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Three Japanese Short Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

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I will probably be here, doing nothing, for the time being. Indeed, I may have to spend the rest of my life like this. Not that I am surprised to find myself in this situation. The question of what I should do once I returned to Japan is ...more

what it feels like to live abroad – kind of feels like a really long vacation, temporarily vanishing away from the world, pausing your "real" life in your own country