Unlike, it seems, almost everyone else who moves to Japan I didn’t go because I was already interested in some aspect of Japan. I wasn’t interested in Japanese animation. I didn’t have an interest in Japanese music. I didn’t have an interest in Japanese food, history or martial arts. I hadn’t studied Japanese in school. In fact, I had no specific interest in Japan at all. I had a couple of friends who had watched some anime. I had even been with them one time when we were thirteen or fourteen as they watched some anime, but I had such a lack of interest I hadn’t even watched with them.…