When you live outside Japan, you hear a lot of crazy stories/anecdotes about how things are in Japan, about how people live and how they behave. Before I came to Japan, I had heard a lot of these stories and I was quite disappointed that most of them were wrong actually! I imagined Japan being such a futuristic place where they used robots to do all sorts of stuff. Now, not like in a science fiction movie, but in the same way “roomba” does the vacuum, I was expecting to find handy robots to do other chores or tasks. But, no, instead, I found out that during cold winter, you use kerosene heater to heat the main room of your apartment and you leave the window opened so that you don’t suffocate from the kerosene smoke…
So last September, as I walked around Shibuya, one day, I came across that interesting building shaped as a Power Ranger robot; I was quite surprised, actually. That was what I expected Japan to be like!
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