Relaxing Memories of Japan | Send Me To Sleep | Rain Sounds
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I'll see you there, my friends. I don't think I see such obsession over culture in the world in the same way that I do for people's absolute love and fascination of Japanese culture. I don't know what that is. Well, actually I think I have a few good ideas that I'll probably discuss across this conversation, but Still, there is something unknowable, something that is difficult to precisely define about what it is that is so enticing about Japanese culture, Japanese history, and also especially sort of Japanese art, the things that the minds of Japanese people seem to produce is marvelous in a way that has captured the heart of the world. I think especially Western culture. And that might be because of its stark difference perhaps from Western culture and Western art.
Although I must say, after having been to Japan for a very short time, there are some crossovers, especially with British culture, specifically. I did feel that some of the politeness, shall we say, some of the social etiquette definitely crossed over, definitely overlapped. Although it's hard to say precisely when I wasn't there for so long. I've spoken during these conversations about a trip to Japan before and I think it was only four days, four full days in total that I spent my last trip and before I went I almost sort of debated whether it was even worth going because I knew that I was only going to be able to spend such a short time there And also only in Tokyo. Usually when people had travelled to Japan, then I knew they'd spent a number of weeks there.
And they'd not just seen Tokyo, but they'd travelled around a little bit. They'd perhaps made the time to go to Kyoto or other places across Japan to experience the full breadth of it. But not only did I not have very much time, but during that specific period that I'd gone to visit, they were having some fairly bad flooding in the area of Kyoto, and... It was fairly widely regarded as not a place that tourists should go or in fact really were welcome during that time. So as a means of respect, I didn't intend to travel there. But even still, I did decide to go because, well, I think ultimately I realized that I wasn't going to get very many opportunities, I think, again to travel that way. It was funny how it came about.
It was rather impromptu. In the end, I had a friend who was deciding that they wanted to go for a few weeks. And they decided fairly last minute as well. And they invited me. They asked me what I was doing and whether I might like to accompany them. But it was, like I say, just about five or six days into his planned trip that I was due to be back home, or I would have to be back home to start a piece of work, a job.
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