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Missing Japan

I love traveling everywhere, but it is only Japan that I hate leaving.

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Eugene Rabkin
Dec 15, 2024
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In an Instagram story the girl’s eyes are welling up above her face mask. She is devastated; she is about to get on a plane to leave Japan. I know that feeling all too well. As of the moment of writing this, I have been back for a week from my seventh trip to the land of the rising sun, and my post-Japan blues has not abated. Neither has my wife’s. She’…

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