Once, on a warm Tokyo night, as we sat with drinks at a bar in Shibuya, my Japanese date asked me something I had never considered before.
"When you watch TV by yourself, do you laugh when there is something funny?"
Conversation hadn't been smooth. She was intelligent and spoke good English, yet my thoughts on Japan's foreign policy had met little response, if any.
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