For those of you who’ve been regular readers of this blog, thank you very much for your support.
I’d also like to thank those of you who stopped by every once-in-a-while or who are arriving here for the first time, now.
I could never decide whether to make this a personal blog or a site for information and social networking. Therefore, it has mostly been a mix.
But, the site I’ve really always wanted to have is now up and running and I have little time to dedicate to a site like Barbarian at the Gate. The Japan-related issues that I normally like to write about are being written and posted at my new site by five contributors, including myself. Therefore, I’m not going to be adding new content to this site anymore. However, I hope you’ll stop by my new site and have a look; I think you’ll find it to be worth the visit.
The new site is: http://pointofexit.com

Of course, feel free to continue to browse this site and let me know if you have any questions.
billywest@rocketmail.com
I’m just another foreigner living in Japan. I live in South Tokyo just outside of the huge ex-pat community. I hope that what you find here in these pages will be useful, informative, entertaining, or some combination of the three. And, if you have anything you’d like to share, feel free. I, for one, enjoy learning new things and hope to learn something from everyone who has something they want to share here. So come on in, browse, and share.









Well thank you too, it has been very enjoyable reading your posts and 7:10 to Tokyo is now also a favourite of mine so i will still keep up with your postings on there.
Well hello haven’t been by for some time as I was ill but finally went through my files and thought Got to love that bailout plan. It is too special.
I would pop in to say HELLO. Take Care
Hi,
Only a few words to alert about the new blog directory for people living abroad, travelers and expatriates: BlogExpat:
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This free blog service has become a directory of expat blogs, open to any blog of people living abroad. This is an exciting new feature and you can immediately add your expat/travel blog in the BlogExpat directory and help us grow the community:
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You will get a personal page for the profile of your blog with its latest posts and will be able to reach easily expat, travelleurs, targeted visitors and neighbours who can find you thanks to our Google Maps.
We hope to see you soon on http://www.blogexpat.com.
PS: you can also add our logo with the appropriate colours to your blog here:
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Thanks for the post and update. I will have to check out the new site.
Cheers
It’s a shame you stop blogging, i really love your post
I try to go to the new site and I get forwarded to a link page that wants to sell me stuff.
Is this normal?