Thanks for the comments! We're glad we can give pe...

2005-02-07T00:31:00.000+09:00

Thanks for the comments! We're glad we can give people a little piece of Japan every day.

Contacting you has been on my list of things to do...

2005-02-02T05:07:00.000+09:00

Contacting you has been on my list of things to do for, oh, months I suppose. Though this method is a bit impersonal, I would just like to say thanks for providing me with a genuinely interesting weekly slice of life for an ex-pat in Japan. As my own interest in Japan has grown (a seed planted in me early as it was with you, although for me it was Ultraman) I have read your weekly updates from J-list and here on your blog with increasing interest. When I order things from J-list (which I do semi-annually, it seems), I get a bonus pleasant surprise in that the packing material is often Japanese newspaper or ads. I keep most of them, using them as a sort of goal as I slowly learn the language. I have made it most of the way through a Pizza-La ad from last year, and oddly find each minor accomplishment far more satisfying than completing the excercises in my teetering stack of "learning Japanese" books.

I hope to visit Japan someday soon (although I am afraid I simply won't want to come back) and feel ever more empowered by reading your ongoing success story. I try not to project, but it all seems so... familiar, as if yours is the sort of life I would have if only I had made a different turn back in 1992. That we seem to have many interests in common (ah, those beautiful women; oh, those wonderful Macs) makes it easy to feel I already know you, you a complete stranger. I am in theory a writer, and so this is high praise. Again, long overdue thanks.

Dean P.
apotheosis@yahoo.com

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