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Town of History  
   

Town of History

A memorial sits behind the old, tin-roofed houses along the Old Temple Road.
Sakura Season, the Onomichi Trip, and the Return Home

April 7th 2014
<strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sakura Season, the Onomichi Trip, and the Return Home Well, I returned from Japan on Tuesday, April 1, and have been meaning to finish up the blog with one last post. It’s a bit late, but here it is now. Towards the end of my last week in Japan, the cherry blossoms came out, and so I was able to do some flower viewing. The pink ume blos ... 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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