What does "home" mean to you at this stage in your life? Every person has a different definition of "home". I think that home is the place you feel safe and have people you love around you. It doesn't necessarily have to be the place where you were born. I also feel that I am in a process of searching for that place. Even though I have spent 12 years of my life in Japan and feel secure here, I don't really feel that my home is here. But at the same time, I no longer think of my hometown as my home either.