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Originally Posted by MMM
If your company is Japanese, it won't smell like a "barn" to them. That is the smell of a 和室. Unless cows are using your apartment as a bathroom... then it might smell like a farm.
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Just because something is the way it is doesn't mean you must automatically like it. Growing up in a poorer family I take pride in all that I've accomplished, and one of those things is having a decent home, as I wasn't always afforded that. Even if the Japanese would be used to the smell themselves, I'm sure it wouldn't bother them if they walked into a tatami room that had a more pleasant smell, or none at all. I associate the smell with uncleanliness, whether anyone, Japanese or not agrees with that.