This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kira Bella, 25, the CEO of Kirameki, an experiential travel company in Japan. It's been edited for length and clarity. After graduating from college, I made plans to travel indefinitely, and I began with a year visiting 16 countries across Asia and Europe — but Japan checked all the boxes for me in a way that nowhere else did. I moved there on a 6-month working holiday visa and kept extending it. During that time, I found a few jobs and