Sensei Diaries #41: Noboru

July 16, 2024

This will surely feel like a bit of emotional whiplash from last week’s bit of satire, but on Thursday this week it will have been one year since I put my cat, Noboru, to sleep, saying farewell to a companion of 14 years. Within the first month after I arrived in Japan in 2009, a new friend mentioned to me that one of his friends’ cat had just given bi…