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A Message from Tokyo – January 2025
Goodbye 2024. Hello 2025. Happy New Year, Everyone! Sitting here at my garden table on the first Sunday of January 2025 feels no different from any other day, but I’m grateful for the upcoming year that stretches out before me, waiting for me to carve. Japan experienced a year filled with significant events, ranging from natural disasters to groundbreaking achievements and cultural milestones. The year started with the massive earthquake in the Noto Peninsula on New Year’s Day marking the most disastrous start of a New Year. In this post, I will narrate an incident that left us with mixed feelings at the start of 2024! On 1st January 2024,…
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Our Trip to Shirakawa-go
Enjoy the video – Details of marvellous travel coming soon…
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Life Is An Adventure
When was the last time you went on an adventure? While some of us still see travel as an adventure, for many of us, our adventurous spirit is something that we have left behind in our childhood. Our days of exploring new places, climbing trees, and camping under the stars seems like a lifetime ago. But it doesn’t have to be that way! An adventure is any kind of exciting experience that is a bold or risky undertaking. From traveling and exploring new places, to extreme sports like scuba diving, sky diving, parachuting, rafting, mountain climbing, and even changing career path, there are an increasing number of ways to challenge yourself…
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Hiroshima – Japan’s Peace Prefecture
Hiroshima is best remembered as the first city targeted by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped the atomic bomb “Little Boy” on the city at 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945. Most of the city was destroyed, and by the end of the year 90,000–166,000 people had died as a result of the blast and its effects. In December 1996 at UNESCO’s 20th World Heritage Committee Convention in Merida, the Atomic Bomb Dome was listed as a World Heritage site being a building that communicates the total devastation caused by nuclear weapons. The erstwhile Atomic Bomb Dome was constructed in 1915 and in 1933…
