Goodbye Japan.
Hello from Japan, where I've just celebrated my first winter Christmas, and it was...underwhelming to be perfectly honest with you. Christmas Day is not a holiday here, so it was very strange to see shops open as normal, and people heading to work in suits and carrying briefcases. It didn't feel like Christmas, and not just because the seasons were opposite to what I'm used to. New Year is a far more traditional and important day here, so I'm quite looking forward to experiencing that. As you may have guessed from the title of this blog, I'm leaving Japan after 2 years living and working in this wonderful and beautiful, but also at times incredibly isolating and confusing place. For some people reading, this may come as a bit of a shock, but it's something I've considered for a while, and there were a few more pros to leaving than cons. Today's post is a bit of reflection on my time here and what the future might hold. I've dealt with problems that...