Stories about Culture in Tokyo
Relaxing RyokanMaryLou Driedger - marylou [4,443] My husband had his best sleep ever in our ryokan in Japan.
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Oita Prefecture |
Nara |
Nagoya |
Hiroshima |
Wakayama Prefecture |
Kochi |
Okinawa |
Kyushu |
Nagano prefecture |
Kagoshima Prefecture |
Uraga |
Ishikawa |
Sapporo |
Nikko |
Hokkaido |
Kyoto |
Kanagawa |
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Yokohama |
Osaka
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Exploring Japan...In San FranciscoCeleste Heiter - cheiter [29,099] Twelve city blocks in the heart of San Francisco are home to a thriving Japanese community. Bounded by Pine, Octavia, O'Farrell and Fillmore Streets, San Francisco's Japantown is the oldest and...
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Wrong About JapanWill Raus - wraus [1,715] For the West, Japan has always been an enigma. From the day that Commodore Perry opened Japan to the rest of the world, it has introduced us to a world far removed from our own. Even today, with all...
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Film Review: The Last Life in the UniverseCeleste Heiter - cheiter [29,099] Is it possible for a film to be, at once, existential, fatalistic and nihilistic without being a total bummer? Amazingly, Pen-Ek Ratanaruang's 'The Last Life in the Universe' manages to do just that.
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Japan
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Film Review: The Last SamuraiCeleste Heiter - cheiter [29,099] A perfect blossom is a rare thing...You could spend your life looking for one, And it would not be a wasted life. --Katsumoto, The Last Samurai The year is 1876, a time of worldwide social, economic...
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Tokyo |
Japan
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Film Review: Memoirs of a GeishaCeleste Heiter - cheiter [29,099] Based upon the critically acclaimed novel by Arthur Golden, this much-anticipated film tells the tale of Chiyo, a nine-year-old girl from an impoverished family whose father sells her and her sister...
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Japan
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Are You a Sushi Virgin?Celeste Heiter - cheiter [29,099] It's the 21st century. Every third car on the road is a Honda, a Nissan, a Toyota, or a Mitsubishi. And there probably isn't a household in the country that doesn't use something manufactured by Sony.
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Tokyo |
Japan
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The fortune-tellers of TokyoAgence-France Presse AFP - Global [28,579] * * * Every night when the offices close and the shops pull down their shutters, the fortune-tellers of Tokyo set up their tables in the darkened doorways, keeping a centuries old tradition alive.
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Japan
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The Floating WorldKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] An essay on the geisha, drawing on two books on the subject - Liza Dalby's Geisha and Lesley Downer's Geisha: The Secret history of a Vanishing World.
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Tokyo |
Japan
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Book Review: Kitchen by Banana YoshimotoCeleste Heiter - cheiter [29,099] "The place I like best in this world is the kitchen. No matter where it is, no matter what kind, if it's a kitchen, if it's a place where they make food, it's fine with me." So begins Kitchen,...
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