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“Mild” Adultery at the Conbini (Japanese Convenience Store)

How a convenience store coffee taught me more about Japan than ascetic yamabushi training in the mountains ever did.

Aug 15, 2025
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“Mild” Adultery at the Conbini (Japanese Convenience Store)

Jam. Bread. Coffee. Enjoyable breakfast.

I’ve lived in Japan for 15 years.
I can purify you before entering the mountains, hike said mountains in full yamabushi gear, and still have enough energy to recite a seven-and-a-half-minute shinto prayer word for word.

But on Tuesday morning, I was defeated…

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