Category: Travel
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Chasing the Gaijin: Tokyo to Osaka
The first thing you notice when you land in Japan: the place is filled with Japanese people. Not just filled, overflowing. It sounds like a stupid thing to say, but it is a shock after living in a city as ethno-diverse as Washington, DC. Outside of the airport and certain tourist hotspots, it is 99.5%…
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Chasing the Gaijin: Sam goes to the land of the Rising Sun
It hasn’t been the same since my old roommate Chase left for Japan eight months ago. The local sonic landscape lost a source of pervasive indie-rock. There is one less Maoist messenger bag wandering the streets of Alexandria. Those cold winter nights without sexually ambiguous physical contact leave many in the DC metro area wanting,…