12.31.2010 - 01.01.2011 New Years day and after Christmas jumble at home in Osaka
January 7th 2011 Today was getting ready for Bastu game or “gaki-no-tsukai” New Years day and ordering pizza for dinner. For those of you who may not know what Batsu game type it into YouTube and check out some of the links, basically it a game that has a group of contestants play a specific type of character like Spy, students, or a nurse and throughout the day they are made to laugh. When a person laughs the
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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 
