{"id":27448,"date":"2016-11-21T07:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T06:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avo-magazine.nl\/?p=27448"},"modified":"2018-04-29T22:26:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T20:26:02","slug":"editors-letter-go-back-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/2016\/11\/editors-letter-go-back-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Editor’s Letter: Why I have to go back to Japan!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this Japan-loving community, there are a lot of people with dreams of going to Japan. Everyone has a different reason why they’d like to go to the Land of the Rising Sun. I, for example, had a few missions: meeting people, visit concerts of bands of which most haven’t been in Europe and discover the country. I can tell you, all three missions have succeeded! And now I know: I have to go back to Japan! Because I want to see more of Japan, visit a lot more concerts and meet even more people!<\/p>\n

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I have seen Mount Fuji several times during my first vacation in Japan. The first time was when I was travelling with the shinkansen from Tokyo to Shizuoka, to meet a friend. I was watching out of the window and saw it emerge. I instantly wanted to take a picture of it, because it was the first time I saw it. My Japanese friend even told me I was very lucky to see it, because especially in this time of year (June) it’s more difficult to see Mount Fuji. Once I arrived in Shizuoka I could have a good look at it again. I really felt lucky at that moment, because after all those years I was finally in Japan!<\/p>\n

The last time I saw Mount Fuji was on the day I departed from Japan again. I had a very good feeling about the contents of my trip: I have been able to do a lot of things, unfortunately not everything. But I was convinced I would return to make up for my missed opportunities. I was fully charged and was sure that I would take everything with both hands to start working on several projects.<\/p>\n

Nothing was less true. Because my dream finally came true I felt a little lost in The Netherlands. I suddenly didn’t seem to have a purpose and started to long back to Japan. My Japanese friends made it even harder by saying that they really missed me and wanted to see me again. But I have to say that it’s a good feeling that people miss you and really want to see you again! Some of my Japanese friends I only saw in Japan for the first time, while I knew them through the sometimes quite beautiful internet for years.<\/p>\n

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But then I remembered the last time I saw Mount Fuji.I was sitting on the plane next to a rather intimate couple. I picked a spot rather quickly at Haneda airport, the window. And that was a good choice. Once the plane came out above the clouds after liftoff I saw the top of Mount Fuji. It was a touching image. It was almost like Mount Fuji told me \u201cFran, don’t go!\u201d or maybe \u201cFran, see you soon. Come back to Japan!\u201d And that’s something I certainly want to do!<\/p>\n

It’s a bit crazy to think a mountain can communicate to you, but the last meeting with Mount Fuji -while I was flying out of Japan- definitely had a value to me. It’s hard work, but I have to go back to Japan. I have to get better at the Japanese language, be bolder and have more confidence in myself! I am Francisca Hagen and I will be back in Japan soon.<\/p>\n

That is my mission, and it will become reality!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this Japan-loving community, there are a lot of people with dreams of going to Japan. Everyone has a different reason why they’d like to go to the Land of the Rising Sun. I, for example, had a few missions: meeting people, visit concerts of bands of which most haven’t been in Europe and discover […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"0","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"","post_date_format_custom":"","show_post_category":"1","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}]},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"3064"},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3064],"tags":[3035,4838,3546],"class_list":["post-27448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avo-magazine-news","tag-2016-en","tag-editors-letter-en","tag-japan-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27448"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29153,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27448\/revisions\/29153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avo-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}