Ozaki-san,

I had no idea you’d write back about names, and I’m truly happy you did. So now to your name, Sekaikan Ozaki. The characters for “Sekaikan” (“world-view”) bring to mind something on a grand scale, although a world-view is first and foremost a viewpoint that each person constructs by themselves. When I heard you were writing your piece on your mobile, I thought it was so you to do that. Or maybe I felt slightly envious: no PC or writing paper for you, huh! I can just see you, curled up snug and small in your futon, writing. My impression is of you with your small palms and slender body, facing a big world (which reminds me, I hear you’ve been training at the gym recently).

It’ll soon be Christmas, and then yearend before we know it. Do you like this time of year? I dislike the atmosphere from Christmas up until the end of the year. The month of December is certainly a busy one, but the whole town is in a rush, or more to the point is being rushed. It always makes me feel sad. Maybe it’s because the more that other people have fun and party, the more difficult it is for me as I can’t keep up. I basically don’t like things to be out of the ordinary. Don’t you get tired of every day being different when you do live shows and things like that?

And what about the illuminations everywhere in Tokyo? It makes you wonder about the electricity bill. When I lived at home, it was so novel for houses to be lit up that my parents and I used to go by car just to see them. But in fact you could even see lightning from three kilometers away, as there was nothing to block it out. The brightness of lightning for me symbolizes Tokyo. Sometimes though, I do get nostalgic for the total darkness of the countryside.