Only in my heart!!
I've become a huge Japanophile over the last few years though I've never been, and seeing your location I envy you your recent experience of Tanabata and your upcoming probable celebration of Bon.
Last night I tried to make mapo dofu ("Chinese-style spicy tofy with pork" according to
Let's Cook Japanese Food! written by an American lady who married into a Japanese family), but the ground pork had gone slightly off so I had to throw it out
, but since I'd gotten all the ingredients ready (even in their individual little bowls like the recipe said
), I manfully struggled through with, er,
cut-up hot dogs 
and it actually came out OK.
Which makes this arguably the first time anyone's mixed hot dogs and tofu... (Well, OK, probably not really. And apparently they like them in Japan too since I keep seeing them cut to look like octopi in various anime series, which is harder to do than it looks.)
Okinawa is pretty cool too! One of my favorite artists seems to like Okinawa a lot as well.
And now, waking up ludicrously late even for a Sunday, off to watch
Kamen Rider Den-O and drink
kohii.
(I wonder, can you read Chit Chat? We could start a general Japan/Asia thread there...)
David
To-ki-o, Dis-ney-sea, it's a world of won-der for you and me...