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· The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Miri, Yu. Tokyo Ueno Station. New York: Riverhead Books, 2020.

· The narrator, Kazu, hears a familiar sound he cannot place.

· Kazu says that life is not “like a story in a book...there may be an ending, but there is no end” (1).

· Kazu is dead and suggests that he “did not live with intent” and that the only thing he left on earth is “a sense of tiredness” (2).

· Kazu watches people at the Ueno Station.

· Kazu describes himself as not particularly attractive, lacking confidence, and having bad luck.

· Kazu refers to hearing “that sound again...like it’s blood coursing” (3) and says that is all he used to hear, “like there was a hive in my head and hundreds of bees were trying to fly out all at once” (3).

· Kazu references an area just outside...

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