Tag: Japan

• Pretty Maids in a Row…

  With Japan Olympic Games on radar sharing a flash-back of 2010 Japan trip, an intoxicating and illuminating adventure of a lifetime. THE WHOLE OF JAPAN IS A PURE INVENTION. THERE IS NO SUCH COUNTRY, THERE ARE NO SUCH PEOPLE…. THE JAPANESE PEOPLE ARE… SIMPLY A MODE OF STYLE, AN EXQUISITE FANCY OF ART.” – OSCAR […]

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  June 29, 2021

  2021, Accidental Expat, Sense of Place

  2010, Akihabara, Anime, Flash back, Japan, Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO), Maid cafe, Olympics 2021, Quirks, Tokyo

• Lens-Artists Challenge 113 – Labors of Love

  

  “My mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general, if you become a monk you’ll end up as the pope.’ Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”— Pablo Picasso How many of us achieve what we set out to be and do….shuffling along on life’s road map […]

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  September 6, 2020

  2020, Sense of Place

  China, Japan, Lens-Artists Challenge 113-Labors of Love, Pune, Quebec

• Hiroshima-Atom-i-fied…Memories Are forever

  Past Revisited: In August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber famously known as the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, marking the first of two times the bomb has ever been used in warfare. The death toll itself was mind-boggling. As many as 140,000 people ultimately died from the blast, but not all perished immediately. The residual health […]

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  August 7, 2020

  2020, Accidental Expat, Sense of Place

  Children’s Peace Monument, Hiroshima, Hiroshima Peace Memorial, Japan, Nagasaki, Nuclear weapon