It    I visited Prioime.

        I took an Amtrak train from ason D.d on my o Ne off train at Prion Jun and took a taxi and    to ty. 1984 ial ele year bet; by Bruce Springsteen, and Mico getting burned on t sounds like just a feting older)

        to Prion on Uy t Fitzgerald graduated from and I ed to see its campus myself. I ing except t. My train stopped at Prion and probably, I t, I o drop in ty. After rambling on campus, looking at ten manuscript in a special room at toaying one nig a sel "Prion Motor Lodge," I jumped on trak again and    to Neill remember t tooral impression. It ion and feos and squirrels around t time I visited, the fields were replaced by a big shopping mall.)

        Anotaxi I took at Prion Jun. Nos of taxis are ing in front of tation, but axi. ttle traiion and ty    of service t ton Jun station is located all alone in vat fields, and you could find no    off at tation ies, a black man around ty, me and my panion. All    in front of tation and    for a taxi.

        It e a long time before a taxi came up. e arted to    ourselves axi appeared. Feeling relieved, all four of us pooled taxi. took a seat beside t of us occupied t. taxi-driver axi started    after a o me deliberately took    of a suitcase, and after s up and doarted to spray on    uand    any of us could .    on spraying and finally to t out, opeed furiously to t;You get out ; At first, ed, but maybe intimidated by toug out case, sest.    oned s. turo    and tio drive, and carried to tohing had happened.

        A little later, to us as if to spit out t "e    ; "After inviting toics began to floo t oo several years?

        Seven years later, I revisited Prion. time I o stay at ty for a long period. ting o t t "Id like to get relaxed and e novels in a quiet place    any disturbance." tly met a persoed to Prion Uy and made an actual plan foing abroad. o me "Noon Uy is inviting you. Your residential place    January." I like ty.

        It arted pag and preparing for our stay in t t time o Japan, arting again to stay abroad    exactly notig     ic, but I didnt    to lose to live in Prion anyway.

        t e. In a taxi ell us t ttacked Bag    a good sign for us. e couldnt feel at ease to live in America    ry, even if try    all t to go to t,     feel fortable in triotid macy. Once I saudent demonstration on ton    read "t; I remembered "ti-est," but ;pro-; demonstration. I ention to interfere in somebody elses affairs, but I took t to    t times er udent at Rutgers Uy(it is a more average uy tudent said "It is because of Prion, Mr. Murakami. e i-est all rig; Later in Prion rouble s attacked anti-udents and snatchem.

        But any o a successful end, and ed feeling at ease, t turbulence occurred; t try before tmosped partly by triotism uplifted folloly because Ameris    for tration toing dull ey in try. I dont knoed in Japan, but I felt it ratougo live actually in t kind of social ambiance. Besides a sense of unfortableness, ten    out except sen stayed at     only t all t somete time, a certain Japanese politi (you knoi hinking and made me so furious.

        In one of ted to dinner by an Ameri acquaintanine, and at table, a    it slip and called me "You Jap...." in tion. t made all t deadly silent as if all of ter poured on t turned gly pale. t t could ever    an Ameri diable. tion dido notice t    t at all. Later t called me aside and made an excuse by saying t "ention, so please five ed by t against Japan in tary education ill remaiipato you all." I replied t "I got it, so please dont ; Actually I didnt care about it, but still no his was a rare experience.

        its, my first year eo me. It er t    Los A t myself up indoors and I ing a long novel. I seldom    any anyter undergoing mysterious ts and turns, t into t novel (or a rat long novel) "Kokkyou no minami, taiyo no nis; and t;Nejimakidori C;

        Folloensive year and a s break, my e ser. Successfully I came to publistle magazine "Book" from Kodansy-one or t paper, and t essay I    wing a series of essays for one and half years,

        I never felt eacoo long. As is often ters, I am ratype of er erializing my t into    it in a visual    often . In t sense, ing as many as ty-one or t one-year stay in America, various t be interpreted into ion.

        sequently taxi drivers ay in 1984, implied in ; y in t several years?", migly rigly not. In t t Prion is still a peaceful aiful to raffic jams iic of toy,    try from inside, I feel keenly t it is a serious task to keep er anam ar, try    t necessarily mean t tizens of try became o be even more at a loss in t of serious problems ten years ago. Botion and its people, I to meet backs or defeats in turning point. But if asked e and pory does, my ansive. In tion t tcableness in ion of America caused by tinct idea about ableness of Japan    any clear-cut belief t ion. inctiveness and ambiguity, t feel o co lead in future..

        riting essays for tunity to tters. But no clusive ans any facet tably, t    "tant uanding of America." As an autified if t;a " to your uanding of tates.

        December, 1993

        In Boston
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