As I sit here by the wide window wall on the second floor of the Karaksa Hotel’s breakfast buffet which also serves as a lounge with free snacks and drinks in the late afternoon, a parade of working stiffs in white shirts, dark trousers and loafers are walking down the street below all in lock step, ready and eager to make Japan a better place for the world to do business with and an enjoyable tourist destination for those of us who are neither business minded nor care about the hustle and bustle of every life. Maybe not. And not that we really don’t give a hoot about the day-to-day lives of ordinary folks because after all, we are working stiffs ourselves, but we’re tourists in Japan enjoying life without having to think about work. And
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