Software engineer here living in Japan for about the same time as the author, and with almost the same work experience. This article totally nails it. I have

Software engineer here living in Japan for about the same time as the author, and with almost the same work experience. This article totally nails it. I have bookmarked this so that every time a non-Japanese comes to me looking for advice related to moving and working in Japan (which I should mention, does not happen as often as it used to) I can just send them straight to this article.