This was a good article, but I think it was good because of the portrait it paints of the man he met. I'm not calling all the claims about having learned someth

This was a good article, but I think it was good because of the portrait it paints of the man he met. I'm not calling all the claims about having learned something "about Japan" unwarranted, but let me offer by way of counterbalance this invaluable essay I read some time ago and to which I've returned whenever someone brings up Japan like this. [0] [0] http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2014/08/let-me-explain-japan-for-westerners.html http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2014/08/let-me-explain-ja...