Do you think that in 4 years Japan's awful situation will get better?

Question:

Right now this is how things are:

• Horrible tsunami
• Diverses earthquakes
• If economy was bad now is going to be 10 times worse.
• No jobs (well that's a worldwide thing)
• Decreasing and low popullation. And now foreigners are leaving Japan

Japan was an awesome country when i visited it on 2005 Spring and last year's summer. I got a girfriend who's japanese and lives in Osaka. I asked her the same question i posted here and she said she's not sure about that. She also said that right now japanese people in the south are trying to help north people and some are volunteering. And the nort japanese and trying to cope with the tragedy they just went through, that right now japanese aren't considering about the economic situation, they are just trying to get thought this alive.

Being honest i make this question because i was considering that in 4 years i was going to be living in Japan with my girlfriend. She told me didn't want to leave Japan never in her life, but i didn't want to leave America either. So after several months i decided that being a 23 years old guy, speaking english and fluid japanese, i could move to Japan and at least work as an english teacher.

What do you think i should do? Should i reconsider my plans of moving to Japan? I haven't tell Ami about me moving with her to Japan, it was supposed to be a surprise. But now everything has changed around there.

Answer:

The tsunami was awful, but they constantly have earthquakes -- it is just this was the largest one to ever hit them.

The economy in Japan is bad simply because the economy in the United States is bad -- ours should head upward in the next 1-5 years.

There are jobs in the United States -- just in the obvious places (California, New York City type places)
For instance, I honestly never really saw any effects of the recession in my area.

The decline in birth rates is due to social issues.

I think Japan will recover. They are a highly-developed country, and I am sure that in 4 years (as long as the disasters dont keep coming like this), they should be back on their feet.



Good luck!