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The Ancient Capital
I live next door to the third largest Buddha in Japan, but despite living here for coming up on 17 months now, I still haven’t found the time to cross the street and see it. Instead, today I went 2 better and actually saw the biggest one up close in the city of Nara, which […]
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T-Boned And Shaken
I was crossing a small side street this morning on the way to work, when a car pulled out of a blind side-road and hit my bike side-on. Neither of us were travelling too fast so it wasn’t a big collision, but I was knocked off and my bike was crushed pretty badly. Fortunately, apart […]
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Dancing In The Street
Obon is a traditional Japanese festival at which time the spirits of your ancestors are said to return and visit you. It presents a rare opportunity for Japanese families to come together, as just about everybody in the whole country has a few days off at the same time. Apart from visiting graves and praying […]
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Noh Way
Noh theatre is a traditional style of Japanese drama about as far removed from the modern-day TV stuff as you could imagine. It’s so old that it’s apparently akin to watching Chaucer, without having first rewritten it and drafted in Billie Piper. Like kabuki, even Japanese people don’t understand what’s going on half the time, […]
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