Category: Japan
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Cartoon Crazy
I was aware that Japan produced a huge amount of anime, Japanese animation, but I had not realised, until coming here, how important cartoon characters are to them and how they ‘spill’ in to their every day lives. Cartoon characters are everywhere! Wherever there is a shop sign, or a commercial hoarding there will be…
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Goodbye Tokyo
さようなら東京 I not sure that I fell in love with Tokyo, but I did fall in love with the Japanese people. I don’t think that I’ve been anywhere else where it is the people that dominate, not the place. The Japanese have a quiet level of sophistication and a refreshing amount of uniformity that makes…
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Wow…amazing!
teamLab Planets Tokyo is an arts museum awarded a Guiness Book of Records for most visited museum in the world for 2023. Two and half million visited that year and I was keen to see what all the fuss was about. Well…OMG….A…mazing! So what is it all about? It sells itself as a fully immersive…
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“When they go low we go high”
Michelle Obama, 2016. How high should we go? I want to put my head in the clouds, and did exactly that yesterday. The Skytree in Tokyo is the tallest tower in the world at 634 metres ( 2,030 feet) and a must see on a visit to Tokyo. Opened in 2021 at a cost of…
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First Impressions.
22 hours travelling including 4 hours sleep in a claustrophobic, hard, upright seat in an overhot plane is really not easy. But then I was happy to finally arrive in a rainy Tokyo after seeing that Turkish Airlines had flown us in a Boeing 757 Max. Memories of all those new planes sitting out in…
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Country File : Japan
Japan is one of those countries we all know something about. Is it because we know it’s location ,the name of its capital, that is predominately Japanese people speaking Japanese or maybe because we’ve all owned a Sony TV? I’ve gleaned important facts in my reading about Japan. Firstly, it is classified as an archipelago…
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Why Japan?
When did I first become aware of Japan? A tricky question for someone who can’t remember what I ate for breakfast! I think the answer to this would be origami, the art of taking a flat piece of paper and, without any glue or clips, folding the paper to create 3D images. So Japanese, and…
