Close up of Sadako

Sadako was about 10 when the bomb exploded in Hiroshima. She seemed healthy but then contracted leukemia a couple years later. She had heard that if you built 10000 paper cranes, your wish would be granted, so she tried to make them while ill. Now kids everywhere make these and put them in them in a children's memorial in the peace park.

Pain, Beauty, and Dirty Old Men on Bicycles

September 1st 2006
A NOTE: if you want to receive automatic notifications everytime I update this blog, either send me your email address (either by directly emailing me or by sending me a message on this blog) or you can do it yourself by clicking the subscribe button when you enter the blogs main page. Well this is a long entry. If you're short on time, skip down to the part about matsuyama (dirty old man on bi ... 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

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