Spring in Japan

Roads go ever ever on, over rock and under tree...

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a e s t h e t i c 飲み物

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Peking Duck - Yokohama's Chinatown - Naka Ward, Yokohama

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Yokohama's Chinatown - Naka Ward, Yokohama

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Kit-Kat Chocolatory. Umeda, Osaka.

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8 hour bus ride across the country, and my first night in Osaka! Featuring: Osaka Aquarium and some delicious omurice. <3

Fun fact: http://willerexpress.com/en/

You can travel across Japan by bus on a budget! Such a great deal. I traveled from Roundtrip, and there are passes for around 10,000 yen for three back and forth trips to any of their locations. Good way to travel, but you do need to pay close attention to where you will be dropped off. If they aren’t close to any points of interest for you... pick another drop-off/pick-up area. The distance between the bus stop and where you want to go may be too expensive to cross with traditional railways. Don’t forget to budget in-city transportation like city rail and buses to get around, too!

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Nanaya Shizuoka Matcha Sweets Factory. No. 1 to the strongest: No. 7.

Fun fact: Nanaya in Shizuoka boasts the strongest matcha ice cream. It’s delicious!! No. 7 is no joke, so goood. If you have a matcha craving, head here!

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Since it’s Nagasaki Day, let’s remember how the US convinced the entire world that the deaths of 39000-80000 people, which consisted MOSTLY of civilians, was equivalent to the attack on Pearl Harbour, a military base

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Let’s also remember that dropping these bombs had NOTHING to do with “ending the war by sacrificing a few lives” because the war had already been lost for Japan before that. Japan was already on the verge of surrender and William Leahy, who was Truman’s Chief of staff, told Truman and knew this. Leahy also said that “the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan” The only thing was that Japan wanted to keep their emperor in power to help control the changes that would be made in an occupied Japan. Dwigth Eisenhower, Henry Stimson, William Halsey Jr., Curtis LeMay were all prominent leaders in the military and have said the same. That dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary and had nothing to do with the war.

So why was the bomb dropped? Because the U.S needed to test it in a real life scenario and it was a message to the rest of the world and Russia specifically. The message was “we can destroy highly packed cities in an instance and we can do it whenever we want” and it was supposed to demonstrate how atomic weapons would help dominate the postwar era. The United states killed thousands of people and ruined immeasurable lives to prove a point. To say “look how big our guns are”. 

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Omiyage.

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Banana and Hot Chocolate pancakes. 

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Meiji Shrine. Shinto temple right next to Harajuku Station. 

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Substitute Pikachuuuuu! 

Fun fact: I bought dis cutie.

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Mermaid Lagoon, Tokyo Disney Sea.

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The architecture is so cool! 

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This. place. is. huge. So. much. space.

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Tokyo Disney Sea at night.

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Rey Ventura. Journalist, filmmaker, writer, and instructor.

Fun fact: Rey Ventura teaches occasionally at Meiji Gakuin University. He was not teaching during my semester there. He writes about the Filipino experience in Japan; particularly during his time as an undocumented immigrant.

Underground in Japan hits close to home, documenting the plight of Filipinos working abroad, trying to send remittances to long-unseen family. Japan has strict immigration laws. The majority of those that are undocumented in Japan are there under expired visas. It largely explores WHY Filipinxs continue to travel to Japan despite the alienating and sometimes dehumanizing experiences told by those in the book.