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FruitsPunchoSamurai: Big city wanderings

November 8th 2011
Greetings! I hereby declare myself to be a horrible blogger in the sense that the frequency of my publications is as low as my mother's ability to sit still. And now that I've annoyed at least one reader I shall proceed to more important matters. The last few weekends I have experienced a great deal of things and learned some lessons. One of these is to always get a new glass at an all- ... 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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Niklas Öfverbeck

FruitsPunchoSamurai

I WAS a swedish university student currently studying abroad for a semester at Ryukoku university in Kyoto, although the campus and my accommodations are in Seta, 17 minutes train ride east of the city and technically in the Otsu area. The programme I WAS studying is called JAS (Japanese & Asian studies). I am NOW studying journalism and have chosen to ignore said studies for little over a week. The purpose is to go gallivanting off to Japan again for the first time in over five years. During this time I'll be visiting Osaka and Tokyo, with one or two excursions. There will be nostalgia. Th... full info

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