To stay or not to stay- that's the question!

[vir-jin]

.... Today I could paint myself with lacquer and nothing would happen. :P

Now that's an art image that would promote your Japanese career.

I couldn't move when dryed. But I found a solution for your idea
http://www.kenjitoki.com/ongoing_UK.html

YES!
Carbon fiber-lacquer: That's just what I need to redo the interior of 1962 Cadillac Couple de VILE.
http://www.kenjitoki.com/carbontop.html
<--Carbon fiber-lacquer "spoon"
<--my Cadillac Couple de VILE.
<--a Japanese lacquer paint scheme

might work out, honey!

[vir-jin]

Mulboyne, Lurker, I have to think about your posts. Sounds all reasonable and logic with my own experiences here.
I have another question. I know, when you think you get insane you are not yet insane. But that happens to me sometimes. I just can't set the priorities right- therefore I adapt automatically to another person. Might be good and helpful potential at some time but the bad thing- I don't care whether it is Japanese style or European style or both...And if I come to think about it because something was misunderstood and I try to review everything step for step, both ways seem completely logical, and I end up thinking about how many ways there would have been to act in that moment. And which one would have been the best. That's what I call real FG shit. I run in a circle and think 'you are insane!'

[Taro Toporific]

... I run in a circle and think 'you are insane!'

Ok, here's the box score on 23 gaijin that have worked for me, with me, and preceded me for the 30 years my office has existed. You do your own odds.

Escaped in less than week 3
Escaped in less than 12 months: 7
Left under heavy medication in 5 years: 8
AIDS: 2
Suicide: 3
Retired: Me on the job right now.

I's say the odds favor "escape" for FGs.

[shounenka]

Interesting thread. Thought it would make for a decent first post from myself==

1) How long have you been here?

6 years consecutive and counting, but am as 'fucked' as they come 'cause I went ahead and got the JPN citizenship (former American). I'm like Debito without the family and the PMS.

2) What do you do?

I work in a Japanese publishing company that puts together manuscripts and contents for mostly entertainment-related companies -- anime/games/toys/movies etc. Write manuscripts and perform translation/editing.

3) What would you do back home?

Absolutely nothing comes to mind. That's a big reason why I decided to plant myself here.


Looking through this thread, I thought this is the best thing the OP can ask himself to help him answer his own question:

It really depends on what you want to do career wise. Can that be realized in Japan?

[vir-jin]

... I run in a circle and think 'you are insane!'

Escaped in less than week 3 too late
Escaped in less than 12 months: 7 too late

Left under heavy medication in 5 years: 8 a chance

AIDS: 2
Suicide: 3
Retired: Me on the job right now. how did you do it?

[joshuaism]

This is a fun topic. And something I've been thinking about myself.

1) How long have you been here?

I've been here for almost 3 years.


2) What do you do?

I'm in the military. United States Air Force.

3) What would you do back home?

The same thing, I guess. At least until my enlisment is up (2 years to go unless I decide to re-enlist).

So on to the big one...

To stay or not to stay- that's the question!

Considering I've got an assignment to go to San Antonio, Texas with orders to leave this month... I really don't have a choice, unless I wanna go AWOL. But when I came here I didn't have any personal responsibilities. Now I've picked up a wife and I've got an infant daughter to look after too. I'm a little worried about how my wife will be able to adapt to life in America and I'm trying to think of what will be the fastest and easiest path towards getting back to Japan. But maybe in two years the question will have changed. To stay or not to stay (in America) - that's the question!

[vir-jin]

2) By my own vague understanding of a vague term, I think it is better to be a "fucked gaijin" in Japan than a "gaijin". I'm happy to discuss this in a series of lectures at the Tokyo Metropolitan Goverment offices. Attendance free, bring your own bento.

Don't want to miss that! When's the next lecture?

