Introduction

1986-2002

I'm going to put in this blog things that I wrote during the months after leaving Japan in 2002.

I could say that I lived for sixteen years in Japan. But it would be more accurate to say that I lived for sixteen years in Kumamoto City (which is the capital of Kumamoto Prefecture in Kyushu), sixteen years in the suburb of Shin-oo-e, and sixteen years in the same house. Generalisations about "Japan" based on this experience should be taken with a pinch of salt.

Farrell Cleary