Then we went on a trip around exquisite coastal scenery, unbelievably beautiful, to Tokyo, which I have to say, is a monstrous city in all senses of the word. It is huge, many millions of people, has excellent services, sometimes half a dozen independent railway lines running parallel with each other. There are crowds of people – and this gets back to the privacy and so forth – amazingly in all this welter of humanity, there are oceans or little islets of calm in parks and gardens. Certainly in the private homes the hustle and bustle of the place drops away and you’re into quite another world.

And then some Japanese homes, in fact their sense of identity is such, that they will have a Western room and a Japanese room. And they can eat Japanese and have Japanese customs, or they can have a Western room with Western customs, which is not only, of course, the food that they eat, but the instruments that they would be playing, the role of the men and the women in the house and so forth. It’s a fascinating country to visit.