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Headed West: Rural Travel in Japan's Noto Peninsula

  Headed West: Rural Travel in Japan’s Noto Peninsula   It’s easy to get caught up in the industrial/entertainment juggernaut that is the East Coast of Japan. The mind-bending neon and manga inspired mayhem are all consuming and distract from the fact that Japan has a West Coast, too. So it comes as a surprise …

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World Nomad Games 2014

On Press Passes and Sheep Asses: The World Nomad Games

Like all good Central Asia stories, it both starts and ends with a cold beer and a couple sticks of sheep shashlyk. One moment a late night chat over ways to make inroads in Kyrgyzstan, and seemingly the next talking my way past security and picking up a Press Pass for the World Nomad Games. Which, really, is what …

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Kyoto, Japan – The Romance and Reality

Kyoto, Japan – The Romance and Reality Kyoto, Japan. Mere mention of the name here in Tokyo brings out the capital’s overworked, underpaid and constantly knackered work force into a beaming soliloquy about tradition and romance. Spared of World War II bombs and home to some two thousand temples and shrines, this is a city …

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