Koji and Friend

Odaiba Onsen and Miraikan

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September 24th 2008
Day off for everyone today...national holiday celebrating the equinox. The Japanese have lots of national holidays. I think there are about 5 random days off at Waseda. Miraikan is the "Future Museum" The whole family went. Got to see all kinds of fancy Japanese robots and the most bizarre skyline ever. Most of it was in Japanese so I got to practice a ton of reading. We ate lunch over th ... read more

Asia » Japan

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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