Tentative Tokyo

This week I received my Tentative Assignment (I won't find anything out for sure until two days before I leave). Ten weeks' teaching at Hosei University Tama Campus and a flat in Fuchu City, twenty-two minutes by Keio Line to Shinjuku (think Lost In Translation or Tokyo as people who've never been there imagine it all to be) and, by dint of its links to Suntory Beer and Toshiba, home of a brewery museum and two whole rugby teams. There's a kind of symmetry to it - I've lived north and east of Tokyo (south is out for reasons of the Pacific Ocean) and I've already worked three months at Hosei's Ichigaya campus. All in all, it's about as good as I could have hoped for.