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  • Kayoko Furuya (L) and her sons Kaisei (7) (R) and Sojirou (11) (M) in their living-room of their apartment in Hatsuday, Tokyo.
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  • Kayoko Furuya (R) and her sons Kaisei (7) (L) and Sojirou (11) (M) in their living-room of their apartment in Hatsuday, Tokyo.
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  • Kayoko Furuya (R) and her sons Kaisei (7) (L) en Sojirou (11) (M) in their kichen of their home in Hatsuday, Tokyo.
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  • Hayashi Yoshitake (65) - reformed husband -  with his wife Takeko Yoshitake (65) win their living-room. They are both middle school teachers, she teaches music. They have been married for 39 years.  Tokyo 9 Feb. 2007
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  • Hayashi Yoshitake (65) - reformed husband -  trying to learn cooking, while his wife Takeko Yoshitake (65) is teaching him.  They are both middle school teachers, she teaches music. They have been married for 39 years.  Tokyo 9 Feb. 2007
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  • Hayashi Yoshitake (65) - reformed husband -  massaging his wife Takeko Yoshitake (65) while they are watching TV. They are both middle school teachers, she teaches music. They have been married for 39 years.  Tokyo 9 Feb. 2007
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  • Hayashi Yoshitake (65) - reformed husband -  massaging his wife Takeko Yoshitake (65) while they are watching TV. They are both middle school teachers, she teaches music. They have been married for 39 years.  Tokyo 9 Feb. 2007
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  • Hayashi Yoshitake (65) - reformed husband - offering coffee to his wife Takeko Yoshitake (65) when she is having a break from playing piano. They are both middle school teachers, she teaches music. They have been married for 39 years.  Tokyo 9 Feb. 2007
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  • Hayashi Yoshitake (65) - reformed husband -  trying to learn cooking, while his wife Takeko Yoshitake (65) is teaching him.  They are both middle school teachers, she teaches music. They have been married for 39 years.  Tokyo 9 Feb. 2007
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  • Hayashi Yoshitake (65) - reformed husband - offering coffee to his wife Takeko Yoshitake (65) when she is having a break from playing piano. They are both middle school teachers, she teaches music. They have been married for 39 years.  Tokyo 9 Feb. 2007
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  • Rady (18) at a rehabilitation center of an NGO that deals with raped and sexually trafficked children. Rady was born in a refugee camp in Thailand and grew up with her father and her step mother together with their 6 other children. When she was around 14 her family returned to Cambodia to live in very pure conditions in villages in Kompong Thom and Banteay Meanchey provinces. When she was 15 and a half she was working in a bakery shop to help her family but the shop closed and she was left without a job. Poverty in combination with her father's alcoholism and her step-mother's gambling, created many conflicts between them and Rady and that made her feel unwanted. She then decided to leave secretly for Phnom Penh where she was planning to meet one aunt who she was hoping could help her find a job. On arrival in Phnom Penh, she discovered that she had lost her aunt's phone number and she started searching for her with the help of a moto-taxi driver. She couldn't find her and after spending a night with the driver's family she went to the river-front where as she was wandering by herself a Moslem woman approached her and offered to help her find a job. Rady followed her and the woman sold her to a brothel that was at "the building", a run-down appartment block occupied by squatters. At that time Rady didn't even know what a brothel was. There Rady's virginity was sold to a Japanese man. After that Rady stayed at the brothel for one and a half month but she wouldn't receive any more clients because she became sick and was constantly vomiting. The owner of the brothel didn't want to let her go because she had payed money to buy her, but eventually she did when Rady asked for help form a visiting NGO person who was distributing condoms there. Rady spent 2 years at that NGO and when she left to go back to her family, the NGO helped her start her own business by providing her with a machine with which she could produce juice from sugarcane. The business went well until she
