New city, new country, new challenges...and the hunt for proper sushi.

After 11 years in Tokyo I've moved back to Scotland, my first time to live in Edinburgh as well. So far no reverse culture shock, but I do really need a fix of proper sushi.

I will miss Japan, most of my friends are there, lots of very happy memories and I'm very happy that I managed to forge a good career as a freelance photographer for a lot of different media and private clients.

When I announced I was leaving everyone told me "there are no jobs in Scotland, you should stay here." However, I remember being told the same thing when I started out in Tokyo, "there're no jobs in Tokyo for foreign photographers unless you have the connections", "you'll never find work as the market is already saturated" but still I managed to build up from zero and make it work, all it took was hard work, being good and also having a lot of luck. It wasn't easy there, I'm sure it's not going to be easy here either but I am looking forward to the new challenges, the new mistakes I will learn from and the new people I'm going to meet along the way.

Here's to new starts, new challenges and hopefully some good sushi.

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