Sometimes I would meet people that I had known in Japan, and once or twice accompanied them to a Japanese restaurant, where a good Japanese meal could be eaten at a lower price than in Kobe. The bath problem I found nther difficult. With foreign style baths in the hostel it was only possible to get a bath once in five or six days and then far from hot and plentiful like the Japanese bath.
Once or twice I caught glimpses of the Royal family, whom the people in London love. When the Prince of Wales returned from his trip to Japan, I happened to get a very good position right in front the crowd lining the street to watch the Prince, with the King than 2nd his two brothers, go by.
Such enormous crowds and such joy and cheering~I never saw. As the Prince came by, his golden hair uncovered, and bowing to tha people on both sides, he seemed for a moment to look straight at Hampton Court Palace there are both the old palaces of kings and fresh living gardens of a brightness and beauty that I did not know could exist under cold skies.
The longer I lived in London the better I understood these things and the more I loved them. But everything was not so pleasant. There was a great deal of poverty. Wages are higher in England than in Japan, and prices seem to be about the same. Some things are cheaper and other things dearer. But the poor, perhaps because they were white people, whom I had always seen comfortably. situated, seemed to me more wretched and unfortunate than the poor in Japan.
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