Tradition and imagination

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manga and

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anime and that like this fantastical

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world where the imagination is king and

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it just they run wild with their

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imagination. So, I love that

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justosition, the way that um you've got

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one thing on one side and then uh yeah,

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when they go a little bit wild, there's

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that whole other thing going on. I just

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find it endlessly fascinating. I've

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never been to Japan, but um my youngest

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son is nine and he would love to go. So

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maybe one day.

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Everything you imagine where it's zen

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and there's nothing there is complete

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opposite.

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You go to their shops and it's a counter

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where there's like one pen on there and

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a stapler, that is it.

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Okay.

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But in the house itself

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and behind those sliding doors,

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don't open them. It's a total mess.

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So is that completely disillusioned

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everyone about the Japanese culture?

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Right. because the insight that we are

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given is this very like um yeah like you

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say neat presentable

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a lot of it is but I'm just saying that

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is like the kitchen is just a bomb went

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off

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and you said you would like to go you

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think

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yeah definitely

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we really I I want to go because I can't

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think of anything better than seeing all

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the cherry blossoms and seeing you know

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Osaka seeing Tokyo seeing just how busy

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it is and seeing a completely different

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climate to what we experience. I love

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the idea of that.

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I'm a massive history nut, so I I like

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any sort of history.