About
The bridge I wished existed
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Right after high school, I moved to the US without speaking English, and had to learn it from scratch once I got there. Along the way, I worked with my hands: as a handyman, on home builds, cleaning for a Chinese restaurant, as a property manager, later in marketing, and many other roles besides. Every one of those jobs taught me something different about how to actually get things done, and how much trust matters when someone hands you their space, their business, or their story.
Mission
That feeling of happiness that wells up on the way home after a good conversation with a good person. While reflecting on that conversation during the journey home, you also reconsider your actions and your future. I want to be someone who creates conversations like that. At the same time, no matter how old I get, I want to remain an adult who stays humble, engages in meaningful conversations, and rethinks himself on the way home.
I met so many incredible people during those years who supported me, especially in the first couple of years, when I couldn’t speak the language at all. I can never thank them enough for that. When I came back to Japan, I wanted to be that same kind of support from the other side: welcoming people the way I was welcomed, and building the bridge I wished had existed for me.
I’ve lived the process myself, too. I bought an akiya, renovated it, and turned it into a rental property. I’m not advising from the outside. I’ve made the same decisions I help my clients make.
