I wish more people understood Japan better. In point of candid admission, I wish I understood Japan better. It's not that Japanese people are so utterly inscrutable, that's an almost racist proposition. And it's an essentially silly one. It's not that Japan itself is so impossibly mysterious: other countries and cultures that shall remain nameless come much more readily to mind as inscrutable.
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The Grand Asian Master, no more than a few thousand years old, appeared to me yet again the other night. He does this from time to time when my frustrations with Asia go through the ceiling -- and up to the stars. He comes into my dreams and asks what it is that I want now! But the nice thing about this occasional dream is that the Grand Asian Master always tries to wish for me what I want. So here's what I said to the Master the other night:
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