As self-confessed slave to nostalgia, I must admit that I waste a lot of time feeling sad about things that have nothing to do with me. Take the recent transformation at Golden Gai in Shinjuku. Once a drinking area for salarymen, now a backpacker hotspot packed with Europeans and Australians on their year out, with…

(Please read the story first) First of all, thank you for subscribing, and thank you for reading. I hope you enjoyed the story.   Author’s notes are not something I think I’ll regularly do, but for Seaside it was quite important to me because of something a friend said just after we’d started workshopping each other’s…