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Nokogiriyama (Chiba) and Manazuru (Kanagawa)

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July 3rd 2014
This is two trips I am putting together due to lack of updating ever (sorry), but first off was Nokogiriyama, a mountain littered with interesting things down in the peninsula of Chiba. I'd been down to that area only once before, for school, because our resort campus is in that area, but didn't realize how far and long it was going to take to actually get to the mountain. There was a pretty big g ... read more

Asia » Japan

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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