[FG Lurker]

Mulboyne, Lurker, I have to think about your posts. Sounds all reasonable and logic with my own experiences here.
I have another question. I know, when you think you get insane you are not yet insane. But that happens to me sometimes. I just can't set the priorities right- therefore I adapt automatically to another person. Might be good and helpful potential at some time but the bad thing- I don't care whether it is Japanese style or European style or both...And if I come to think about it because something was misunderstood and I try to review everything step for step, both ways seem completely logical, and I end up thinking about how many ways there would have been to act in that moment. And which one would have been the best. That's what I call real FG shit. I run in a circle and think 'you are insane!'

I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around your post!

Overall I would say don't analyze things too much. What has happened already can't be changed so move forward and try to avoid doing the same thing again.

[Taro Toporific]

... I run in a circle and think 'you are insane!'

AIDS: 2
Suicide: 3
Retired: Me on the job right now. how did you do it?

how did you do it?

I'm chemically unbalanced, hee, hee.
Billions of folks' brains are pumping depression juices. Not me.
Prenatal -- I was calm and non-kicking.
As a baby, I was all smiles, gurgling and never cried.
Grade school-- I was a happy camper.
Teenage flew past me by without any angst and college was a breeze even when I was being arrested at protest marches.
Now, I live in a concrete slum with salary zombies and I'm smiling---- See. Unbalanced, hee, hee.

[mercutio]

... I run in a circle and think 'you are insane!'

AIDS: 2
Suicide: 3
Retired: Me on the job right now. how did you do it?

how did you do it?

I'm chemically unbalanced, hee, hee.
Billions of folks' brains are pumping depression juices. Not me.
Prenatal -- I was calm and non-kicking.
As a baby, I was all smiles, gurgling and never cried.
Grade school-- I was a happy camper.
Teenage flew past me by without any angst and college was a breeze even when I was being arrested at protest marches.
Now, I live in a concrete slum with salary zombies and I'm smiling---- See. Unbalanced, hee, hee.

yes but you have an understanding of the world around you that few could rival. I have taken several people on tours of the unnamed area of Shibuya that you showed me and the unnamed streets that you gave names to... (eg. the alley with blue tarp homes with TV antennas and running powerlines etc.)

[Mels]

This is a fun topic. And something I've been thinking about myself.

Considering I've got an assignment to go to San Antonio, Texas with orders to leave this month... I really don't have a choice, unless I wanna go AWOL. But when I came here I didn't have any personal responsibilities. Now I've picked up a wife and I've got an infant daughter to look after too. I'm a little worried about how my wife will be able to adapt to life in America and I'm trying to think of what will be the fastest and easiest path towards getting back to Japan. But maybe in two years the question will have changed. To stay or not to stay (in America) - that's the question!

My father was in the AF stationed at Yokota AB. I think your wife will be fine, even if I dont know her. I know my mom did well....although she had to adapt to the american culture. CONGRADULATION on your new family.
I know for my dad, he networked quite a bit, he got his tour at Yokota and I was able to stay in one school until I graduated.
Let us know how it goes when you return to the US.

[vir-jin]

I'm chemically unbalanced, hee, hee.
Billions of folks' brains are pumping depression juices. Not me.
Prenatal -- I was calm and non-kicking.
As a baby, I was all smiles, gurgling and never cried.
Grade school-- I was a happy camper.
Teenage flew past me by without any angst and college was a breeze even when I was being arrested at protest marches.
Now, I live in a concrete slum with salary zombies and I'm smiling---- See. Unbalanced, hee, hee.

I'd say, I have very good chances

Prenatal-- I was calm and non-kicking
As a baby, I was all smiles and made everybody happy, they even decided to get my little sister, when I ate the whole box of my grandmothers heart medicine and they had to pump out my stomach, I was laughing and singing a lot of nice songs ( about a cockroach and some Chinese musicians) to all the nurses .
Grade school-- I was a happy ballet dancer, piano & violin player
Teenage- I withdrew from the world and did some secret research on my own, did some protest marches and was reprimanded from my director, but never harmed. He even told me he would miss me when I graduated from High School.
Will I be harmed for being a FG in Japan? NO!

2005 No1 secret target was carried out successful:
I got the FG premium membership!