Translation is inherently a leaky pursuit (and I'm no native Japanese speaker, so I can't unequivocally translate the word 'ikigai'), but I can say as a lover o

Translation is inherently a leaky pursuit (and I'm no native Japanese speaker, so I can't unequivocally translate the word 'ikigai'), but I can say as a lover of language that the value of such a word to a foreigner is it's beautiful concision.