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Visit to Hiraizumi

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January 11th 2016
Hiraizumi We took the Tohoku Main line from Ichinoseki to Hiraizumi. There were quite a few passengers on that line. I went to Tohoku for the school excursion during my junior high school period. My father also remembered going to Tohoku with his students in line with the extension of the Shikansen’s service to Tohoku at the beginning of the 1980s. I remembered visiting Hiraizumi an ... 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