I have a good college friend coming in on Tuesday for 10 days with his wife and I’ll be giving them the tour around Western Japan. Since I’m writing about personal finances I’ve been debating whether or not to include their trip out here or not. I figure it would be a shame not to include what we’re up to just because I think it’s going to be a lot of fun, but to keep the theme somewhat on line, I will be focusing on how money is spent and other finance related items much like I did with my trip to get re-registered in Japan. Hopefully it will be both educational from a finance and a cultural perspective. If nothing else, I’ll get lots of photos of Japan in between the posts to brighten the pages up and hopefully inspire those reading this to plan a trip to Japan sometime in the future (it’s a wonderful place to visit).