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Why Japan will Overcome this Crisis
... later.
I awoke the morning of the 11th to an onslaught of messages on facebook of concerned friends in Japan. They described the swaying of the buildings to that of our ship rolling back and forth on the high seas. The video footage was unbelievable. The devastation was a far-cry from the pristine and orderly manner of Japanese culture that I was so accustomed in my five previous visits to Japan.
My earliest memory of Japan dates back ...
Kakunodate, Nyuto Onsen Hot Spring, Zuihoden
... a rustic prefecture). Actually, if I had walked in the mountain from the nearest bus stop to the inn, it would have taken 40 minutes. Anyway, when I got off just in front of the gate of the inn, I was so impressed by its tasteful appearance that I took some pictures right there. After I paid 500 yen admission fee, I headed for the outdoor mixed bath, which was the most famous bath of the inn. I didn't lack common sense, but I took a few pictures of the bath, ...
Encounter with a samurai
... it really just takes a minute or two for everybody to get off and board... The Japanese travel light, I realized today - this may also be because they are only going on short trips (even though they may be for a few hundred kms). The luggage compartment was tiny in any case and with my big bag (which I had difficulties closing, I must have bought a lot more than I thought in Tokyo...) and two suitcases it was full... Again, a little food comment - at the ...
Thoughts on the Train
Have not kept up with my notes for four or five days now so inevitably
thoughts have been lost, surpassed, superseded, chewed up by the
continuum of the present. So here is an attempt to retrieve a few of
those morsels after they have already been swallowed.
Beth and I are not made for paired-down minimalist Japanese living - its not in our nature. We have too much... stuff. And whilst we might hold delusions that we could enjoy this ...
Set Views
The importance of the development of digital photography cannot be underestimated in Asia. Now everything can be photographed, everything captured. And yet, bizarrely not everything is. With the capacity for limitless image production, the Asians limit themselves to a few prescribed views, a catalogue of pre-ordained vistas. There are a plethora of photos taken of these, a whole memory-card full. But there are none looking the other way. None ...



