Blizzardboy | A Kiwi in Japan

Found this blog set up by a foreigner living and doing business in Sapporo. He has also started a business directory for Sapporo and Hokkaido. Looks to be in the early stages of development at the moment, but quite a promising resource for business and general information relating to Japan’s northenmost island.

He posted about his experiences setting up an English school in Japan, and compares this with working for the “big” four – the main english teaching companies. His experience was that it took four months to achieve income parity with an instructor at one of those companies which is an excellent achievement . Well worth checking out if you are thinking of doing something similar.

If you are looking for a general directory covering businesses throughout Japan the Japan Telephone Directory – iTownPage is a good place to start, although the interface is not particularly well designed.