Tokyo - Post Report Question and Answers

If you move here, you can leave behind your:

Impatience, cultural assumptions, belief that your way is always right. - Nov 2020


Car, dislike of seafood. - Mar 2018


BBQ! Smoker! US car. Expectations of a close-knit embassy community. - Mar 2017


Car -- if you like. Many people make do without a car (although to be fair, I have a car here). - Feb 2014


Beliefs that Tokyoites speak English. Very few do. - Apr 2013


ugly shoes - Jan 2011


Fear of new culinary experiences (the Japanese eat things that I had only encountered in my high school biology textbook). - Oct 2008


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