Word: overlit
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...Even now, I often feel, in the Land of the Rising Sun, as if I'm living in some overlit amusement arcade, in which every other car is called "Sunny" and even the supermarkets style themselves "Sun Plazas." In 1987, when I first arrived in Japan, an American teacher of English in Kyoto told me that when she asked her students to choose an adjective with which to describe themselves, she had to ban the use of the word "cheerful," or else every girl in class would select it. Accentuating the positive is an article of faith here...