On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 19:54:34 +0100, Jean-Marc Desperrier
<jmdesp@alussinan.org> belched the alphabet and kept on going with:

>Bryce wrote:
>> [...] If you wait until you are 40 and 50 and move back to your own
>> country, and you can't do shit there, what's the point? You've gotta get out
>> before it's too late or stay the entire time.... 
>
>I know one person who came back after 20 years. And he seems to be 
>getting along rather well :-)

Precisely why it is so difficult to answer questions such as the
original poster asked. It is impossible to state with certainty what
will happen.

They may succeed and live the life of Riley here, staying until they
die at a ripe old age. Or they may get disgusted and leave in six
months, taking with them a profound and everlasting hatred of Japan.
Or anything in between.