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Add you name to the FOLLOWERS of this blog and help me to get my blog to those who love Japan as I do. To be specific, I want the publicity, the laurels that might come from publishing a blog dedicated to Japan, a Japan of the 60s and a Japan depicted by photos of guest photographers.

The above photo is one of the first snapshots I took with my new Petri in 1961. It is the entrance to the famed Isasakcho (spelled a hundred different ways) shopping street in Yokohama. In 1961 and the early 60s, it was THE place to begin a day in Yokohama.

Lanterns, Osaka

Lanterns, Osaka
Originally uploaded by Fiona Michelet

roberthuffstutter says:
My fascination with Japan began in the late 1940s when I became aware of National Geographic Magazine, War and the mystery of the Orient. My fascination with Japan led to much more than fascination the day I arrived in Japan in August of 1961.

By the time of my departure in December of 1963, I was in love with Japan and it was a love affair and intense romance that would last a lifetime.

My ultimate dream would be a return to Japan, but then, would I really want the memories I cherish to dim upon finding old haunts and places where I stayed, places where there were memories of a youthful romance, razed and removed, like my dreams, and face the reality of fate as it was dealt, or as I helped create fate by failing to return as I had planned?
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Lanterns, Osaka

Uploaded by Fiona Michelet on 3 Jun 10, 6.18AM PDT.