“The thing which I like most in Japanese streets is the wood…
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Tokyo in the Dark
Three days after my landing, the evening of the 8th, a large aftershock shook us. A tremor with an intensity of 6 was recorded in the Tohoku region, to be specific near Miyagi, on the Japanese 7 stage seismic scale. Tokyo recorded 3 out of 7. (To compare the numbers it was 5+ in Tokyo on 3.11.) Although the shake itself wasn’t a terrifying experience for me, I immediately received some concerned messages from friends abroad. I turned on the CNN and BBC, they were reporting the earthquake in Japan as a breaking news. Reading some concerned messages from Japanese friends abroad, I imagined how I would have felt watching the news through the TV in the other side of the world. I was glad to be home.
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Thinking of my previous and hopefully not last trip to Japan, fine memories come back into my mind. It was such an interesting and impressive journey, that I have problems to select only ten reminding and typical photographs. Three friends and I were keen to explore the whole country, but the ten days we had tightened our trip extremely and our prime focus lay on Tokyo and Kyoto.
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