What It's Really Like Living in Japan as a Foreigner
I moved to Japan in my twenties. That was over twenty years ago. In that time I’ve run a guesthouse, started a property business, built software, had kids, dealt with immigration bureaucracy more times than I can count, and had roughly ten thousand conversations with people who want to know what it’s really like to live here. This is my honest answer.
The short version: Japan is an extraordinary place to live, and also a deeply frustrating one. Both of those things are true at the same time, and neither cancels the other out.