tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5540266691729205856.post414851196456314400..comments2023-06-11T15:41:33.472+01:00Comments on Superfluous Bear: An Intermission to Beijing - and, with sadness, some reflections on Toyko after five years living in itChaobanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02661257320091252500noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5540266691729205856.post-58603033653571820492016-10-08T02:58:08.045+01:002016-10-08T02:58:08.045+01:00Thank you for your comment. 22 years here is impre...Thank you for your comment. 22 years here is impressive; you have been here for most of the Heisei period then, and would surely be in a much better position than me to assess the ways Japan has changed and not changed over this timescale. It is truly a stress-inducing environment, all the sadder for how out of step it is with both its own soul as a country (the stories, the culture etc.), especially when contrasted with so many of the areas outside Tokyo. Chaobanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02661257320091252500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5540266691729205856.post-53399265831653491322016-10-07T21:48:24.668+01:002016-10-07T21:48:24.668+01:00Nice. I have been thinking along similar lines re...Nice. I have been thinking along similar lines recently, finding it more and more difficult to love, even like, this country that I've called home for 22 years. This feeling has caused me all kinds of undue stress. More and more time spent abroad, not to mention intense disgust at the abusive power structure current in play, has forced me to take a deeper at Japan, shaking me from the somnambulic bubble that life here tends to induce. <br /><br />On a lighter note, when I first heard that Beijing was getting the Olympics, the quickly booked a flight over, doing little but biking around the hutong for three days. I imagine most of those I saw are long gone now. Edward J. Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04315009873411729483noreply@blogger.com