Not so lost in translation
“Summer of 2018” doesn’t roll off the tongue like the (in)famous Bryan Adams song. However, it too will stick in my memory, but for all the right reasons. Last October, my wife and I snatched a ridiculously cheap airfare to Japan for the whole family. The closest I had got to Japan before was through long and fascinating discussions with a Japanese flatmate about the cultural differences between us. The perceived gap from both sides was so large that it