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It’s Monday morning.

His home is in the countryside, about an hour and a half drive from the city.

Not fully dark yet.

On the highway, leaving Tokyo and heading north.

At around nine am, waking up, I hear voices from the window on the southeast side: scaffold tubes clanging against each other, large machines running, workers talking, indicating, commanding, joking, laughing — they are building a new house for someone.