Working in Japan.

I was half-joking in the other forum, but it'd make for an interesting topic anyway. I don't think I can offer that much job-hunting advice, but I'll tell you what I know. I'm from New Zealand and I was atcually there on a year long project for my company here - it's was a large scale php / mysql email system - I was doing php programming and linux / UNIX administration. At first I was there with four others from my company and that was cool, we all had a good time and worked really hard, but they left after four months and I was working by myself which I didn't really like. That was one reason for leaving, but I had always planned to come back after a year anyway and go back to University. I met quite a few IT guys over there though, and most of them got their jobs through agencies and job sites. Some of the companies I talked to through my work wanted to hire forigners aswell. Alot of the guys I met didn't speak Japanese, and almost all of them were C++ or Java programmers. My friend who has lived in Japan for a long time told me that if you can speak Japanese and program you will pretty much always be able to find work. If you have some other questions I'll try and answer them, but I'd try and find a recruitment agency that specialises in IT and I'm sure you'll be able to find something through them. What are you guys doing for work at the moment? I have two more years of University and then I'll hopefully have a BA in Japanese and I definatly intened to go back.