6 Comments
Mike
6 months ago

So pretty.

Love Japan

Your Indian Friend
6 months ago
Reply to  Mike

Have you been to Japan?

Mike
6 months ago

In the 1980s. Yes. To Nagoya for a week. (My high school football teammate, who I had traveled to England with after his high school graduation, staying with his uncles and aunts there, he had moved to Nagoya for grad school at 名古屋大学 Nagoya University. I was there just after I’d finished school, and just before entering the workforce. I also visited a girl two years younger than me from my old neighborhood. She was living in Tokyo. So I saw the two airports, the two neighborhoods of the two cities I was in, and saw the views from the bullet train between the cities. I didn’t do the tourist thing. Did the visit friends thing. Then flew to Seoul to see a different buddy, experience the tear gas in the morning thing. And the couldn’t believe how many cicadas were covering every tree in Nagoya. Loved the takoyaki (たこ焼き) (fried octopus balls) you could buy on every corner. And all theアイスコーヒー Aisukōhī (Ice Coffee) vending machines. Was shocked at how many young men were reading pornographic manga doujin things in public, in busses and trains, with women all around to see them doing it. Wasn’t at all like in… Read more »

Your Indian Friend
6 months ago
Reply to  Mike

Sounds like a great time. You should go again soon. It’s changed a lot since then.
I’d love to hear what you’ve noticed changed.

Mike
5 months ago

Think that if I every went back, it would have to be to do the tourist thing.

All my friends who ever lived in Japan are now back to the USA.. . .

Damian
1 month ago
Reply to  Mike

Japan is great was there for three months and wish stayed longer