06: My almost-in-Tokyo life

How Saigon helps me think I could be in Japan

For a long time, I never thought that I was going to be able to visit Japan. It always loomed large in my mind as a prohibitively expensive place. And for an equally long time, it didn’t really bother me that I might never visit. As a teenager, I was obsessed with all things British, and as a picky eater, teriyaki chicken was about as far as I got into …