"please remember always, the pain of parting is nothing compare to the joy of meet again"
December 16th 2007 Melissa, A fellow TESL student from Caledon near Toronto has been living in Osaka for a few months with her boyfriend Mike. She was going to be visiting Tokyo for a few days so she stayed with the two of us and we crammed a Tokyo sightseeing tour into a Saturday and Sunday. We met her at Ueno and went to the National Museum after walking around Ueno park and checking out some of the sights. Then w
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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 
