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Japanese wedding Part II: "Action!"
The big day arrived with 15 guests coming from my home country Norway, 3 from Spain, and 12 other foreign guests living in Japan. |
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Japanese Wedding Part I: "A long, long way down the aisle"
Two autumns ago my Japanese husband and I finally tied the knot, and challenged the cultural obstacles of international marriage. Before our wedding, a Shinto wedding that was so traditional that even most of the Japanese guests hadn't experienced it before, the preparations were many and stretched over several months. |
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Tea of Sayama and the Tokorozawa new tea festival
On the 28th of April, the 12th Tokorozawa new tea festival took place in Saitama prefecture, the north of Tokyo. The harvesting season of the new tea was just at the beginning. The tea produced in Saitama is known under the name Sayama tea. |
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Eco-logical II: Re-thinking
“You reap what you saw”
Lately headlines about earth’s status quo are getting increasingly gloomy, and research shows that the 5% cut of carbon dioxide emission put down in the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, actually has been followed by a 6,4% increase. There have been several climate summits over the last 2 decades, and still we are battling with this problem more than ever. It is clear that we are doing something wrong or just not doing enough. The eco-campaign in Japan has been intensified as it was decided that this year’s G-8 summit would be held there. Tokyo, Japan’s capital, which is aiming at getting the Olympics in 2016, is using this to also counteract ecological problems. A campaign to improve its greenery was started in 2006, which aims for instance at increasing roadside trees from 486.000 to 1 million in 10 years. A related campaign is “my street-tree”, through which citizens can get their name on a roadside tree, an appeal to the community to be more eco-conscious.
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