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Mensoure Zamami!

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January 25th 2008
So, when the weather finally became good enough to get a ferry ticket off of the main island of Okinawa, Erin (a fellow English teacher in Japan whom I met at the hostel) and I took off for Zamami Island. Zamami is a very small island about an hour-and-a-half ferry ride southwest of Okinawa's main island. The water was still turbulent and I got seasick pretty quickly. However, things started looki ... 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