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... Exercise Meet), starting as young as Preschool and continuing until High School. These are highly ritualized events (like everything in Japan) in which each grade competes in different events such as running relays, tug of war, etc. There is marching in ...
Leila and I arrived back in Katsuura and I went to school as usual during the week, when I got home we went on mini-excursions in the afternoons. Day 1-2: bike tour around town, trip to the super center to buy food for the week, took the day off from ...
... he kept hitting his head against the side of the bucket, so we let them go :) There are 40 kinds of blow fish caught and grown in Japan and 10,000 tons of blow fish are eaten each year! There is an old Japanese expression, "I want to eat fugu, but I don't ...
... , grilled slightly with a blow torch), and tamago (egg over rice). There are countless local festivals (matsuri) in Japan because almost every shrine celebrates its own one. Most festivals are held annually and some last for several ...