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  • Rady (18) at a rehabilitation center of an NGO that deals with raped and sexually trafficked children. Rady was born in a refugee camp in Thailand and grew up with her father and her step mother together with their 6 other children. When she was around 14 her family returned to Cambodia to live in very pure conditions in villages in Kompong Thom and Banteay Meanchey provinces. When she was 15 and a half she was working in a bakery shop to help her family but the shop closed and she was left without a job. Poverty in combination with her father's alcoholism and her step-mother's gambling, created many conflicts between them and Rady and that made her feel unwanted. She then decided to leave secretly for Phnom Penh where she was planning to meet one aunt who she was hoping could help her find a job. On arrival in Phnom Penh, she discovered that she had lost her aunt's phone number and she started searching for her with the help of a moto-taxi driver. She couldn't find her and after spending a night with the driver's family she went to the river-front where as she was wandering by herself a Moslem woman approached her and offered to help her find a job. Rady followed her and the woman sold her to a brothel that was at "the building", a run-down appartment block occupied by squatters. At that time Rady didn't even know what a brothel was. There Rady's virginity was sold to a Japanese man. After that Rady stayed at the brothel for one and a half month but she wouldn't receive any more clients because she became sick and was constantly vomiting. The owner of the brothel didn't want to let her go because she had payed money to buy her, but eventually she did when Rady asked for help form a visiting NGO person who was distributing condoms there. Rady spent 2 years at that NGO and when she left to go back to her family, the NGO helped her start her own business by providing her with a machine with which she could produce juice from sugarcane. The business went well until she
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  • Soraya Nashbandi (57) is from Kabul city of Afghanistan. She is travelling together with her two sons and her younger daughter. Her husband was killed 10 years ago but they never found out how. There used to be many explosions in Kabul in those days. Her oldest son (24) is a computer engineer and had a computer shop with 24 servers. Her youngest son (22) was studying to become a veterinarian. The family also had two cloths shops. The older brother decided to leave everything behind and take the family out of the country 9 months ago, when a powerful man in his 50s started pressuring the family to give him their older daughter (26) to become his 5th wife. The girl was engaged to an Afghan man who had immigrated to Norway and the family was trying to avoid the pressure of the older man. That man then threatened to take the younger daughter (17). They were afraid of what will happen to the daughters, as that man was influential and also had his own army. When they decided to leave, the hide for 4 days at an aunty’s house until they could make passports with fake names, then they boarded a flight to Tehran in Iran where they met with a smuggler who helped them go to Turkey in 12 days where they had to walk through the border. The went to Sivas city and there the daughter’s fiancee came to meet them, they got married and he waited for 50 days till she could get her visa to Norway before they left together. While in Turkey, Soraya started having health problems and at a hospital they found that she had blood cancer. She went through treatment and that was the reason they stayed in Turkey for so long. While in Turkey, they heard that the powerful man who wanted to marry her daughter was actually a trader, providing women to wealthy men. When the treatment finished and they only had to do regular check-ups, they decided to continue their trip. They went to Istanbul to meet the smugglers who could bring them to Greece and from there they where brought  to Izmir. They tri
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  • Muhammad (14, on the left) and Muhammad (18, on the right) are refugees from Syria. They met in Izmir and decided to continue travelling together. They both left their families behind because there wasn’t enough money for everyone to travel. The youngest one comes from Aleppo and his family has a small mini market. His parents are originally from Palestine and they went to Syria as refugees. Muhammad is now a second generation refugee, this time from Syria to Europe. He has been travelling for a month before he reached Thessaloniki. The older Muhammad is from Edlib and his family has a real estate business. He has been travelling for one month and twenty days. <br />
They both keep in touch with their families via social media apps and email. <br />
They arrived to Thessaloniki in the night and they spent the night sleeping at the bus station so that in the morning they could board the bus to Eidomeni border.<br />
Refugees often arrive to Thessaloniki by train and then they go to the intercity bus station to board on the bus to Eidomeni border where they can cross to the Republic of Macedonia on foot.
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  • Oddi (24) is from Darra city in Syria. He is traveling together with his wife who is pregnant, his mother and one more member of his family. His house was destroyed in the war. He and his family will be travelling to Germany where his two brothers live. He used to study to become a car mechanic and he wants to continue his studies in Germany. <br />
Refugees at the camp called PIKPA outside Mytilene city, that is one of the best organised. It is run but a group of volunteers under the name “The Village of Everyone Together”. People there are both from Syria and Afghanistan.
