YJです

I am YJ.

As of the time of writing, i am sitting in my small IK room of around 9 tatami mats, in a place which used to be the heart of Edo. Now, it is a place where locals loathe all foreigners - if they are not white and especially of Asian decent. I have finished sipping my glass of sake. The lingering smell of my Mild Seven 6's floats in my small room.

I am in Tokyo, a place where thegreatsze dreams almost everyday. I am in a land of dreams to many, yet to one who is here it might just be another paradise lost. Japan, though shiny on the surface hides an undercurrent that is in a politically correct term "conservative". In another word it would have to be "fucked up".

The world of Japan is fucked up. I use this term in an ambivalent way. I do not love Japan, yet i do not hate it. I long to get away from it, but important things in the world keep me from leaving it. I hope that I would be able, among the chorus of praise for all things Nippon, present a different but real life image to what is this unfathomable land of the rising sun.

またね