Tabina's Story

When I leapt into the office, everything was pitch black and I couldn’t see anything. Cold air from the air conditioner poured down on me from above. In the next moment, the office lit up brightly, and when I narrowed my eyes, I saw the president at the back of the room, looking at me and pointing to the sofa in front of me. “I’ll bring something cold to drink, so have a seat and wait,” he said, disappearing into the back room. I felt I shouldn’t sit before he returned, so I

I had heard that Asakusa was full of inbound travelers. Sure enough, once I passed through the ticket gate, I found myself surrounded on all sides by foreign tourists heading toward Kaminarimon and the Asakusa district. Climbing the stairs, I stepped into an arcade filled with a heat unimaginable for June. I decided to walk toward Sensō-ji Temple. There were still about forty minutes before my interview. Everyone walking through the arcade looked like a tourist— soon, everyo

I didn’t have a dream job. There wasn’t even a company I particularly wanted to join. Still, I had to start job hunting, so I decided to take the recruitment exam for a travel agency. My reason was simple: “I like traveling.” The major companies were surely out of reach, so I looked into several mid-sized travel agencies instead. Even the mid-sized ones were all respectable companies. Would any of them really hire someone like me? Where were my dreams and hopes in life supp