Japan - One year retrospective

As I started to get ready to leave Japan, one of the things that they advised us to do, to try to prepare us for the culture shock and the sadness of leaving JET behind, was to make a few lists. Lists of things that we liked about Japan and were sorry to leave behind, and things that we were looking forward to having in the US. (Here's the old post, actually.)

So it's been about a year now, and as I watch people on my facebook and friendslist preparing to come home from Japan too, I feel like it's time to do a retrospective.

Things I miss about Japan in general, Toyama in particular.
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Things I don't miss about Japan.
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Oh Japan, I miss you still. You taught me so much about myself, about the world, about my own culture. I'm not sorry I left. I couldn't have stayed. But I still miss you.