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There is a big pot in front of the temple for burning insense. It is always smoking 24/7. Supposedly if you waft the smoke from this pot in the direction of something you want to be better, it will be so. For example, most people fan it in the direction of their head to make them smarter. But my knee was killing me at the time, so I fanned it on to my knee. For some reason I got a lot of strange looks because of this.

Stepping Outside Myself in Tokyo

December 4th 2006
If you recall, one of my junior high school students won the regional (Ehime Prefecture) English speech competition a couple of months ago. This means that she was able to go to the national speech competition in Tokyo last week. Actually, the full name of the competition was, “His Imperial Highness Prince Takamado Trophy 58th All Japan Inter-Middle School English Oratorical Contest.” The titl ... 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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