Jane's and Mitch's Japan 2007 Trip


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Both Shizu and Kazu attended and received their master's degrees from George Mason University's Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution in the middle 2000s. Both of them now live and work in the greater Tokyo area (as do about 25% of Japan's population!). Shizu took us to the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in the afternoon, while Kazu joined us for dinner later that evening.

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Yet a third building that we that we saw in the Imperial Palace East Gardens shortly after we went through the Kikyo-mon Gate, and this one had a documented purpose -- it housed at least 100 guards that were to properly greet any would-be gate crashers.