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A story of passing through worlds. Inspired by days in Hakodate.

A short essay on the Coffee Subculture in Japan

The final piece in the three-part series about my year as an exchange student in Sapporo, Japan

This is a three-part series about my year as an exchange student in Japan

This is a three-part series about my year as an exchange student in Sapporo, Japan. Japan greets me with kind, alien arms. Tokyo is eerily silent, then overwhelmingly full of buzzing sounds. Each street vacillates between the deafness of being plunged underwater, then breaking the surface to a crash of blinding lights. I only pass through, intrigued and intimidated by this new world. When I confess to restaurant owners that I’ll be studying in Hokkaido, they all gush in awe,

The only constant in life is change. To embrace its moving body requires skill and bravery - both of which I seem to possess, but...