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From: <jking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 9:24 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: Japan
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> > I just got back from a tour of Japan. Amazing people and country. Felt
> > like a barbarian in a wonderful new place. With all the Japanese
> > tourists who tour their own country I was surprised to see very little
> > in the way of DSLRs. Mostly little digicams and legions of people
> > holding their cellphones up to the sights. An even older guy who was an
> > adult during WWII engaged me in conversation in Heroshima, took several
> > very studied shots of me with his Nikon F80 and promised me a print in
> > the mail. I sort of wished I was Japanese.
> >
>
> My experiences of working in Japan echo this. I got caught up in a second
> world war demonstration. My first thoughts were sh*t this is not going to
> be nice. Turned out it was a demonstration against the Japanese goverment
> doing somthing that as crazy again...
> Tourism for the Japanese seems to be about being at the place rather than
> anything else. You can buy a card with all the temples on it, go to the
> temple and get the box stamped and then leave... (NO I did not do this
> when I worked out there!) I felt simular attitude in China. Organised
> Chinese tours are terribly fast. You don't get time to focus before they
> move on....
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