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    Although he details are not clearly mentioned in this story, we can assume from Ango’s biographical fact that the narrator left the hometown to Tokyo to study in university. The loss he experienced in his hometown is, the same as Baudelaire’s, chronological. However, Baudelaire does not experiences the geographical separation from his dear old Paris. Ango’s narrator has the life to live in now since

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    new urbanism, which can definity reduce the amount of air pollution, traffic and created by cars. (Peters, 2015). In tokyo japan they have an unique source of transport called a shinkansen, which is a bullet train. This model can convince some citizens to ditch their cars and use the bullet train to get to their destination much quicker. To prove that this model is efficient tokyo isn't on the most polluted cities in the world list or the most congested cities list either. This would really reduce

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    100 active volcanoes. One of the active volcanoes is the famous Mt. Fuji.(Mount Fuji is a distinctive feature of the geography of Japan. It stands 3,776.24 m (12,389 ft) high and is located near the Pacific coast of central Honshu, just west of Tokyo.) Tokyo is the capital of Japan. Japan is generally a rainy country with high humidity. Because of its wide range of latitude, seasonal winds, and different types of ocean currents, Japan has a variety of climates ranging from: hot, dry, humid, wet, snowy

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    article was published in Business Wire on August 10th, 2017. It announced that Canada Goose Inc., who is well- known for specializing in making expensive winter outwear, is going to spread its market by opening up three additional new retail stores in Tokyo, Boston, and Calgary this autumn. Earlier, the brand had informed that it would open stores in London and Chicago this fall as well. Now, it wants to add more stores to the line. So, the flagship store with 3,100 square feet will be in Tokyo’s Sendagaya

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    Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The horrific fire raids of Tokyo also killed thousands. Some people think however that it was retaliation for the bombing of pearl harbour and needed to be done to save the war from continuing. It was a scare tactic used by America to try and become a more powerful and fear instilling nation to prevent people from messing with America.

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    General Introduction Japan and Britain have many similarities. Both are island states and have long existed as distinct political units, little affected by turmoil on the nearby mainland. . The last successful invasion of Britain took place in 1066; th only successful invasion of Japan cam at the end of World War II. Both countries became imperialist powers, both are parliamentary democracies, and both are heavily urbanized, post-industrial societies, earning most of their weath from services.

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    was a young child. He loves making sushi so much that he even dreams of it at night. He owns a small restaurant in Tokyo at a subway station named Sukiyabashi. The restaurant only has a 10 bar seat capacity which makes it more difficult for people to have his sushi as often as they wished. Some people make reservations as much as one year in advance when they know they are coming to Tokyo. A typical average night eating at Sukiyabashi can cost about $300 dollars. People from all over the world come

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    It was only a demonstration sport. The only countries involved were South Korea, Philippine’s, Singapore, Finland, and Japan. According to Morgan(2015), “Ten-pin bowling has applied for inclusion in the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo. With support from over 1 million fans from Japan, where the game is growing rapidly in popularity, bowling is hoping to edge its' way in. A final recommendation to the International Olympic Committee is expected in September but the final decision

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    of action decided upon would use the Army Air Force and the Navy. Their mission would be to deliver bombers modified to take off from carrier vessels within striking distance of Japan. Then the bombers would launch, fly to, and bomb the cities of Tokyo and Nagoya.2 This mission would come to be known as the Doolittle raid, named for Lieutenant Colonel James "Jimmy" Doolittle, who planned the mission.3 He was selected by Gen. Henry H. Arnold, Chief of Staff of the Army Air Forces.4 The selection

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    Epidemiology Epidemiology is the branch of medicine that deals with the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases and other factors relating to health (Schneider, 8). In 1847, a Viennese obstetrician by the name of Ignac Semmelweis discovered the importance of handwashing in a hospital setting (Gawande, 15). Before the discovery of antibiotics, childbed fever was the number one cause of maternal death in childbirth. Semmelweis realized by not washing their hands, doctors were the

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