Rebecca Saunders, CNN • Updated 11th July 2021
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Ena, Japan (CNN) Have you seen Mr. Orange Farmer? asked my neighbor, in Japanese.
She was standing at my front door, huddled under a small umbrella in the rain on a Wednesday afternoon. I was in the middle of eating my lunch.
I hadn t seen him.
She looked around as if he might appear, then left to rejoin a group of people. They continued up the mountain in search of the farmer, who they eventually located.
Though the encounter was brief, this was the moment I realized that I was in a very remote community, and had somehow become a small part of it.