日本製ではない
昔々（80年代後半）、動物学を専攻し、日本語を副専攻した後、私（カナダの三世）は、海洋生物学を学び、日本語を練習し、そしておそらく自分自身を見つけるために日本に行くことを決めました。それが何を意味するにせよ。ここにその時のいくつかのシーンを紹介します。
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Breaking Fast
2014年1月15日 • レイモンド・ナカムラ
BreakfastsWere processed, Warm and white. Soup, often corn, Always a powder, Poured into a plastic bowlThat looked lacquered. Added water, Boiled in an aluminum kettle On the rusting gas table. In the shiny red toaster oven, Toasted a single piece of white bread, Soft and square and thick,With tiny holes Like styrofoam, Something to do with Japanese flour. On top Sat a single piece of white processed cheese Plasticized At its melting point. In rural Japan, Real cheese Was not …
Feeling Warm at Christmas
2013年12月25日 • レイモンド・ナカムラ
One Christmas... My Mom sent me a turkey one Christmas. It was a frozen, smoked turkey. I invited a bunch of people to my place to eat it. I took out the middle sliding doors of my rooms, so I had a fair amount of space. The tricky thing was that the turkey was too big to fit in my microwave oven. Since it was smoked, I just had to figure out how to defrost it. I ended up using …
The New Digs
2013年11月20日 • レイモンド・ナカムラ
Before me, a foreign couple with a young son lived in the house. Evidently, they let the boy trash the place. The marine station replaced the straw mat flooring and the sliding doors, but left the holes in the plaster walls for me to fix. I tried a wire mesh and smooth plaster combination, but as the plaster hardened, the wire popped out. I tried another kind of plaster with fibres in it that worked well. I covered the flesh-toned …
