Returners Checklist

• Starting to work on your resume? Here's a great place to start: http://www.jetresumes.blogspot.com/
• Pay your bills. The meters (gas, electricity sometimes water) can be read on your last day with bills paid in cash on the spot. Get your supervisor/office to call the utility company and have them send a man to your apartment.
• Don't forget NTT (dial 116, they have an English line), but don't disconnect the line unless it's yours to disconnect!
• Cancel internet connections and return rented equipment.
• Cancel cell phone.
• Pay for and cancel or redirect newspaper subscriptions, magazines, satellite TV subscriptions.
• Pay rent.
• You can have your mail redirected to any address in Japan for free, for one year. Ask at the Post Office.
• Before closing your bank account, make sure all bills are paid.
• Send your possessions well in advance of leaving.
• Get rid of trash.
• Leave your successor detailed notes of the syllabus you used, especially for elementary school. Use this form from CLAIR, it's quite good!