Today, my calender pops up: Trip to Yakushima and visiting Mankichi und Keita Watanabe. But instead of listening to the Mejiros at the side of the tea gardens of the Watanabe family on the breathtakingly beautiful island of Yakushima, I hear blackbirds, sparrows and wood pigeons, outside the open window in the backyard of our office in Frankfurt. For this year, we had planned to spend a little bit longer on Yakushima, after our visits in the last two years […]
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