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Ticket Giveaway: postal museum

In my May 21 column in The Japan Times, and the blog post above, I wrote about the history of postal service in Japan. So I’m giving away two sets of free tickets to the Tei Park Communications Museum in … Continue reading

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Ticket Giveaway: old-fashioned photo manipulation

One of the many new words I had to learn when my children attended Japanese school was zōkin 雑巾, which is a cleaning rag made by stitching together a few layers of cloth into a neat rectangle. Zōkin were always … Continue reading

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