I wish more people understood Japan better. I wish I understood Japan better.
It's not that Japanese people are so utterly inscrutable; that's an almost racist proposition.
And it's not that Japan itself is so impossibly mysterious; other countries and cultures (which will remain nameless) come much more readily to mind as inscrutable.
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