A few days after we arrived in Japan, Sarah Allen and I went to the weekly hack night put on by Asakusa.rb, a meetup group in Tokyo founded by Akira Matsuda. (She blogged about it here.) Asakusa is the neighborhood in Tokyo where we were staying. It was a fortuitous choice. The first night we were there, my friend Iku and I walked to a sento – and old-style Japanese bath. (Note: bathhouses in Japa