JAPANESE TOURISTS (October 15, 2008)
As I am walking through one of Zagreb’s busy squares, I chance upon a Japanese couple. They are tourists, and they are all eyes. In their late fifties or early sixties, they look me over from head to foot. “Oh,” I feel like stopping them in their tracks, “I am here on a visit, just like you!” Appalled by being identified with the city of my birth, I restrain myself with all my might. If only I were Japanese, too!