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The Sh*t is Bananas B-A-N-A-N-A-S

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April 23rd 2006
Big day... Great day!! This morning we headed off to Harajuku to check out the freaky girls. We went to Machida, then caught a transfer into Shinjuku (the busiest station in Japan - every workday 3 million people pass through it!). We discovered that I had been an idiot and put a cleaning tape into the Video camera, and had not brought any spares with us, so we had to find an electornics ... read more

Asia » Japan » Tokyo » Harajuku

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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