Tanabata Festival6

Canadian Asses, Japanese Pants

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August 6th 2006
The road to getting settled is coming along nicely for me in Hekinan, Japan. More and more, I'm starting to feel at home. I've finally found and labelled a map of the city. You'd think such a task should be simple, but alas it was not. First finding a decent map and then figuring out where I am and where everything else is when all the writing is in Japanese was actually much more difficult th ... read more

Asia » Japan » Aichi

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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