Distraught with his Americanized life, Nagataka Sato breaks free from his oppressive mother’s idealized future for him and travels to Japan.
Technology is such a giant part of the world today that it’s harder for me to remember when the Internet was only a new, emerging thing. I can, however, remember my time as an eight year old when my family had walked into the local Electronics Boutique, about twenty minutes from our home in Oil City, Pennsylvania—a small place with charm—to ask about a computer with a bigger internal memory and some educational games for me.
My dad, concerned for my education, wanted to make sure my b. . .