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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As you draw near the Imperial Palace, you come to a huge black-topped area called the Imperial Palace Plaza, that thousands upon thousands of people will stand on whenever the Emperor gives audience (normally on his birthday). This picture and the following four show some of the trees surrounding the Imperial Palace Plaza.