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Common way of mitigating the directness of the request, but I found this strategy realised in English for the first time in Japan.

Met one of my friends who graduated from uni this spring and now does the postgraduate studies at a university in Tokyo for the first time in nearly three months. I was really glad to know she's doing well. I came across this sign in a cafe where we stayed for a couple of hours having a catch up with each other.