I turned in my letter of resignation a couple of weeks ago. My boss asked me to take off and rethink my decision. It so happened there was this week-long training seminar in Tokyo, Japan and the boss thought it would do me a lot of good to spend a week in Tokyo. And so here I am at the Narita Airport, trying to figure out how to take the subway in Tokyo to reach my hotel in Kitasenju. Well, it wasn't really a hotel, but this association has put up learning centers in Tokyo and Hirohisma, where members can rent rooms at rates half what the hotels charge. Not bad, and it's clean clean, Japanese clean. I remember my foster brother, Kazuhiro Araki, an exchange student back in the 70's, who stayed with us for
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