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Life at the kōban
Recounting the imagined musings of a Tokyo beat cop… All the wide happy and the scattering crowds, these are which I watch over. For I am police, I am law. It is good I do this, for there is no …...
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Kamiya Bar (神谷バー)
Dedicated to my wife Michele… …to whom I have been married for 15 years as of today, and who lived and inspired this story and so many others in my heart’s yet unwritten library. The old timers had...
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Render the smoke into purified nothing
Tokyo is full of imaginary stories… I had never hoped to convince you of my place as a giant in this world. I appear as a dumpy man, a man of spent substance, and I hide in plain sight amongst …...
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Squinting at another reality
She was shuffling around Nakamise Dori, the shopping boulevard that leads to Sensō-ji in Asakusa. She touched a lot of elbows trying to speak to people who pulled away and ignored her. This did not...
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Yakuza leisure dōjō
Let’s alcohol with happy gangster human… Third in my ongoing S&R Tokyo Series. Here’s part one and part two. In Asakusa at Kamiya Bar (神谷バー) you never know who you might meet. My wife and I were...
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Old birds
Water flows around the rocks it cannot move… Part five of my S&R Tokyo Series They moved and talked the way old Japanese ladies often do, a bit hunched over but with animation and purpose. The...
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