Japan travel: Satisfying your yen for real Japanese culture

In the summer of 1853, four American ships sailed into Tokyo Bay, ending Japan’s 200 years of self-imposed isolation. The extraordinary, insular country they found immediately captured the world’s imagination, sparking a craze known as Japonisme that changed Western art and aesthetics forever. Japan continues to fascinate and delight; a country of startling modernity and of […]

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