i'll personally be graduating from college in May '06 and I'm lucky to say I've secured myself a full-time offer with a consulting firm in New York. I'm also looking into a potential opportunity to work for one of the bulge bracket investment banks in Tokyo in their real estate private equity division but I am at this point unable to quantify both opportunities and compare them.

If you work in either industry or just feel like you know the topic well enough to give me some advice, pm me and I'll give you the details