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Kamakura

June 9th 2007
After a busy business week in Tokyo, my German colleagues, Andreas Luengen, Volkmar Tietz and I decided to spend Saturday in the town of Kamakura. Neither Andreas nor Volkmar had ever been in Japan before, so I considered it my responsibility to show them around…. For me, it was probably the third or fourth visit to Kamakura, but this time, I wanted to see any places or have any experiences tha ... 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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