Six years I’ve been in Japan. This last Wednesday was my sixth Japaniversary. Rather than reflect on the occasion in my usual way, though, I thought I’d explore that time through numbers.
Some of the following figures are exact. Some are approximate. A few are facetious. I’ll leave it to you to consider which figures fall into which category.
Six years in Japan, 2015-03-31 through 2021-03-31, described through various figures, presented here in no particular order whatsoever.
- Days since I moved to Japan: 2,194
- Days I’ve regretted it: 0
- Portion of my life now spent living in Japan: 15.3%
- Small crushes, largely on attractive strangers: 172,956
- First dates: 55
- First dates in just the summer of 2016: 36
- Friends gained from attempted dates via dating apps: 3
- Dates with known celebrities: 1
- Broken hearts received: 3
- Broken hearts given: 1
- People I went out with more than 3 times: 4
- Engagement rings purchased: 1
- Proposals accepted: 1
- Trips to the beach at Tsujido: 9
- Calories consumed at GoGo Curry: 72,000
- Steps taken: 32,400,000
- Approx distance: 20,380km (12,634 mi)
- Canvas sneakers worn out over that distance: 19 pair
- Hours spent teaching: 8,700
- Amount spent on wine by VIP client while out to dinners together: ¥7,500,000
- Bikelore cycling events attended: 14
- Days of work missed due to illness: 3
- Rolls of film shot: 460
- Cumulative kilometers travelled on trains while commuting: 54,000km (33,480 mi)
- Times around the Earth that equals: 1.35x
- Number of cricket bats it would take, lined up end-to-end, to equal that distance: 62,528,949
- Cumulative time spent commuting: 4 months, 28.5 days
- Apartments occupied: 2
- February 29ths: 2
- Hamsters cared for: 2
- Cats adopted: 1
- Times the above cat has pooped on the floor because he has anxiety: 280
- Neighborhood cats befriended: 100
- Cameras, knives, etc purchased at flea markets or junk shops and restored: 5
- Onigiri eaten: 625
- Photographs taken: 85,000
- Kanji learned: 600
- Notebooks filled: 110
- Coins thrown into the box at various shrines: 460
- Lists like this made so far: 1
- Times I’ve forgotten to send a new post as a newsletter: 1