Holidays in Japan

I have several other blogs that deal with my holiday escapades, and I intend for this blog to focus on my personal insights about Japan and its people. So for holiday tips please refer to my blogroll or refer to www.sheldonthinks.com.
After marriage I had a business trip to Japan, and it was not for several years that I would return. Travelling around Japan on business I had however decided that I wanted to live in Japan. On reflection it was not the best commercial decision I would make. There were several bad points:
1. I lost a regular income stream which meant that I have no basis for buying a property and thus benefiting from the property (asset) price boom
2. I lost a constant flow of information on listed Australian mining companies. Working as an analyst I got to review really good stocks first hand. Didnt have to go looking for them
3. I undermined my career credibility by going overseas. Perhaps it looked a little self-indulgent, but then I was not getting exposed to any quality Australian management either.

On reflection my personal life hads no doubt contamninated my working relationships. I was being misunderstood alot. Those experiences were cause for anxiety that tended to push me offshore. You can rest assured that by going overseas, you will not have a problem being misunderstood, as they expect foreigners to be at least slightly 'foreign'. Unfortunately there is really no market for mining analysts in Japan, and less so one that does not speak Japanese, and I did not have the head for that.
So having made good profits on mining stocks I headed off to Japan to teach English. Having divorced, being sponsored to teach English in Japan was one of the best experiences of my life. It helped at the time that I made a 3200% profit on Aquarius Platinum options.