Kawabata Yasunari’s novel Yukiguni (Snow Country) opens with one of the best-known sentences in Japanese literature: Kokkyō no nagai tonneru o nukeru to yukiguni de atta. Word for word, it says: “Passing through the long tunnel at the border, it was the snow country.” The sentence does not say who or what passes through the tunnel.
The English translation by Edward Seidensticker has to supply a subject: “The train came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.” The novel first appeared in the magazine Bungei Shunjū in January 1935, before it even had its title.