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Yokohama Mama - Japan, April 2019

April 27th 2019
Yokohama Mama – Japan, April 2019 The city’s name literally means “horizontal beach”, but I have never seen a vertical one and don’t know anyone else who has either. That being said, the explanation makes a little more sense…. its current location was once surrounded by a gulf, divided by a sandbar from the open ocean. This sandbar was the original site of Yokohama, and since the s ... 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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