July 26, 2010
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Memories of Kaohsiung: A happy birthday

I don’t think I could have asked for any better way to spend the first few hours of my 29th birthday.  Standing at the Martyrs Shrine in Kaohsiung, Taiwan looking out over a spectacular night view I had to laugh.  Beside me my new friend Molly (in Taiwan everyone seems to have a Westernized nickname)

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July 12, 2010
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Tokyo adventures: Yasukuni Shrine

I stood at the gateway to Yasukuni Shrine wondering how to feel.  This was the place that had been the focus of more then a few news stories and cause of several diplomatic crisis between Japan and the rest of the world.  Yasukuni, the shrine where the souls of millions of Japanese people ‘dedicated to

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