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Sunshine City Aquarium

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July 5th 2013
To celebrate the 4th of July - or, not really, but it just so happened that the friend I was going with is military and had the 4th off and it fell on MY day off of Thursday - I went to the Sunshine City aquarium in Ikebukuro! It was really fun, and it was exciting to go back to a part of the city that I hadn't been to since I arrived in Japan a year ago. We actually had a little trouble fi ... 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