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  • TOYAMA MEDICINE.Basic incredients for producing traditional medicine, displayed in "Kanaoka residence" in Toyama city.  Kanaoka Residence is a rare museum in Japan that preserves and exhibits a lot of materials of the 300-year history of Toyama's medicine business as well as a wide range of materials relating to Japan's pharmaceutical industry. Its main building retains the characteristic structure of a medicine shop from the early Meiji Era. Araya (family's guesthouse) is an all-cypress building that shows a traditional wooden structure..Toyama prefecture is located near the center of Japan and is approximately the same distance from the three largest cities in Japan-Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka. Toyama's pharmaceutical tradition has a more than 300 years history. As it is located on the Japan sea, it is facing China and has been an importer of traditional Chinese medicine knowledge which it developed through the years. There are now approximately 100 manufactures and over 100 factories in Toyama in terms of pharmaceutical products and Toyama prefecture acquires a steady reputation as Japan's medicine manufacturing base. .Kanaoka Residence is a rare museum in Japan that preserves and exhibits a lot of materials of the 300-year history of Toyama?s medicine business as well as a wide range of materials relating to Japan's pharmaceutical industry. Its main building retains the characteristic structure of a medicine shop from the early Meiji Era. Araya (family's guesthouse) is an all-cypress building that shows a traditional wooden structure.
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  • Abbashi family from Herat, Afghanistan at Victoria square while they are waiting to find a way to travel to a northern european country, preferably Germany. 5 years ago the husband and the wife (standing) got injured in a suicide bombing. The husband spent 2 years in bed until he could recover and since then they tried to save money to bring the family out of the country. They now have no money and are waiting for some help to be able to continue their trip.<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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  • 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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  • Fade showing the route his boat followed from Turkey to Mytilene on his smart-phone. He had studied the route and used apps to calculate the distance and to know the weather. He and his family had bought quality life-jackets with lights that could blink in case of an accident instead of using the usual cheap life-jackets that the smugglers provide to the refugees. When the time to board the dinghy boat came and he found out that anyone found be the driver, he decided to take the task so that he can make sure his family would be safe. He was well prepared and he even had 2 Greek sim cards which he had asked a friend to send him from Greece. He eventually managed to cross the 22km in sea in one hour and land somewhere near Mytilene city, when other boats often lost their way and drifted for 20 hours before they could land. <br />
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Refugees at the camp called PIKPA outside Mytilene city, that is one of the best organised. It is run but a group of volunteers under the name “The Village of Everyone Together”. People there are both from Syria and Afghanistan.
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  • Fade is from Nabk city in Syria. He is travelling together with his sister, his wife and their two children. He used to work as an engineer for mobile phone antennas and they were wealthy with 3 houses and two cars. He saw a lot of injustice in his city with people who complained being arrested and 1/3 of the city flattened during 4 years of war. Together with many volunteers, he used to cook and offer food to about 15000 people in his city. Eventually he decided to leave Syria with his family. He brought with him as much money as he could but most of the money in his account was blocked by the Syrian government. They traveled for about 3,5 years via Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey till one and a half month ago when they arrived in Mytilene island. They occupy a small house at the camp which he organised almost as a permanent residence by creating a watering system and by planting vegetables and fruit. He believes that it is important to create a place where the “brother” who will move in after he and his family leaves can also live comfortably. He is one of the very few people who are considering to stay in Greece because he likes the people. He believes that a person with skills can survive anywhere. He will try to do this in Crete island where he has friends. He hopes to return to Syria after the war ends. <br />
Refugees at the camp called PIKPA outside Mytilene city, that is one of the best organised. It is run but a group of volunteers under the name “The Village of Everyone Together”. People there are both from Syria and Afghanistan.
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  • Rady's step-mother Jan Cum Saang (37) hiding her crying face when she is asked to tell what she thinks of Rady's story. She is very sorry that their relationship was bad and because of it Rady run away and she is now affraid of her other younger daughter that is vaunerable as she also has to work to help her family. She lives with her family in very poor conditions, in a wooden hut outside Sisophon town.
