Stephen: Yes. I was ***** by a company GEOS Language Systems in Japan which at the time was the world's ******* English academy. They have a branch office in Vancouver where I was ********** and trained and hired and they sent me to Japan. My prerequisite for the *** was that I wanted to **** in Tokyo. I did not want to live in the countryside because my ********** or ***** of the countryside was that it ***** ** quite backwards. Little did I know it was *** **** the truth.