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Shosa mountain

Himeji castle and an engineering lesson

September 10th 2005
Yesterday I woke up and joined my new friends in the common room again (Kyle and the Swiss guy- Kasper), and also an American guy who has been living in Japan for 18 years, so as you can imagine his Japanese is fantastic. And he also speaks heaps of other languages too, he speaks Japanese, Russian, and Spanish (oh, and English naturally) fluently, and he also speaks German, Chinese, Malaysian I th ... read more
Asia » Japan » Hyogo » Himeji

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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