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Our Climbing Buddies  
   

Our Climbing Buddies

We met these guys on the hike up and they were engineers from India who had been working for Sony Ericsson in Tokyo for the last few months. Interesting conversations about India, Tokyo, and culture in general made the hike much more enjoyable!
Above Japan's Clouds, at the Summit of Mt.Fuji

September 2nd 2006
Last Saturday night I did something that is considered unwise: I climbed Mt. Fuji for the second time. There is a Japanese saying which states, "A wise person will climb Mt. Fuji once, but only a fool will climb it twice." Well, I guess I am a fool because at 7am on Saturday morning I boarded a bus with 42 other Hiroshima prefecture English teachers and embarked on the 11-hour bus ride to S ... read more
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Japanese Flag 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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