Considering Graham, ‘Japan Girl‘ stemmed away from a chance interviewing a beneficial Japanese girl for the a subway to help you Brighton. The story in fact initiate that way, with Jack the fresh new narrator smitten by this lady: ‘Your couldn’t call this lady an effective-searching but simply one thing regarding the girl appealed in my opinion and made me personally become queer, and Goodness knows I am no womaniser…‘ (p8) He could be hitched, even though the dating moved sour; his girlfriend Hettie ‘try such as a could-fly or something, stunning to possess 1 day.‘ (p10)