Evangelia Papoutsaki MA Leeds, PhD Cardiff, MRSNZ

I found myself locked out of my apartment the morning after I arrived in Tokyo to take up a lecturing position at a local university. There was nobody around. Just as I was about to sit on my door step to contemplate on my new life in Tokyo, a woman appeared coming out of an apartment three or four doors down the open ground corridor. She walked towards me answering to my call in fluent English, much to my relief. A young, taller than the average, Japanese woman, with very s