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  • Family wearing masks take a selfie with the Olympic stadium in the background at Shibuya Sky, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Tokyo, Japan August 7, 2021. Androniki Christodoulou
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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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  • 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 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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  • 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 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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  • Ali's perfume shop, in the Islamic area "Tsarsaba" in Fatih. He as a typical resident of the area follows the strict rules of Islam, refusing TV video and other contemporary manipulative media to disturb his family life. These who do not believe in Allah go to hell he said. .ISTANBUL, Androniki Christodoulou/WorldPictureNews
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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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  • 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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  • Vat Sarom (16) in a rehabilitation center of an NGO that deals with raped and sexually trafficked children. About one and a half year ago Sarom was living in a village bordering Thailand with her family. Her father had just had an accident stepping on a mine and her mother was pregnant, when a trafficker offered to help her get a job as a waitress at a restaurant in Siem Reap. She left her village and on the way the trafficker lied to her and instead brought her to Banteay Manchey province where she made her stay in a hotel, promising her that after that they would go to Siem Reap. There the woman trafficker sold her virginity to a man and forced her to stay with an other man for 3 nights. After that, instead of bringing her to Siem Reap, she sold her to a brothel at the village Sasda on the Thai border. There Sarom was locked in and forced to take 8-10 customers every night. To keep her awake and cheerful, the brother owner gave her drugs. These made her not wanting to eat or sleep and she was feeling happy without thinking any more. She was taking the drug every 3 days with the money she made of her tips. There were 14 girls in the brothel but only she and one more girl were underaged. She was afraid to escape because the owner of the brothel belonged to the military police and when some girls managed to escape, they were quickly caught and badly beaten when they were brought back. Eventually she managed to contact a relative of hers by borrowing a phone from a client and this way the operation for her rescuing started. On March 2007 and after she had spent 8 months in the brothel, the combination of a court decision, police pressure and the efforts of the NGO made the brothel owner release her. .Since then she is in the rehabilitation center, happy to be rescued but also very sad that all this happened, blaming herself for following the trafficker. She is trying to forget but she can not and instead she escapes in to her music, any music that she can hear from he
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  • Vat Sarom (16) in a rehabilitation center of an NGO that deals with raped and sexually trafficked children. About one and a half year ago Sarom was living in a village bordering Thailand with her family. Her father had just had an accident stepping on a mine and her mother was pregnant, when a trafficker offered to help her get a job as a waitress at a restaurant in Siem Reap. She left her village and on the way the trafficker lied to her and instead brought her to Banteay Manchey province where she made her stay in a hotel, promising her that after that they would go to Siem Reap. There the woman trafficker sold her virginity to a man and forced her to stay with an other man for 3 nights. After that, instead of bringing her to Siem Reap, she sold her to a brothel at the village Sasda on the Thai border. There Sarom was locked in and forced to take 8-10 customers every night. To keep her awake and cheerful, the brother owner gave her drugs. These made her not wanting to eat or sleep and she was feeling happy without thinking any more. She was taking the drug every 3 days with the money she made of her tips. There were 14 girls in the brothel but only she and one more girl were underaged. She was afraid to escape because the owner of the brothel belonged to the military police and when some girls managed to escape, they were quickly caught and badly beaten when they were brought back. Eventually she managed to contact a relative of hers by borrowing a phone from a client and this way the operation for her rescuing started. On March 2007 and after she had spent 8 months in the brothel, the combination of a court decision, police pressure and the efforts of the NGO made the brothel owner release her. .Since then she is in the rehabilitation center, happy to be rescued but also very sad that all this happened, blaming herself for following the trafficker. She is trying to forget but she can not and instead she escapes in to her music, any music that she can hear from he
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  • JUNKO KAYASHIGE.  Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor.  Painter. Her uncle with his family.
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  • TOYAMA MEDICINE.Display of the making of medicine in "Kanaoka residence" in Toyama city..Kanaoka Residence is a rare museum in Japan that preserves and exhibits a lot of materials of the 300-year history of Toyama?s medicine business as well as a wide range of materials relating to Japan's pharmaceutical industry. Its main building retains the characteristic structure of a medicine shop from the early Meiji Era. Araya (family's guesthouse) is an all-cypress building that shows a traditional wooden structure..Toyama prefecture is located near the center of Japan and is approximately the same distance from the three largest cities in Japan-Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka. Toyama's pharmaceutical tradition has a more than 300 years history. As it is located on the Japan sea, it is facing China and has been an importer of traditional Chinese medicine knowledge which it developed through the years. There are now approximately 100 manufactures and over 100 factories in Toyama in terms of pharmaceutical products and Toyama prefecture acquires a steady reputation as Japan's medicine manufacturing base.
