Matny

If you could choose to see something one more time what would it be?

Hey! I went last summer to do the exact same thing (getting in touch with my roots). I am half and a yonsei (forth generation outside Japan) but I learned some Japanese in university beforehand. It would be good to learn a few sentences to help you along like where you're from and which parent is Japanese but the topic didn't come up too much. Surprisingly while I get asked often about looking half Asian at home I rarely got the question when travelling western Japan.

It's so worth it though and a lot of my life began to make sense as I saw traditions I thought were just weird family quirks personified in a culture!