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  • Students and teacher in front of the Attarkiah Islamiah institute in Narathiwat. This private school is the biggest islamic school in Thailand. It has about 4000 students who go there to study from all over Thailand and 223 teachers. It has middle-school and high-school  and together with the normal lessons the students are also taught the Koran and the islamic rules.
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  • Class at the Attarkiah Islamiah institute in Narathiwat. This private school is the biggest islamic school in Thailand. It has about 4000 students who go there to study from all over Thailand and 223 teachers. It has middle-school and high-school  and together with the normal lessons the students are also taught the Koran and the islamic rules.
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  • Class at the Attarkiah Islamiah institute in Narathiwat. This private school is the biggest islamic school in Thailand. It has about 4000 students who go there to study from all over Thailand and 223 teachers. It has middle-school and high-school  and together with the normal lessons the students are also taught the Koran and the islamic rules.
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  • The director of the Greek school Zappeion, in the main meeting room of the old neoclassical building that was build by Konstantinos Zappas in 1875, near Taxim square. It used to be a girls school and it was much busier when the Greek community in Istanbul was strong. It now has a few remaining Greek pupils and a few Turkish that are Christian Orthodox..ISTANBUL, Androniki Christodoulou/WorldPictureNews
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  • Students trainning outdoors at  the Taijiquan school in Chenjiagou village. Most students of the school live at the dormitories and rooms of the school untill they complete their studies.
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  • Teacher Chen Hui showing pushing hands techniques to students which are trainning outdoors at  the Taijiquan school in Chenjiagou village. Most students of the school live at the dormitories and rooms of the school untill they complete their studies.
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  • Early morning warming up for students of the Taijiquan school in Chenjiagou village. Most students of the school live at the dormitories and rooms of the school untill they complete their studies.
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  • The Greek school Zappeion has a few remaining Greek pupils. .ISTANBUL, Androniki Christodoulou/WorldPictureNews
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  • Students trainning outdoors at  the Taijiquan school in Chenjiagou village. Most students of the school live at the dormitories and rooms of the school untill they complete their studies.
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  • Master Chen Xiaoxing, executive president of Chenjiagou Taijiquan School, granding awards to Taijiquan teachers after a demonstration at the Chenjiagou Taijiquan School
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  • Yao Mingwei (32) at the balcony outside his room, overlooking at the main yeard of the Taijiquan school. He comes from north China and after spending time woring in Dubai, he quit his job and decided to come back to China to study Tai Chi so that he can become a teacher. He spent 6 months living and studying at the Chenjiagou school of Taijiquan.
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  • Students of the Taijuquan school practicing with the Tai Chi fan in the yard of the school
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  • Students at the Mushlim school of the 300-Year Mosque..300-Years Mosque or Wadi Al-Husein Mosque is located at Ban Talomano, Tambon Lubosawo, 25 kms. north of Narathiwat or 4 kms. from Amphoe Bacho on Highway No. 42. As the sign outside it says, it was build in 1624 by Wan Husein, a pioneer of Due Lok Mano Village and an islamic teacher at Sano Village. The whole wood building is a combination of Javanese and local styles of art before the Arab influence.
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  • Master Chen Ziqiang during a demonstration at the Chenjiagou Taijiquan School. He is Vice president and chief coach of the Chenjiagou Taijiquan school. He is the 20th generation lineage holder of Chen family Taijiquan.
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  • Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang teaching Chinese Taijiquan teachers during a seminar at the Chenjiagou Taijiquan School. Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang is a world famous Chinese Taijiquan teacher, who was born and rased in Chenjiagou. Since 1990 he left China and started promoting Taijiquan around the world. He is recognized as one of four "Buddha's Warrior Attendants," the four outstanding exponents of the 19th generation in Chenjiagou village.
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  • Grangmaster Chen Xiaowang loughing after being prased by a local politician who came to visit him at the Chenjiagou Taijiquan School. Chen Xiaowang lives abroad and he only spends limited time in China. During that time he is very busy teaching but also having various meetings to help promote Taijiquan and his village Chenjiagou. He has helped to build a new museum of Taijiquan there and make his village known internationaly via his students in many countries around the world where he is teaching seminars.
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  • Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang teaching foreignTaijquan teachers and students during a seminar at the Chenjiagou Taijiquan School. Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang is a world famous Chinese Taijiquan teacher, who was born and rased in Chenjiagou. Since 1990 he left China and started promoting Taiji around the world. He is recognized as one of four "Buddha's Warrior Attendants," the four outstanding exponents of the 19th generation in Chenjiagou village.
