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Insight Guides: Japan

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  • Babak Eftekharihas quoted7 years ago
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  • Дина Кравченкоhas quoted8 years ago
    One other thing to remember is that, no matter how daunting business etiquette may seem, as a foreigner you are given plenty of leeway – making an effort is more important than getting everything right
  • Дина Кравченкоhas quoted8 years ago
    The pecking order for sitting is important: wait for others to decide this. The same applies to social situations like dinner.
  • Дина Кравченкоhas quoted8 years ago
    If we nourish the spirit through proper food and drink, illness will cure itself.”
  • Дина Кравченкоhas quoted8 years ago
    Few people know that the sumo practice tournament at Tokyo’s Kokugikan arena in the district of Ryogoku, is open to the public.
  • Дина Кравченкоhas quoted8 years ago
    Ogata in Kochi Prefecture is a good option between April and October, while humpback whales appear off the shores of the Kerama Islands from the middle of January to the end of March.
  • Дина Кравченкоhas quoted8 years ago
    Compact, organised and introspective: words stereotypically used to describe the Japanese might just as well be applied to their gardens
  • Дина Кравченкоhas quoted8 years ago
    To see authentic, steep thatch-roofed, A-framed farmhouses (gassho-zukuri), visit the villages of Shirakawa-go. The villages were made a Unesco World Heritage Site in 1995.
  • Дина Кравченкоhas quoted8 years ago
    Hung along Kyuome Kaido, the main street of Ome, a town west of Tokyo, are many old hand-painted movie signboards called kanban. From Nakahira Ko’s 1956 Crazed Fruit to scenes from chanbara (samurai action films), the street is a boulevard of nostalgia.
  • Дина Кравченкоhas quoted8 years ago
    To the Japanese people, Godzilla isn’t some huge, lumbering, atomic-born giant lizard. He’s their huge, lumbering, atomic-born giant lizard.
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