HeyJaredQuiet Forte
Both loud and quiet musings by Yurina Yoshikawa, a Japanese writer living in Nashville
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The many sounds of Japan (opens the original)
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When I close my eyes and try to place myself in my home in Tokyo, I think first of the sounds. The cicadas in the summer, the chimes and announcements at train stations, the artificial “Tweet Tweet” of the crosswalk that helps pedestrians with visual impairments. Inside Muji stores, they play Irish folk music for some reason. Every convenience store has its own greeting jingle. Inside my dad’s car, the GPS, radar detector, and the Tokyo-FM radio noisily talk over each other, which oddly makes me
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