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INCENTIVE DESTINATION JAPAN is a nice, informative site if you’re looking for tourism info on this country, but man, I wish they’d left the tired old middle-school-English-textbook junk out of it. Needs a rewrite:
DRAFT:
Japan is one of a small number of countries that have four distinctive seasons. Throughout history, the Japanese have learned to find beauty in seasonal changes and nurtured a culture of incorporating seasonal elements into daily life.
EDITED:
Japan is one of a vast number of countries located from subtropical to subarctic latitudes that have four seasons, and four words to describe them. We ignore the rainy season and the typhoon season and the Chinese yellow dust season and all weather above 2,000 meters’ altitude, by the way. We have imported a poetic sensibility from China that forces us to cram all cultural artifacts into one of those four rigidly defined categories. We confuse this with enjoyment of a unique situation. Thank you for your understanding in this matter. P.S. Don’t listen to those blasted Koreans when they tell you the exact same thing about their so-called four seasons. Pretenders.
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