When I was in Shanghai, I was disoriented by the fact that as sunset approached, everything would be getting darker, but then start brightening against as the lights came on. Night-with-lights was brighter than the last dregs of day without them. We were there during the National Day Golden Week, and it was hazy, so it might have been the brightest possible time.

It was like living on a planet with two suns, where the first sun goes down while the second sun is rising, and the second one finally sets after midnight.

Did you get much of the two-suns feeling in Tokyo or Singapore?