It's dusk in Atsugi.

I don't know when or if I'll ever see this view again. The well-lit small building on the left is the empty 学生ホール / gakusei hooru / student hall in the middle of spring break at Tokyo Polytechnic University in Atsugi, my home for the last 3 years.

So many has happened in the last 3 years. I went to Japan, lived on my own, far away from family for about a year. Got married. Lived with my wife in our own little Japanese apartment that we call home. She gave birth to our first baby. I got a doctoral degree. I published 2 papers in an international journal and 1 in a Japanese journal. I made many new friends from around the world. I went to Europe for the first time. And many more things.

Today, I'm leaving Atsugi again. I'll still be in Japan though for just a little while longer. And this is far from goodbye from the Japan! Japan! blog. There's more to blog about Japan, but...

It's dusk in Atsugi, indeed.

carbonaramara

I will now really officially stop blogging here regularly.

That is, unless yet another new chapter in my life here in Japan begins anew. :-D  If there would be one, it won't be until two years after, so yes, I'm really stopping blogging now.

I will still post a few on occasion though to catch up on some blog backlogs, or if there is really something very interesting or something very pressing that begs to be shared to you all. I have quite a long list but unfortunately I am still too busy to edit and post them all online soon.

I also plan to split up the recent two blog posts (Welcome to Japan, Parts 1 and 2) into more manageable parts, for easier reference for the rest of the world who are coming to Japan to live or to visit.

In any case, for your Life-in-Japan entertainment, The Japan! Japan! Blog officially endorses carbonaramara - my wife's blog - which has now started to document our life together here in Japan while I start to become busy with my research work and dissertation.

From 67 posts in 2005, 164 posts in 2010, to almost 240 posts totally; we wish 33% of our readers in the US, 30% in Japan, 20% from the Philippines, and the rest from Germany, South Korea, Canada, Russia, France, the UK, and Argentina, that you have all been entertained by the light and funny moments and the occasional drama, and by Japan's awesomeness.

It was certainly a blast!  Thank you, one and all.