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Thoughts on Life in Japan.
(From Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry (JJTI))
Byline: Philip Harper
I came to Japan at the age of 22. I arrived as a participant in the JET Program(me), an educational scheme run by various arms of the Japanese government, and fussily so printed in the heroic attempt to keep both the British and American contingents happy. Soon after I arrived, I ran a charity race by the Mukogawa River (Hyogo Prefecture), where I splashed 10 miles through the mud with one of the organisers. She was an athletic British woman, and she told me she had lived in Japan for 15 years. She might as well have said 15 centuries, it seemed such an unthinkable span of time ...
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