My past travel excursions haven't been quite so adventurous as this one, but I've had very good experiences with travel agencies thus far.
OTOH, sites like Kayak (http://www.kayak.com/) make finding affordable fares on your own very feasible. A quick search for 2 round-trip Albany-Osaka fares, Business Class, on your schedule above, gave me a lowest price in the low $8000 per/ range. Fly into Tokyo, instead, and you can knock a couple of grand off of that. I don't know if that brings it into the realm of the feasible for you two, but it's certainly not 5 digits.
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OTOH, sites like Kayak (http://www.kayak.com/) make finding affordable fares on your own very feasible. A quick search for 2 round-trip Albany-Osaka fares, Business Class, on your schedule above, gave me a lowest price in the low $8000 per/ range. Fly into Tokyo, instead, and you can knock a couple of grand off of that. I don't know if that brings it into the realm of the feasible for you two, but it's certainly not 5 digits.