Yikes

Japandemonium!!!

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September 12th 2008
Tokyo is Lewis Carrol's Technicolor wet dream. New York on LSD. If London had an illegitimate love child with Hunter S. Thompson, and that child did shrooms, it would be Tokyo. We've been some strange places in our time, but never anything like this. Tokyo is the crazy homeless man who stands on the corner screaming the world's most nonsensical gibberish at the top of his lungs, thoughts so ... read more

Asia » Japan » Tokyo

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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