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This photo was taken at around 4pm at Waseda, in Tokyo. It features my private English student Kim, who is Korean. I was teaching him from 3.30pm to 5.30pm, for 2000 yen which is a lot cheaper than what I charge my other students. However, I am desperate for whatever money I can get, so I will teach anyone for whatever price -- and he is an interesting guy with an interest in radical politics, and an invaluable link to Korea for me.   October 23 2003, 10.43 PM, in my house in Iriya, Tokyo, Japan -- the subject is me!   Having only bought my new camera fitted mobile phone on Sunday, I hadn't really tested it or exploited it until this moment. The reason I decided to star snapping now -- today was a exceptionally beautiful sunny day, the best kind of weather you could expect to find in Japan, and I was just dying to start photographing it. Hence these folloiwng results. A new fad is born -- and I have a 2nd digital camera! (By the way, the photo was taken in Ichinoe, Edogawa-ku, Tokyo -- even though it is part of one of the biggest cities on Earth, you can sometimes stumble upon market gardens and small farms and the like.)
  Typical suburban modern Japanese architecture   Kobayashi was late, so I filled the time by wandering the streets of Ichinoe // how I miss akiko, time for some love infusion!     Streetside Flower Setup></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width=
My boss Huck Kobayashi -- truly a crazy guy. I could write a book about his strange, Monty Pythonesque personality -- in fact, I probably will   One of the many, many temples and traditional uses of land that you will find in postindustrial Japan   Frontal view of the said temple.  
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