Haru chan and her beautiful smile!

Day Eighty Eight: Okinamiyaki and a supple pair of buttocks

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June 22nd 2008
Yay! I saw Haruka today! Haruka's one of my japanese friends from Sydney who's back in Tokyo for a few months. We met up a few weeks ago for okinamiyaki in Shinjuku, got lost in the rain for twenty minutes looking for the restaurant and ended up in an old style japanese yakitori (skewer/kebob type things) bar I'd found previously but had been to scared to go into by myself. The yakitori bar on ... 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