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- I went to Japan with no definite plan on leaving. It was a post-grad
school adventure, and a time to be without a plan. Right after graduation
with a master’s degree in social work that I wasn’t keen on using right
away, the interim goal was to find a job teaching English abroad, most
likely in Asia somewhere. An ad in the Boston Globe lead me to Nova Group
– what turned out to be a corporate-run extensive network of English language
schools all over Japan. They were looking for candidates in possession
of a B.A in English to teach in the Kanto (Tokyo, Yokohama) and Kansai
(Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe) regions of the country. After a perfunctory
interview during which my credentials were verified, I was hired pending
further visa application. This was the beginning of my odyssey. A
few months later in September of 1994, I was flying an Asiana Airlines
widebody to Tokyo Narita airport. -
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