How a Small Town Taught Me to Dream Big
Since returning home from this year’s IEJ program, I’ve re-dedicated myself to studying Japanese. And so when I came across an award-winning Japanese book, written in Japanese by an American, I thought that it would be a quality piece of Japanese literature that would be readable (given my proficient, but limited reading skills), but also enriching and challenging. In this book, translated into English and published under the title “Lost Japan”, the author Alex Kerr writes that in his travels to the Iya Valley in Shikoku he finally found the answer to the question of whether Japan was the kind of country where he would like to live. In returning to Japan for the first time in 15 years, I too found myself having this exact experience.
a collection of my recently published essays
