In the 70s, it must have been fairly uncommon for a lot of Japanese people to see a Westerner. But they were still overwhelmingly nice to me. Sometimes I made them feel uncomfortable. They did not have to deal with the foreigner kind of thing. Now that's not so much the case. You just person A and he or she is person B - there's less of that sense of us and them which was more there.

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