tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35133394511036144352024-10-24T20:08:02.276+08:00<blockquote>February 8-21, 2011: Tokyo, Hakone, Kyoto, Nara, Ohara, Osaka<br> ２０１１年２月８日－２１日：東京、箱根、京都、奈良、大原、大阪</blockquote>Sara &amp; Lara (何靜寧 &amp; 何靜嵐)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01992626989978391632noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3513339451103614435.post-86746404331564877052011-05-14T14:26:00.001+08:002011-12-11T08:34:46.338+08:00

The bus from Osaka emerged from the night into a concrete jungle of tall buildings, all shades of gray to match the gray skies overhead. Large droplets of slush rained down upon scenes from Shinjuku, a district in the western part of Greater Tokyo, that passed by outside of our fogged-up windows. Lara and Sam were still asleep when the bus driver announced we would be arriving at our stop,

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How long is thirteen days? Scenes from the outskirts of Taipei City flew by outside the windows of a taxi carrying Sam, Lara, and myself to a plane bound for Osaka, Japan. With nothing left to wring my nervous hands around, I began to let my mind wander from the flurry of a billion thoughts and worries. I spotted a woman driving a car in the lane next to us, counting money with both hands while

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The story of our infatuation with Japan begins as most stories about infatuations with Japan do: Pokemon. It was when we were in elementary school that the Pokemon craze first hit the United States -- hard. Almost every single kid on the playground had a stack of trading cards in their pockets and some of the luckier ones returned home to their two-tone Nintendo Gameboys and Pokemon video

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