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Hey all, so my family will be hopefully moving to Okinawa around mid to late August due to my wife’s job as a civil engineer for the army corps of engineers. We will begin under SOFA status and I will hopefully convince her to live stay permanently once we get settled m. Anyways we have to stay for at least two years and maximum of 5 I believe before being required to return to the states for some reason. So my question is: if we do end up wanting to live in Japan permanently want is it that we would need to do to facilitate that process.

Second we will also have two kids with personal interests in having another. We know we need to become fluent in Japanese and learn more about the culture than what is probably over exaggerated in the anime we watch. We probably can’t take her off SOFA due to the housing compensation we will get from her job but if I can begin working to account for that loss it may not be the thing that makes or breaks our wishes. Thanks you to anyone that can provide insight. And anything is missing context please let me know as I don’t know what maybe important or just useless information

Hey all, so my family is more than probably moving to Okinawa around August or late July. She works for the Army Corp of Engineers so we have quite a bit of perks supporting us. More importantly we are bringing our two kids of which my son had a heart transplant. So if anyone has some excellent pediatrician and cardiologist recommendations either on island or on the mainland that would be great. My wife was recently diagnosed as cancer free so a local OB/GYN that can do or recommend clinics for follow up screenings will also be super helpful.

My wife and I are incredibly outdoorsy so I’m sure we will be active in all that we can. For myself I’m a personal trainer(certified and have an undergrad degree) and giant video game nerd so any recommendations are to satisfy those things that would also be great. Also any hifi/audiophile spots would be cool if not I’m sure areas around Tokyo could satisfy that.

For our kids my son will be heading into second grade this coming year and my daughter will be turning 3 in October. Is there anything we should look out for in regards to them both or just enroll as if he was another foreign kid and find a great daycare for my daughter?

I’m sure I’m probably leaving things out but thanks for any help. Once we get official orders on going we will work on the language and cultural differences (thank god for being anime nerd to help facilitate that).