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Hiroshima and Miyajima

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November 20th 2007
My second recent excursion was to a town which needs no introduction - Hiroshima. Many other people have written about this city, and I don’t really feel that I could do a better job describing it. The museum was a combination of the horrifying and the enlightening, but the most noticeable characteristic is that information was reported in a fair, unilateral way. Some pieces of the collection ... read more

Asia » Japan » Hiroshima

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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