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  • Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang teaching Chinese Taijiquan teachers during a seminar at the Chenjiagou Taijiquan School. Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang is a world famous Chinese Taijiquan teacher, who was born and rased in Chenjiagou. Since 1990 he left China and started promoting Taijiquan around the world. He is recognized as one of four "Buddha's Warrior Attendants," the four outstanding exponents of the 19th generation in Chenjiagou village.
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  • Wang Ling Fan (12) on her dormitory bed. She is a cousin of master Chen Ziqiang. She has been living and stusying at the Chenjiagou School of Taijiquan for 3 years and she will sty untill she becomes 20 years old.
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  • Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang teaching Chinese Taijiquan teachers during a seminar at the Chenjiagou Taijiquan School. Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang is a world famous Chinese Taijiquan teacher, who was born and rased in Chenjiagou. Since 1990 he left China and started promoting Taijiquan around the world. He is recognized as one of four "Buddha's Warrior Attendants," the four outstanding exponents of the 19th generation in Chenjiagou village.
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  • Chinese teachers practicing during a breack at a seminar taught by Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang in Chenjiagou Taijiquan School.
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  • Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang teaching Chinese Taijiquan teachers during a seminar at the Chenjiagou Taijiquan School. Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang is a world famous Chinese Taijiquan teacher, who was born and rased in Chenjiagou. Since 1990 he left China and started promoting Taijiquan around the world. He is recognized as one of four "Buddha's Warrior Attendants," the four outstanding exponents of the 19th generation in Chenjiagou village.
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  • Taijiquan student (left) talking with teacher Chen Hui (right) before a demonstration at Chenjiagou Taijiquan School.
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  • Poster with members of the Chen family with the  four "Buddha's Warrior Attendants," the four outstanding exponents of the 19th generation in Chenjiagou at the bottom of it. I is located in the center of the village very near the Chenjiagou Taijiquan School.
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  • Wan Jian Yu (27) in his room. He has been living and studying at the Chenjiagou School of Taijiquan for 4 months already and he wants to stay for at least a year. He has done many jobs with his latest being a designer for advertising but he wants to become a Taijiquan teacher.
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  • Master Chen Ziqiang, Vice president and chief coach of the Chenjiagou Taijiquan school. He is the 20th generation lineage holder of Chen family Taijiquan.
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  • Students trainning outdoors at  the Taijiquan school in Chenjiagou village
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  • Taijiquan demonstration by students of the Taijiquan school in Chenjiagou  village.
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  • Taijiquan demonstration by students of the Taijiquan school in Chenjiagou  village.
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  • Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang presenting some of his calligraphy works to foreign and Chinese students during a seminar at the Chenjiagou Taijiquan School. Calligraphy is very important for him as he considers it almost equal to his Taijiquan skill.
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  • Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang teaching foreignTaijquan teachers and students during a seminar at the Chenjiagou Taijiquan School. Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang is a world famous Chinese Taijiquan teacher, who was born and rased in Chenjiagou. Since 1990 he left China and started promoting Taiji around the world. He is recognized as one of four "Buddha's Warrior Attendants," the four outstanding exponents of the 19th generation in Chenjiagou village.
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  • Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang teaching Chinese Taijiquan teachers during a seminar at the Chenjiagou Taijiquan School. Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang is a world famous Chinese Taijiquan teacher, who was born and rased in Chenjiagou. Since 1990 he left China and started promoting Taijiquan around the world. He is recognized as one of four "Buddha's Warrior Attendants," the four outstanding exponents of the 19th generation in Chenjiagou village.
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  • The gate of the Chenjiagou Taijiquan School, in Chenjiagou village.
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  • Street scene in front of the gate (right) of the Chenjiagou Taijiquan School, in Chenjiagou village.
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  • Evening trainning is double sword at the Chenjiagou Taijiquan School
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  • Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang during a demonstration at the Chenjiagou Taijiquan School. Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang is a world famous Chinese Taijiquan teacher, who was born and rased in Chenjiagou. Since 1990 he left China and started promoting Taiji around the world. He is recognized as one of four "Buddha's Warrior Attendants," the four outstanding exponents of the 19th generation in Chenjiagou.
