50 sq meters in Tokyo, 6915 miles from home: Portugalopedia #02

Salazar was elected "the greatest Portuguese"

...maybe that's why we are so utterly alone, placed in the farthest end of Europe's ever longer tail.

“	I was born a gaijin. I grew up a gaijin. I came to Japan a gaijin. It's always been as natural as gazing out a window and appreciating the landscape yet not being one with it. I fit in Japan because I matched the role. I was a gaijin from the get go. I suspect a lot of us were. More than this, I suspect there are many Japanese who feel like gaijin too, viewing themselves as enduring extras in their long-playing epics of life. But none of this is necessarily negative——as all "true" gaijin will understand.	”
*—Thomas Dillon, "Born and raised a 'gaijin', Japan Times, December 24, 2005*

50 sq meters in Tokyo, 6915 miles from home