Reminiscences About Japan

3 of Us lived in a yojohan in Nerima Ku

​In the early 1970's - it sounds so long ago now, I remember flying to Japan for the first time.  747's Were the big thing then and a ticket was in the $200 range. On approach I saw the fabled  MT. Fuji (never forget the "San") rise out of the water surrounded by a brown haze as the plane banked up the coast towards Tokyo and Haneda airport.  It was a powerful sensation, not to wax too romantic to see Japan rise up out of the ocean after hours cramped in a plane.

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