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Sports Day

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September 17th 2007
Sports day. Or is it? I think the correct term would be activities day, or event day as sports feature very much in a Japanese sports day. The Ikina sports day is akin to something like thin the English Primary school sports day, whereby family and community members all join and the events are not so much as to single out the elite athletes but to give everybody a chance to compete in races ... read more

Asia » Japan » Ehime

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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