She has responded and we correspond daily. Nothing romantic though, unfortunately. I think she kind of figured that it would be impossible, so she isn't going to hurt herself by believing that we are anything more than friends.

Despite being a romantic, I too know that these types of distance relationships are nearly impossible. So I'm going to accept that her friendship is the most important thing to me.

I did find her blog, which is entirely in Japanese, and I read it. I found out that she really respected me and all her past mentions of me were very good. Damn, why didn't I realize sooner!?