imouttahere@mac.com (Heywood Mogroot) wrote in> Oh, and study the friggin 
language. It isn't that hard to pick up
> kanji you see every day, quite fun actually.
> 

Thanks for the info...I'm coming through GEOS language corp, not a JET (my 
Japanese is nowhere near good enough to be a JET).
And I will be headed to Nagano City, but more specific info than that has 
yet to be divulged.