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  • Evening trainning is Taijiquan wrestling at the Chenjiagou Taijiquan School
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  • Master Chen Ziqiang, Vice president and chief coach of the Chenjiagou Taijiquan school. He is the 20th generation lineage holder of Chen family Taijiquan.
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  • Older building of the museum of Taijiquan in Chenjiagou village with pictures of taijiquan postures. At he lower part of the picture a maquette showing the plan for development of Chenjiagou village.
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  • Park next to a river in Chenjiagou where it is said that master Chen Wangting created Tajiquan.
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  • Statues showing Taijiquan postures at the museum of Taijiquan in Chenjiagou village
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  • The house of one of the greatest masters of Chen style Tai Chi Quan, Chen Chang Xing (1771-1853), the 14th generation standard bearer of the art, has been transformed to a museum. There the statues of Chen Chang Xing and Yang Lu Chan tell an old story. "Taiji Quan (Tai Chi Chuan), or the system of taiji martial arts, has its origins in the Village, dating to Chen Wan Ting (1600-1680), a patriarch caught at the turn of the dynastic change in the 17th century. In the old days, the art was well guarded and not taught outside the Village, nor to anyone who was not of the Chen stock from the Village. In the early 1800's, a Chen Village native, Chen Dehu who owned the Taihetang Drugstore in Yongnian, returned home with his family to retire. A young man, Yang Lu Chan (1799-1872), who was working for the family, was brought along as he was well-liked. There are many versions of how this young man, an outsider, managed to break through the clan barrier to learn the art, and become a disciple of Chen Chang Xing (1771-1853), the 14th generation standard bearer of the art. Whichever the case, Yang proved to be of exceptional talents. He mastered the art and took it outside the village. Chenjiagou
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  • The inner yard of his house where Chen Changxing used to teach his students Taijiquan. There is still a very heavy stone there that it is said that the students used to lift as part of their trainning. The house of Chen Changxing is now a museum.
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  • Grandmasters Chen Xiaowang and Chen Xiaoxing (center left and right) during a visit to their family's ancestral graves where together with other members of their family they pay their respects to their ancestors with a ceremony.
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  • Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang with one of his official students, outside a temple after a ceremony to accept a number of students as his official students and new members of the Chen family.
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  • Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang in the mausoleum of the founder of Taijiquan and 9th generation of Chen family Chen Wangting (1600-1680), during a ceremony to accept a number of students as his official students and new members of the Chen family.
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  • Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang guided by one of his students to the mausoleum of the founder of Taijiquan and 9th generation of Chen family Chen Wangting (1600-1680) where he will take part in a ceremony to accept a number of students as his official students and new members of the Chen family.
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  • Monument in Chenjiagou village with the symbol of Taiji (Yin-Yang)
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  • Christian liturgy with the Greek Orthodox Patriarch, in "Panagia Hangariotisa" church, in Tsekfusarai. For the few remaining Greeks in Istanbul, religion and the Patriarchy is a strong bond for their community..ISTANBUL, Androniki Christodoulou/WorldPictureNews
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  • Older building of the museum of Taijiquan in Chenjiagou village with pictures of taijiquan postures and display of weapons used in taijiquan.
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  • The house of one of the greatest masters of Chen style Tai Chi Quan, Chen Chang Xing (1771-1853), the 14th generation standard bearer of the art, has been transformed to a museum. There the statues of Chen Chang Xing and Yang Lu Chan tell an old story. "Taiji Quan (Tai Chi Chuan), or the system of taiji martial arts, has its origins in the Village, dating to Chen Wan Ting (1600-1680), a patriarch caught at the turn of the dynastic change in the 17th century. In the old days, the art was well guarded and not taught outside the Village, nor to anyone who was not of the Chen stock from the Village. In the early 1800's, a Chen Village native, Chen Dehu who owned the Taihetang Drugstore in Yongnian, returned home with his family to retire. A young man, Yang Lu Chan (1799-1872), who was working for the family, was brought along as he was well-liked. There are many versions of how this young man, an outsider, managed to break through the clan barrier to learn the art, and become a disciple of Chen Chang Xing (1771-1853), the 14th generation standard bearer of the art. Whichever the case, Yang proved to be of exceptional talents. He mastered the art and took it outside the village. Chenjiagou
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  • The inner yard of his house where Chen Changxing used to teach his students Taijiquan. There is still a very heavy stone there that it is said that the students used to lift as part of their trainning. The house of Chen Changxing is now a museum.
