We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 January 2024
The first time I went to Japan, nearly three decades ago now, I took a short walk from my hotel near the University of Tokyo into the foggy and still night without a map, without the World Wide Web, without any knowledge of the Japanese language. It was November, a thick white blanket of almost frozen vapour covering everything outside, including my visual and mental perception. As my spectacles fogged up, adding another layer to my perceptual fogginess, I walked a hundred paces one way down the street then back again. Then another hundred in the other direction. Turning a corner to the left, then back again. Then two hundred in the other direction. You get the picture; I was building an image, a mind-map, of an unusually silent foggy island within the usually hustle-bustling city of Tokyo. When I felt I had done enough mental mapping I went back to my hotel room and drew a physical map on a scrap of paper of my walk. I have it somewhere still.
To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.
Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.
