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When i became a man, i put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from france and japan.
In japan people drive on the left. in china people drive on the right. in vietnam it doesn't matter.
The russians could have some (warheads) aimed at japan, so if we act up they can destroy our economy.
On behalf of my native japan, i am grateful to the culinary community and hospitality industry for working together to raise much-needed funds to aid the tsunami and earthquake victims.
In japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. nothing makes any sense. they're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there.
It is hard to be an individual in japan.
But i didn't walk a single step. i stopped a lot to stretch, but i never walked. i didn't come here to walk. i came to run. that's the reason-the only reason-i flew all the way to the northern tip of japan. no matter how slow i might run, i wasn't about to walk. that was the rule.
In japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. i think 90 percent of japan's writers live in tokyo. naturally, they make a community. there are groups and customs, and so they are tied up in a way.
I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since i graduated. i haven't belonged to any company or any system. it isn't easy to live like this in japan.
Listen - god only exists in people's minds. especially in japan, god's always been kind of a flexible concept. look at what happened after the war. douglas macarthur ordered the divine emperor to quit being god, and he did, making a speech saying he was just an ordinary person. so after 1946 he wasn't god anymore. that's what japanese gods are like--they can be tweaked and adjusted. some american comping on a cheap pipe gives the order and presto change-o--god's no longer god. a very postmodern kind of thing. if you think god's there, he is. if you don't, he isn't.
In japan they prefer the realistic style. they like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. i want to leave them wide open to every possibility. i think my readers understand that openness.
Space is about 100 kilometers away. that’s far away—i wouldn’t want to climb a ladder to get there—but it isn’t that far away. if you’re in sacramento, seattle, canberra, kolkata, hyderabad, phnom penh, cairo, beijing, central japan, central sri lanka, or portland, space is closer than the sea.
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