This is the introduction to my latest Guardian column. You can read the whole thing at:
A Desk In The Sun.
Setting up a business in the UK is difficult enough. Move abroad, adding the extra challenges of language, culture and bureaucracy to the mix, and it's enough to make most people go running to the nearest employer.
Of course, some places are tougher than others.
Japan would certainly be one of the last stable, advanced capitalist economies where I'd try to start a business. But it seems there's nowhere in the world that doesn't have some British entrepreneur toiling away… Click here to read more
