Kotaro 12 (Japanese Edition)
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To hit home runs in high school over the three years, that's unheard of. This is the third year in a row the Fighters have held a spring camp in Arizona, but their first at Salt River Fields.
Kotaro Sawaki: Writer on the road of life | The Japan Times
I was there for an intrasquad game Monday, but didn't get to see this legendary slugger swing the bat. He's working his way back from an injured right thumb he's close to being back at full strength , so for now it's just defensive work and soft toss in a cage.
It's not uncommon for high school baseball hitters in Japan to be asked to change their swings or their approach at the plate when they become professionals. He also shared valuable insights on intercultural relationships in general, and cast light on his creative process and the challenges of nonfiction writing.
Why did you do that? Of course, elementary, junior high and high schools are some of them, but there are others — such as bars. The kashihonya rental bookstores in my neighborhood were another school for me. Then there was traveling. You can study at a desk, but you can also say the world is your textbook. Then, I just wanted to leave, because I was worried that, if I continued writing, I would go on doing that without any problem for another 10 or 20 years.
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But of course I was only 26, and I thought that 10 or 20 years seemed like forever. However, after I came back, I started writing again. The year I traveled was thrilling. I learned lots of things, including such trivial lessons as how to take a bus in far-flung corners of the world, how to buy a ticket and how to deal with such different people.
That, itself, was very thrilling, and I had a lot of fun. How did you keep your memories so fresh and your motivation to write about it for so long? For me, the year when I traveled enormously impacted my life. I always knew I would write about it sometime, so even if it had taken me until I passed 60, I would have created something out of it — though the final product might have been completely different.
Kotaro Sawaki: Writer on the road of life
In the book, you talk about meeting penniless hippy-type travelers who holed up for ages in dirt-cheap dormitory rooms in cheap hotels, and how they looked so hollow and devoid of curiosity about anything — and even lacked the energy to get out of bed. Do you think traveling too long makes people lose interest in life? These situations — where travelers have their curiosity wiped out — are commonplace.
When you are traveling, you feel as if you are dangling in the air; you are neither responsible for the country of your origin, nor the country you are in. Your feet are not firmly on any ground, and yet you can continue living like that with little money. However, you have to move on at some point, or you will sink deeper and deeper.
Then, if you move, your worn-out, closed mind will be exposed to the wind that comes with the move, and it will crack open your curiosity again.
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Your curiosity, though, may never recover to the same level as when you started traveling. I think they need external inputs. I met a lot of these young, tired travelers, both Japanese and Western, and some were no longer sure about the purpose of their trips. If people could travel to various places for a few months and come back home, they would be better off. When you keep traveling for two or three years, striking a balance between moving and not moving becomes difficult, and the staying portions gets longer as you lose energy. Comfortable and cheap places to stay in like Bali attract a fair number of people.
In the past, Kabul was where the West and the East merged, and because it was a place where drugs were easily available, it was perfect for people looking for a rest. Backpacking has become very popular among Japanese, but most people still go on sightseeing trips only, often in group tours. What do you think about that? Recently, when I took a bus trip from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi, a couple of Western backpackers in their 60s were among the passengers.
The couple could not have been poor, but they haggled with the driver over an extremely small amount of money and argued over where they would be seated. Maybe they were especially bad, but I guessed they had traveled like that for a long time. Then I saw a busload of Japanese tourists who mostly looked like they were also in their 60s. They were from Osaka, from a local shotengai shopping arcade or something, and they looked like they were having such a good time. Sure, they had the usual bus guide and an interpreter and they were walking in droves. My way is not to make any plans in advance and not to carry a guide book — but just to go somewhere and travel from there.
A couple of years ago I went to China for the first time, for around days. I had saved my China trip for a long time, until the visa regulations were eased. Until then, tourists could only stay for around two weeks. That was a backpacking trip also, but the only difference from the trip I took when I was 26 was that I had a credit card.
In many ways, I had access to an infinite amount of money.