Nipponica

It is said that home is the place you long for when you are lost in the world. The place where you can be the person you are rather than the person you have to be.

For your narrator, this place is the land that lies beyond the sliding doors that separate the void from the Arrivals Floor in Haneda Airport in Tokyo Bay. Past the immigration sentries, the luggage daycare, and the passage of non-declaration, those doors are a portal to the country that took me in when I was lost in the world many years ago.

I am writing this far from those doors, that floor, and the country beyond. I think of that place every day. I will return there someday, back to my home. But for now, I am watching it from afar.

Nipponica is the outlet for my love of Japan. It is a link blog where I can opine about my home from my perch on the other side of the ocean. For those that think of Japan as home, or those who are Japan-curious, I hope you can find value in what is here.

よろしく