RetireJapan

Thank you for sending me that link, which I hadn't seen. It's length -16 pages - shows that, as you say, many people share my concerns. I've just read through it all. I found it absorbing, and quite moving too. Perhaps I shall take it upon myself to get a group going for "lifer" gaijin in Kansai.

Max wrote: ↑Wed Jul 17, 2024 5:21 am... Perhaps I shall take it upon myself to get a group going for "lifer" gaijin in Kansai.

I think Kyoto is home to a fair number of expats who are effectively retirees. People well known (or almost--and I hope that doesn't insult anyone), and well off, and who have pretty deep japan roots of some sort and in one way or another, their experience here likely dates from the 70s or before. Artists, writers, japanophiles, etc., and not people who are in obvious/mainstream online communities.

Here's another article (assuming the gift link works when published this way):

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/20/heal ... =url-share