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  • A chinese student of Taijiquan standing by the wall were it is said that Yang Lu-chan used to secretly watch master Chen Changxing teaching taijiquan to his students at that inner yard of his house. It is said that Chen family's taijiquan was only taught to its members so Yang Lu-chan chose this way to learn but he was later accepted by master Chen Changxing as his official student. He later developed his own style of Taijiquan which is known as Yang style. The house of Chen Changxing is now a museum.
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  • Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang in the mausoleum of the founder of Taijiquan and 9th generation of Chen family Chen Wangting (1600-1680), during a ceremony to accept a number of students as his official students and new members of the Chen family.
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  • Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang giving a speach outside the mausoleum of the founder of Taijiquan and 9th generation of Chen family Chen Wangting (1600-1680), where he will take part in a ceremony to accept a number of students as his official students and new members of the Chen family.
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  • The oldest shop of Chenjiagou village.
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  • Street market in Chenjoagou village
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  • Street market in Chenjoagou village
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  • Street market in Chenjoagou village
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  • The symbol of Taiji (yin-yang) in one of the rooms of the museum of Taijiquan in Chenjiagou village.
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  • Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang (left) and master Chen Ziqiang (right) during a visit to their family's ancestral graves where together with other members of their family they will pay their respects to their ancestors with a ceremony.
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  • Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang in the mausoleum of the founder of Taijiquan and 9th generation of Chen family Chen Wangting (1600-1680), during a ceremony to accept a number of students as his official students and new members of the Chen family.
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  • Chenjiagou's residents are mainly farmers and the village is surrounded by fields.
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  • Christian liturgy in the church of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchy, in Phener area. For the few remaining Greeks in Istanbul, religion and the Patriarchy is a strong bond for their community..ISTANBUL, Androniki Christodoulou/WorldPictureNews
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  • Street market in Chenjoagou village
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  • Christian liturgy with the Greek Orthodox Patriarch, in "Panagia Hangariotisa" church, in Tsekfusarai. For the few remaining Greeks in Istanbul, religion and the Patriarchy is a strong bond for their community..ISTANBUL, Androniki Christodoulou/WorldPictureNews
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  • Inside "St. Sophia" church in Sultanahmet which is one of the main tourist attractions of the city..ISTANBUL, Androniki Christodoulou/WorldPictureNews
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  • Picture of Yang Lu-chan, the founder of Yang style Taijiquan in the room where he used to live at the house of master Chen Changxing from who he learned Chen style Taijiquan. The house of Chen Changxing is now a museum.
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  • Schoolboys in Eyup. In the background Turkish riot police is ready to stop Schoolgirls who refuse to go to school without wearing the Islamic scarf from entering their school, and to confront Islamists who are expected to demonstrate in support of them. .ISTANBUL, Androniki Christodoulou/WorldPictureNews
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  • Pastor Simon (60) in front of pictures of his family, in the Mae La refugee camp. Pastor Simon is a Karen refugee who used to teach theology at a university in Rangoon and has been living in the camp for 20 years. He is the director of Kawthoolei Karen Baptist Churches of the refugee camps along the Thai-Burmese border and he runs the Kawthoolei Karen Baptist Bible School & College, a theology high school and college that has been functioning in the camp for 20 years. .Burmese refugee camp "Mae La" is north of border-town Mae Sot and lies along the Thai-Burmese border on the side of Thailand. Approximately 50,000 people live there. 38,167 was the official number of registered people in November 2009, according to the Thailand Burma Border Consortium (TBBC), and the rest are unregistered or people who come and go.
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  • Outside the 109 department store in Shibuya. Ajusa (left) is wearing her school uniform and Megumi (right) is casualy dressed except her make-up that is in the style of "Ganguro Gal"
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  • HIROKO HATAKEYAMA: Elementary school student who was four kilometers from the epicenter.  She lost many of her relatives in the bombing, including her cousin who was the same age.  We felt worn our and usually retreated to the barn, away from the quarreling adults.  One day my cousin confessed that his hair had started falling out.  I still vividly remember his blank face, frightened at this sign of death.  She still cries when she tells this story and is one of the few survivors who confesses to hating America. When she was invited by the UN to speak in New York two years ago, she almost didn't go. "I couldn't bear the thought of going to the US".
