Sierra Mike
12-28-2002, 04:00 PM
A Western expat ruminates on Japan prior to his departure last March. Interesting insights.
An expatriate's relationship with the host country is a shifting one, and during my eight years in Western Japan, I have run the whole gamut: Greenhorn-in-Wonderland, hyper critic, "Excuse-me-but-you're-standing-in-my-Japan," culture-intoxicatee. I am returning to the U.K. at the end of March, but, paradoxically, my tie with Japan is due to grow much stronger in mid-May when my wife gives birth and I become the father of an infant Japanese-Briton. Read all about it at The Dream Drain (http://www.time.com/time/asia/news/magazine/0,9754,214148,00.html)
SM
An expatriate's relationship with the host country is a shifting one, and during my eight years in Western Japan, I have run the whole gamut: Greenhorn-in-Wonderland, hyper critic, "Excuse-me-but-you're-standing-in-my-Japan," culture-intoxicatee. I am returning to the U.K. at the end of March, but, paradoxically, my tie with Japan is due to grow much stronger in mid-May when my wife gives birth and I become the father of an infant Japanese-Briton. Read all about it at The Dream Drain (http://www.time.com/time/asia/news/magazine/0,9754,214148,00.html)
SM