Software engineer and farmer living in rural Japan.

If you’re looking for a remote senior software engineer (most recently golang, but I’ve worked in a little bit of everything in the last 20 years), I’d love to hear from you. Japan PR, Canadian and US citizenship. Native English speaker, proficient Japanese, learning Norwegian (now between A2 and B1, though listening/speaking is lagging a bit due to lack of chance to practice), and some very rusty German and French I could get back to speed on.

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  • Yep. I moved to rural Japan because my company was fine with remote anywhere in Japan. Started my small farm and my life here. They assured me it wouldn’t be a barrier for advancement as well.

    Now, the same company is trying to get everyone fulltime back in the office, over 4 hours each way from my house. They won’t pay the cost of even one day. I will likely lose my job. I don’t think I live through this.
















  • Books written vertically in Japanese are largely read right-to-left, but horizontally-written books are now more commonly left-to-right, particularly magazines and such. Newspapers can be a bit all over the place.

    There’s no reason one couldn’t publish a smaller-form-factor book in English, but what’s the market for that? No one is going to do it without a market. People in the US often carry big bags or drive as opposed to using public transit like in a lot of urban Japan where space can be smaller.