Saturday, April 5, 2014

Japanese Sports Radio

Listening to sports radio in Japanese doesn't make it any more incomprehensible than it is in English.  There is something strangely comforting about this.  The sound of a ball hitting a bat, the cheering crowd, the excitement in the announcer's voice.  These are all things I can understand in any language.  From a distance, all things are equal.  We win, we lose.  The feeling of an experience.

But I would still like to get closer here.  I would like to be a shade closer to understanding, to belonging, if ever that could be possible.  I wonder what path leads to that place.


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