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  • HIROKO HATAKEYAMA: Elementary school student who was four kilometers from the epicenter.  She lost many of her relatives in the bombing, including her cousin who was the same age.  We felt worn our and usually retreated to the barn, away from the quarreling adults.  One day my cousin confessed that his hair had started falling out.  I still vividly remember his blank face, frightened at this sign of death.  She still cries when she tells this story and is one of the few survivors who confesses to hating America. When she was invited by the UN to speak in New York two years ago, she almost didn't go. "I couldn't bear the thought of going to the US".
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  • "SCHOOL SWEETS XR" adult manga stall. Story writer "Amagai Takahiro" has been writing the story for the last 6 years. TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET" the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
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  • "SCHOOL SWEETS XR" adult manga stall. TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET" the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
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  • "SCHOOL SWEETS XR" adult manga stall. Designer "Haine Umino" has been designing HS for 15 years. TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET" the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
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  • Trainning in Yabusame (equestian archery) at the branch of the Ogasawara school in Saitama
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  • Trainning in Yabusame (equestian archery) at the branch of the Ogasawara school in Saitama
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  • Trainning in Yabusame (equestian archery) at the branch of the Ogasawara school in Saitama
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  • Trainning in Yabusame (equestian archery) at the branch of the Ogasawara school in Saitama
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  • Trainning in Kyudo (archers) at the branch of the Ogasawara school in Saitama
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  • Trainning in Kyudo (archers) at the branch of the Ogasawara school in Saitama
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  • Trainning in Kyudo (archers) at the branch of the Ogasawara school in Saitama
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  • Trainning in Japanese manners at a branch of the Owasawara school in Saitama
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  • Trainning in Yabusame (equestian archery) at the branch of the Ogasawara school in Saitama
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  • Trainning in Yabusame (equestian archery) at the branch of the Ogasawara school in Saitama
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  • Trainning in Kyudo (archers) at the branch of the Ogasawara school in Saitama
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  • Trainning in Japanese manners at a branch of the Owasawara school in Saitama
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  • Faris (24 centre) with his wife Nour (18,5 right) and his brother Mohamed (12) are from Aleppo in Syria. He married his wife just before they left Syria where he was a Telecommunications engineer and she had just finished a medical high school. They were travelling together with their parents who decided to stay in Turkey because they didn’t want to do the difficult trip to Europe. His father had a bus company that closed down during the war. He and his wife want to go to Norway because he heard that this country is the best when it comes to Human Rights. He thinks that is more important than money. He wants to continue his studies there and get a Phd. She wants to study Architecture.<br />
The port of Mytilene where many refugees stay while they apply for a permit to stay in Greece or while they are waiting to board the ferry to Athens.
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  • Suda (18) was born in the Akha village Huei Naam Kun that is located in the mountains near Chiang Rai. She has been living at the premices of the NGO Children of the Golden Triangle for the last 8 years so that she can go to school, and hopes to go to University and become a mathematics or English teacher.
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  • Brothers Riza (21 on the right) and Aftab (19 on the left) Wahdat are from Pol-e-Khomri city in Bahlan province of Afghanistan. They were still at school when they started their journey 3 months ago. They left because of the war between the Taliban and the Daish. They travelled via Pakistan, Iran and Turkey before arriving at Mytilene island. They said that they had to walk all this way and survive on biscuits because Afghani people don’t have money. <br />
Refugees arriving on beaches near Molyvos village in Lesvos island. Thousands of them come from Turkey, crossing the sea border on inflatable dinghy boats, on a dangerous trip that has claimed many lives. Local people or NGOs expect them and help them in some places but after their arrival, most of them have to walk to the nearest village where they can hope for a places on busses that can take them to the city of Mytilene where they can register and eventually board on a ferry to Athens. Many decide to walk the distance as the busses aren’t enough to accommodate the large number of people that arrive daily.
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  • Ms HIROKO KATAKEYAMA. Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor, siting in front of an old map showing the epicenter and the range or the A-bomb in the city of Hiroshima. Elementary school student who was four kilometers from the epicenter.  She lost many of her relatives in the bombing, including her cousin who was the same age.  We felt worn our and usually retreated to the barn, away from the quarreling adults.  One day my cousin confessed that his hair had started falling out.  I still vividly remember his blank face, frightened at this sign of death.  She still cries when she tells this story and is one of the few survivors who confesses to hating America. When she was invited by the UN to speak in New York two years ago, she almost didn't go. "I couldn't bear the thought of going to the US".
