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When I was a child, my mother would load the three of us into the car, my sister, my brother and me, and take three days to reach her mother’s house.

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    How you speak. How you move. How you listen. In Japan, each has invisible rules no one wrote down. I'm a writer in Tokyo, a former Japanese language teacher. Every issue, I take one thing Japan has left unsaid and say it, carefully, in English.

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