<p>hi, I’m from Japan… and live in Japan.
I guess you can learn alot of basic japanese being here… but alot of the places have translations in english.
So it’s not like, unless you know japanese you can’t get around.
you can get around perfectly fine w/o being able to speak japanese.
not sure tokyo will be a great choice. although, the city is very busy and much like NYC.
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