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  • Zahra (17) (blue scarf) with her family. They used to live in Kabul where her father was a Shia priest who the Taliban didn’t like and she was going to high school with high interest in mathematics that she would like to study. Her mother was a seamstress and she also has two brothers of which we can see the younger. They all left Kabul in order to protect her as they were informed by a letter that a week later she would be taken by the Taliban. One of her neighbourhood friends had already been taken by the Taliban and nobody knew what happened to her, an other one of her friends had been killed in a suicide bombing and she was very scared. She is hoping that the family can reach a country where they can sleep without fear and where she will not create any more bad memories.<br />
Victoria square in Athens is one of the main gathering places for refugees. They stay there until they can find a way to travel to Thessaloniki and to the northern border of Greece where they can cross on foot on their way to northern European countries.
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  • Schoolchildren inside the refugee school in Mae La. Burmese refugee camp "Mae La" is north of border-town Mae Sot and lies along the Thai-Burmese border on the side of Thailand. Approximately 50,000 people live there. 38,167 was the official number of registered people in November 2009, according to the Thailand Burma Border Consortium (TBBC), and the rest are unregistered or people who come and go.
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  • Ms HIROKO KATAKEYAMA. Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor. Elementary school student who was four kilometers from the epicenter.  She lost many of her relatives in the bombing, including her cousin who was the same age.  We felt worn our and usually retreated to the barn, away from the quarreling adults.  One day my cousin confessed that his hair had started falling out.  I still vividly remember his blank face, frightened at this sign of death.  She still cries when she tells this story and is one of the few survivors who confesses to hating America. When she was invited by the UN to speak in New York two years ago, she almost didn't go. "I couldn't bear the thought of going to the US"..COPY: Old map showing the epicenter of the bombing and the range of the affected areas in Hiroshima.
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  • Ms HIROKO KATAKEYAMA. Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor. Elementary school student who was four kilometers from the epicenter.  She lost many of her relatives in the bombing, including her cousin who was the same age.  We felt worn our and usually retreated to the barn, away from the quarreling adults.  One day my cousin confessed that his hair had started falling out.  I still vividly remember his blank face, frightened at this sign of death.  She still cries when she tells this story and is one of the few survivors who confesses to hating America. When she was invited by the UN to speak in New York two years ago, she almost didn't go. "I couldn't bear the thought of going to the US". COPY: Old photo with her mother and her little brother who was kiled from the A-bombing of Hiroshima.
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  • Dr HIROSHI MARUYA. Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor. Honorary doctor of Kyoritsu Hospital and poet. COPY of an old photo Dr. Maruya is the second from the right at the back. In this photo, together with his fellow highschool students at the school dormitory.
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  • TAEKO TERAMAE Hiroshima A-bomb survivor, sitting at a riverbank inside the Peace Memorial Park, in front of the remains of the A-bomb Dome. On the 6th of August 1945 she was in her third year of  Shintoku girls' high school and was engaged in a in the telephone exchange service as a mobilized student at the Hiroshima Central Telephone Office. She was at work when the bomb fell and she was badly injured by pieces of broken glass that cut her face, resulting in loosing eyesight on her right eye. She survived by swimming to cross a river to a safer area, with the help of one of her teachers who later died. She is one of the survivors who tell their stories in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.
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  • TAEKO TERAMAE Hiroshima A-bomb survivor, sitting at a riverbank inside the Peace Memorial Park, in front of the remains of the A-bomb Dome. On the 6th of August 1945 she was in her third year of  Shintoku girls' high school and was engaged in a in the telephone exchange service as a mobilized student at the Hiroshima Central Telephone Office. She was at work when the bomb fell and she was badly injured by pieces of broken glass that cut her face, resulting in loosing eyesight on her right eye. She survived by swimming to cross a river to a safer area, with the help of one of her teachers who later died. She is one of the survivors who tell their stories in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.
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  • MICHIKO YAMAOKA Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor, in front of her mother's picture inside her appartment. She was 15 years old and a third-year student at a girl's middle school. She was working as a mobilized student at the Hiroshima Central Telephone Office and at the time of the bombing she was on her way to work. She was badly injured and would have died under a wall that collapsed on her, if her mother wouldn't have come to her rescue. Her face was disfigured by the injuries and by keloids that grew on it. Her condition made her want to die but her mother's support helped her regain the will for life. Later she went to the US and had 27 surgical operations on her keloids. She is one of the survivors who tell their stories in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and she has been even traveling overseas to tell her story.
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