10 years in Tokyo, a thank you and a look back ◎ 東京へ来て１０年が立つ頃に伝いたい気持ち

I stood still in the middle of Shibuya scramble crossing one spring day when I was 18 years old, the crowd swarming around me in all directions like koi in a pond. J-pop played on the jumbo screen, it was a mix of words I could and couldn't discern. It felt energetic...like a vortex, some kind of gravitational pull into an unknown planet in the center of some dream-like universe. I have always bee