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first meeting

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

First thing I crossed the city center from Kameido to Shinjuku to go to a book store that I knew had English-language map books. That left me with some time that I put to re-orienting myself. A LOT seems to have changed in the nine years I've been away, but the changes are positive: Tokyo is clearly booming.

I met with my first headhunters of this trip. They're an executive search business located in an office in an out-of-the-way place just central enough to suit such a business but not so well placed that it would be too expensive. They told me that I'd be well served to move to Tokyo and start a search from there, and to expect said search to take months. They also wanted to look into some of the largish retail firms such as Rakuten and Amazon Japan, which are operating largely in English.

We'll see.