Over the course of my week in Tokyo, I was asked many times about my opinion on how this transition can be achieved.
Last week I booked my flights to Tokyo and Hong Kong for October on Delta through its Diamond Desk.
The flight time to Hong Kong is four-and-a-half hours, and it takes almost that long to get to Narita airport from my home in Tokyo.
Reflecting on my time in Tokyo, it seems to me that now is a time of profound choices for Japanese workers, and particularly the Generation Y of Japan.
In just four weeks, a team of dedicated copy editors (including my friend, Tokyo-based journalist Sandra Barron) and translators pulled together numerous mini-essays, photos, and drawings from contributors across the world.
He must have thought that my parents would be impressed by the name Tokyo Musashino Music College, but my father's unexpected reply rendered him speechless.
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Huddled with my wife in our Tokyo apartment during the post-quake swarm of tremors, we felt a deep kinship via the Internet with many friends throughout the world.
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My friend Seitaro in Tokyo, who studied nuclear physics in college, faults the Japanese government for stoking panic over the breakdowns at the Fukushima reactors Friday and Saturday by failing to adequately explain what was going on.
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Comparing the Chinese and Japanese economies historically, in my own lifetime a banana was seen as a luxury item in Tokyo as late as the early 1960s, and my Japanese relatives did not purchase cars until the late 1960s (when they were in their early 40s).
Another part of the delay was needing to finish some projects which first prevented by relocation from Shanghai to Tokyo, then fully occupied my time for a few weeks.
All in all, it seems that my source Gerhard Fasol, of the Tokyo-based Eurotechnology consulting firm, was right in speculating from the outset that the grounding of the 787 would continue for weeks, if not months.
Soon after the government issued the blackout warning, I walked around my neighborhood in Kichijoji, an upscale suburb of Tokyo where I live.
"The Nikkei moves are leading yen moves, because my sense is that's where positions are bigger, " said Derek Halpenny, analyst at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ in London.
After leaving DC I put my efforts towards special events and fundraising for Asians for Miracle Marrow Matches, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Little Tokyo Service Center and BronxWorks along with many volunteer projects.
One of my closest friends has a son who studied both computer science and Japanese in college and also spent two summers in Tokyo, first taking language classes and then working as an intern at a technology company.
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