want to live the rest of your life.
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I strongly second this comment.
I think most of us will agree that the first year and even the second year in Japan just blows your mind and you feel like you want to live there forever. But once most of the novelty wears off it starts to grind a bit on your soul. A large part of this is because doing normal everyday things such as applying for a bank account, shopping for specific ingredients at a supermarket, sorting out insurance policies, superannuation, etc takes much more effort especially if you don't have a native speaker to assist you.