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I always had a sense that i would fall in love with tokyo. in retrospect i guess it's not that surprising. i was of the generation that had grown up in the '80s when japan was ascendant (born aloft by a bubble whose burst crippled its economy for decades), and i'd fed on a steady diet of anime and samurai films.

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Junot Diaz

I always had a sense that i would fall in love with tokyo. in retrospect i guess it's not that surprising. i was of the generation that had grown up in the '80s when japan was ascendant (born aloft by a bubble whose burst crippled its economy for decades), and i'd fed on a steady diet of anime and samurai films.

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I remember my very first encounter with japan. at that time, i was deputy mayor of st petersburg. out of nowhere, japan's consul general in st petersburg came to my office and said japan's ministry of foreign affairs wanted to invite me to japan. i was very surprised because i had nothing to do with japan except being a judoka. this was an opportunity to visit tokyo and a couple of other cities. and, you know, a capital is a capital everywhere: there is the official script and certain protocol. it is always easier to talk in the provinces, the conversation is more natural.

I think that one of the visions that is closest to reality is the cardboard city in the subway station in tokyo, which is based very closely on a series of documentary photographs of people living like that and of the contents of the boxes. those are quite haunting because tokyo homeless people reiterate the whole nature of living in tokyo in these cardboard boxes, they're only slightly smaller than tokyo apartments, and they have almost as many consumer goods. it's a nightmare of boxes within boxes.

I've not won different awards - many, many times - so luckily i've practiced that whenever you are nominated for anything, you enter into this marvelous, fantabulous bubble called the bubble of nomination. the minute the envelope is opened and your name isn't called out, the bubble bursts. and no one calls you up the next day to say, 'so sorry you didn't win,' or 'you looked gorgeous - nothing. if you win, you get about another 24 hours in that lovely bubble and then - pop - you are slightly wet all over from the bubble and realize that you have to get on with real life.

One of the things i've always loved about anime is that, even though it comes from japan, it's so international - so much of the big anime i love takes place in italy or france or new york.

Today's children are living a childhood of firsts. they are the first daycare generation; the first truly multicultural generation; the first generation to grow up in the electronic bubble, the environment defined by computers and new forms of television; the first post-sexual revolution generation; the first generation for which nature is more abstraction than reality; the first generation to grow up in new kinds of dispersed, deconcentrated cities, not quite urban, rural, or suburban.

From the great depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the current economic crisis caused by the housing bubble, every economic downturn suffered by this country over the past century can be traced to federal reserve policy. the fed has followed a consistent policy of flooding the economy with easy money, leading to a misallocation of resources and an artificial 'boom' followed by a recession or depression when the fed-created bubble bursts.

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