1,464 days have passed since I moved back to Japan after living in Australia for 18 years. 🎉 Writing this Native Expat blog allows me to reflect on how I was a week, a month, 2 months, and 6 months since moving back to Japan. Here's my reflection on moving back to Japan. Where's home? … Continue reading Reflection of moving back to Japan | 4th year edition
New York Bar in Park Hyatt Tokyo was a perfect setting for one of the farewells with an expat friend whom I spent a lot of time over the year. The jazz bar located high up on 52nd floor is famous for being the one of the pivotal locations in the film, "Lost in Translation". … Continue reading Finding connection amongst the disconnects
At times, I feel like my brain is between a tightening clamp, my heart palpitates, and I force my face to configure to have as neutral facial expression as possible when I listen to some expats in Tokyo. The people I spend the most amount of time with in Tokyo are expats. To clarify, expats … Continue reading Reflection on Expats in Japan
Finally from October 11, the Japanese government will relax the rules by increasing the number of people who can enter Japan and opening up the international airports at every airport in Japan.
I have been away from Japan for nearly a month and a half since my husband I am on a family and friends reunion trip in Australia and New Zealand. This is the longest time I have been away from Japan since moving back in 2019.I have visited cities that I used to live in … Continue reading 4 things I miss about Japan
For the last 3 and a half years, my New Zealand husband have been living in Japan. Now that the borders have reopened, we have been visiting family and friends in Australia and now in New Zealand. As last Thursday was a public holiday in Japan called Mountain Day , we have been traveling in … Continue reading Expat goes native, Kiwi expat in Japan back in New Zealand
I continue to be in Australia where last week I spent time with my parents. After moving back to Japan in 2019, this was my first visit to the Gold Coast, Australia where I lived when my family moved to Australia in 2001. My parents continue to live on the Gold Coast and staying with … Continue reading Native Expat goes back home (to Australia) from home (in Japan) 2022 edition part 2
9 days that my sister visited us in Tokyo from Germany flashed by as though she was with us for mere 9 seconds. As mentioned in the last week's post, we haven't seen each other in 2 and a half years, my sister hasn't been back in Japan for 7 years and we haven't been … Continue reading Clash of the classic and the current: Tokyo
My sister has visited me in Tokyo from Germany for 9 days. Same as me, she was born in Tokyo to Japanese parents.She lived in Japan until the age of 14, moved to Australia and for the last 8 years she has been living in Europe. The last time she visited Japan was 7 years … Continue reading Native Expat interviews (temporary) Native Expat
I remember when I first looked for a job in Japan, I was confused with the acronym "SNS". There are many industry jargons out there so I was scratching my head to figure out what this new marketing jargon could be... it is Social Networking Sites. Social Media, in Australia (or I think the rest … Continue reading How the Japanese are social on social
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