Draw a big breath and admit it. Japan smells.
And what place doesn't? Take my hometown, for example, located close to Nowheresville, Illinois. The local aroma is a mix of clean living and hog manure, a tricky blend at that, one which my wife says I carried with me to Japan.
"But it wore off," she says. "Half of it anyway."
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