Jason is my friend in Seattle who spent six months in Japan during college, before I knew him. Jason claims he doesn’t know Japanese well, but I haven’t yet asked him a question he hasn’t been able to answer. I went off to Japan with a list of things Jason said I had to see, and I managed to see maybe a quarter of them: I got to see castles and palaces, and also little random shrines in the middle of nowhere. I never did get to climb Mount Fuji. Maybe next time. Jason has seen the Emperor in person, although they didn’t shake hands or anything. Jason doesn’t like fish, so I had always wondered how he managed to eat in Japan; I now understand, although I still think he was missing something.
Jason is probably sick of me nagging him to translate Japanese text.