Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
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Setsunai is usually translated as “sad,” but it is better described as a feeling of sadness and loneliness so powerful that it feels as if your chest is constricted, as if you can’t breathe; a sadness that is physical and tangible. There is another word, too—yarusenai, which is grief or loneliness so strong that you can’t get rid of it, you can’t clear it away.
Nicholas Wang
What is "Setsunai" and "Yarusenai"?
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What’s yarusenai? It’s that one e-mail you never replied to and will never open. It’s the bad advice you gave and the phone call you should have made and everything that came out of it. It’s thinking about the friends that you suspect you might have been able to save.
Nicholas Wang
what is "Setsunai"?