"When I moved as a college student, I was going to college in Oregon, and they had a great sister school program with Tokyo International University. It was just a six-month exchange program, and then I went back to the US. After college, I did an MBA, and once I finished, I learned that there was a program for being a civil servant in Japan where you would facilitate exchange between your home country and Japan, work with nonprofits, and do translating."
"But when I arrived in 2011, I was placed in a very little town, and they were like, "Nonprofit government management? How about you just go teach English?" And that's what I did. I was in Japan the second time around for about eight years. I was teaching for two years, and then I met the love of my life - another foreigner, she's Russian - and she was on a similar kind of work exchange program."
A 39-year-old American moved to Japan in his 20s through short exchange programs and later a six-month college exchange in Tokyo. After completing an MBA, he joined a civil servant-style program intended to facilitate international exchanges, nonprofits, and translation. He was assigned to a small town and ended up teaching English for two years. He spent about eight years in Japan during that period, met a Russian partner on a similar exchange program, and faced challenges raising a child in Japan. He later started a company helping others relocate to Japan and returned on a highly skilled professional visa.
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