I don't mind putting my foot in my mouth. That's one way to keep it clean.

So here goes . . .

I say the trickiest adjustment to living in Japan is not in learning to successfully miscommunicate in Japanese . . . nor in developing disregard for the probing eyes and elbows of packed urban life . . . nor even in growing accustomed to eating food that sometimes looks like it might have already been eaten once by somebody else.