Bravo
Wow, good for you. It's so easy to surmise and point fingers but evidently more is happening than is read here on prune. I would have a hard time imagining ANA allowing you to continue training if you had an attitude problem and if you did have an attitude problem, how could you have survived in Japan for 17 years.
Good luck with your training and Boo to those that would try to interrupt that process.
The fat man.......