JAPAN: my thoughts and impressions after more than 12 (13?) years here, off and on.

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I cannot believe I have made Japan "home" for as long as I have. I use the quotes, as it can never really feel like one to a non-Japanese. I am a 'gaijin', an outsider, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. We get to avoid many of the expectations, like working late. And the holidays are awesome. (I travel 3-6 months out of the year.) But living in Japan is much like staying in a very comfortable hotel night after night--it's great, but after awhile one longs for his own bed. And while the front desk is very kind and polite, they are hard to make real friendships with. I have lived in Shikoku, Kyushu, Ibaraki (the year best forgotten), and now Tokyo. "Irasshiamse!" Welcome.

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  Asagaya, my neighborhood for all my Tokyo years   Tokyo, Japan on Jun 19, 2004 11 pictures 0 comments
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  TOKYO   Tokyo, Japan on Jun 20, 2004 31 pictures 0 comments
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  Kamakura   Kamakura, Japan on Jun 20, 2004 8 pictures 0 comments
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  KYOTO--ancient capital of Japan   Kyoto, Japan on Nov 23, 2004 53 pictures 0 comments
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  Tokyo   Tokyo, Japan on Dec 7, 2004 10 pictures 0 comments
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  Snow Monkeys in Nagano, Japan   Nagano, Japan on Feb 18, 2007 15 pictures 0 comments