Recently in Japan Category

I am now in Tokyo on business, and today is the ninth day of the stay.
Probably because this is the first time for me to visit the metropolitan city in last three years, I feel a bit uncomfortable in this highly systemized urban space though I used to live here for many years. 

I took the last train yesterday, which was full of drunk or tired-looking businessmen, but they were very quiet.
It seemed to me that everybody wanted to be out-of-touch each other psychologically as well as physically and tried to lose humanity as much as possible.
At the Ochanomizu station, most of them were to change trains.
What surprised me there was that, no sooner did the doors of the train open at the station than the transfer passengers rushed into the next train waiting on the other side of the platform to get a seat.
They were drunk, they were tired, but they ran as if they did so by instinct, and again quietly.
This is an aspect of a Tokyo life.

Then, last night, I had a dream of missing the last train.
I ran and ran to catch the train, but I never reached the station.
My way ahead was just in the darkness.

When I woke up, I felt pain in the back.
I don't know what happend, but I remember I was not quiet either in the dream or after awaking. 

Since July this year, I teach English and math privately to a junior high school student three times a week.
It is because he and his mother asked me to be a home teacher in order to pass high school entrance examinations early next year.
Although I am not professional in teaching and have other works, I accepted the offer as I had taught him briefly in the summer vacation two years ago and had a good impression of him then.