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The line up to get into the "combini" (convenience store). There must have been about 10,000 people packed into the port to watch the fireworks and everyone had to wait in line for everything! The signs being held by the store clerks ask people not to buy any instant soups because the store has run out of hot water.

Feeling Genki

August 21st 2006
The last time I checked my e-mail was Thursday and although I didn't write a blog entry for that date, I did e-mail many of you. My week to that point had been pretty positive with only a slight crisis on Tuesday morning as I searched in vain for a bus that would take me to the office in Iwagawa (most of the buses had been halted for Obon - a Japanese summer holiday used to honour their dead rela ... 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

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