Thanks Dom. Its not the pay or time off, it's having to study for ten months! Even for an RJ which I am already typed in. I have previous 757/767 time as well. JAL, will have a hard time as will/do all the Asian carriers. The reason the Japanese carriers are having a bit of hard time getting really high qualified guys is because of the really excessively long training.

NCA keeps changing business ideas and my buddy is not sure what the hell is going on.

Japan is a beautiful country and the people are lovely but 9-10 months to train already qualified pilot seems to be overkill. Also, why is it always so damn windy in Japan. And of course there's Godzilla.