What a week in a Japanese ‘America Town’ taught me about myself

On a current journey to Japan, I consistently located myself in person withMichael Jordan That’s to claim, a replica of him.

Cartoon representations of Jordan, in complete 1990s Chicago Bulls regalia, were pasted onto a number of structures in Amerikamura– “America village,” the fashionable area in main Osaka where I remained fora week A local facility of streetwear and also young people counterculture for years, Amerikamura resembles if a Midwestern Goodwill and also Spencer’s Gifts had a massive, disorderly infant, fed by a relatively countless supply of imported Green Bay Packers sweatshirts, 1980s March of Dimes fundraising event t shirts, Elk’s Lodge- branded equipment and also tie-dye clothing including blunt-smoking aliens and alsoBart Simpson A large fiberglass clown head putting on an Uncle Sam hat, put up on a shop, looked out on the mainly Japanese group of revelers that abounded the roads every evening. If you were …