Reading and Roaming
I have returned home from my Asian Adventure and along with re-adjusting to east coast time, I’m back doing more reading. Here are my latest books. WSJ Book Club Sometime ago, I read that the Wall Street Journal was starting an online book club. I was intrigued, but I was still working and didn’t think …
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It was fitting that on our last full day in Tokyo we visited the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation. That’s it’s full name, but it’s so long the Japanese call it Muraikan for short, which means ‘future.” Given its focus, it’s most appropriate. We were hosted by their international outreach team and their director, Dr. …
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Yesterday we meandered through several more parks (can’t seem to get our fill of these cherry blossoms!), but more significantly visited the Yushukan museum. It celebrates Japanese warriors down through the ages from the early Samurai through the Second World War. Those Japanese who died in battle are considered enshrined deities and their photos and …
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I have been traveling for almost five weeks now and not getting in my usual component of reading. However, I did read one book that I’d like to share. I enjoy well written memoirs, ones that share someone’s life experience in an informed, but not a whining, way. It’s a genre I seek out. Recently …
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