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wobbly ground in Nagasaki with the proper pictures!!

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May 25th 2008
I just could not part with the witty captions froｍ the last entry, so here is the first part of Kyuushuu again with proper pictures......... After a busy 24 hrs with Chihiro in her lovely MANSHON flat in Saitama prefecture, I planned to head southwards to Kyuushuu, on　Sunday morning. The trip to Nagasaki was fast! Not a patch on some other trains in the world, the Hikari shinkansen whis ... 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