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In my case, I had that thought briefly, mainly because I lived there (Yokosuka boy here) when I was really young. And there are a lot of thing I missed. But there are also a lot of things that I didn't get to see when I was there: the life of a working adult.

Visiting as a tourist is very very diffent than starting life there, all this talk about "culture", most of the people don't even know why it's like to live there and build a life from scratch there.

I always had is idea of going back to work, I even had an interview with panasonic back in 2006, I didn't get short listed, but I kept trying until I visited my cousin. The poor guy got home one Friday morning at 2am, and he left work at 6 again, and he had to work again on Saturday and Sunday. Base on what he told me. This is the work "culture" for non teaching work if you want to blend in

That's just one example of how things differ, I just don't think most these kids are being realistic at all

Now my goal is no longer to live ther and work there, but to work hard to make enough so that I can visit every year