Kusunoki Masashige

JR Pass

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July 23rd 2023
Hispanics sometimes say Yapan. Generally, they call Japanese people Hapon. But that’s neither here nor there, it’s simply somewhere else. At eight fifty-seven in the morning on the fourteenth of June in the year of our lord two thousand and twenty-three is when I wrote the words right in front of your very eyes. Since then a lot has happened in this journey to the Empire of the Rising Sun, but ... read more

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In 1603, a Tokugawa shogunate (military dictatorship) ushered in a long period of isolation from foreign influence in order to secure its power. For 250 years this policy enabled Japan to enjoy stability and a flowering of its indigenous culture. Fol... ... read more