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  • TOYAMA MEDICINE.Old style medicine shop display inside "Kanaoka residence" in Toyama city.  .Kanaoka Residence is a rare museum in Japan that preserves and exhibits a lot of materials of the 300-year history of Toyama's medicine business as well as a wide range of materials relating to Japan's pharmaceutical industry. Its main building retains the characteristic structure of a medicine shop from the early Meiji Era. Araya (family's guesthouse) is an all-cypress building that shows a traditional wooden structure..Toyama prefecture is located near the center of Japan and is approximately the same distance from the three largest cities in Japan-Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka. Toyama's pharmaceutical tradition has a more than 300 years history. As it is located on the Japan sea, it is facing China and has been an importer of traditional Chinese medicine knowledge which it developed through the years. There are now approximately 100 manufactures and over 100 factories in Toyama in terms of pharmaceutical products and Toyama prefecture acquires a steady reputation as Japan's medicine manufacturing base.
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  • Family in Uji city south of Kyoto. The last 10 chapters of The Genji are set in and around what was then the wild and remote area of Uji..
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  • The house where writer Lefkadios Hern lived in Matsue city.<br />
Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was an open-minded writer and world-traveller who settled in Matsue as an English teacher in 1890. There, he met his wife, daughter to a samurai family, and lived in a simple but beautiful traditional Japanese house on Shiomi Nawate Street, north of Matsue Castle. His former residence is now open to the public, and located next to it is the Memorial Museum dedicated to his life and his works.
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  • The house where writer Lefkadios Hern lived in Matsue city.<br />
Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was an open-minded writer and world-traveller who settled in Matsue as an English teacher in 1890. There, he met his wife, daughter to a samurai family, and lived in a simple but beautiful traditional Japanese house on Shiomi Nawate Street, north of Matsue Castle. His former residence is now open to the public, and located next to it is the Memorial Museum dedicated to his life and his works.
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  • Family at vvIctoria square.<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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  • Refugee family that spent the night at the port. They didn't have a tent and they used carton boxes to protect their young son from the cold. <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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  • Alsheikh family around the little food they could get during the food distribution. They come from Aleppo in Syria where the father worked as a gynaecologist until his hospital was bombed by the government forces after it was occupied by the Islamic State army. There are more than 10 groups plus the government forces fighting in Aleppo. They worried about their children’s future so they decided to leave their country where IS is forcing children to leaned how to fight. His life was also in danger if IS could find out that he was a doctor there. Already his wife’s brother who is travelling with them (in the back), had been injured by a bullet. The route they followed was: from Aleppo to Azaz by car, then  they walked for 21km to the border with Turkey, after crossing they walked for 10 more km until the first village Kilis, then they went to Urfa by a small bus they rented, then traveled for 36 hours by local bus to Izmir where they met the smugglers who arranged for them to go to Greece. They brought them 70km north of Izmir where they crossed by boat to Mytilene island. That was three days ago and they have been in the camp for 2 days while they are waiting for their registration papers so that they can continue their trip. They thought that they would find better conditions in Greece so they where quite disappointed. Their final destination is Germany. <br />
Refugee camp Kara Tepe near Mytilene city. It hosts Syrian refugees who are waiting for their registration papers that will allow them to stay in Greece for some time till they can move to an other European country.
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  • Alsheikh family around the little food they could get during the food distribution. They come from Aleppo in Syria where the father worked as a gynaecologist until his hospital was bombed by the government forces after it was occupied by the Islamic State army. There are more than 10 groups plus the government forces fighting in Aleppo. They worried about their children’s future so they decided to leave their country where IS is forcing children to leaned how to fight. His life was also in danger if IS could find out that he was a doctor there. Already his wife’s brother who is travelling with them (in the back), had been injured by a bullet. The route they followed was: from Aleppo to Azaz by car, then  they walked for 21km to the border with Turkey, after crossing they walked for 10 more km until the first village Kilis, then they went to Urfa by a small bus they rented, then traveled for 36 hours by local bus to Izmir where they met the smugglers who arranged for them to go to Greece. They brought them 70km north of Izmir where they crossed by boat to Mytilene island. That was three days ago and they have been in the camp for 2 days while they are waiting for their registration papers so that they can continue their trip. They thought that they would find better conditions in Greece so they where quite disappointed. Their final destination is Germany. <br />
Refugee camp Kara Tepe near Mytilene city. It hosts Syrian refugees who are waiting for their registration papers that will allow them to stay in Greece for some time till they can move to an other European country.
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  • Pataw (47) has been living in the camp for 7 years. He used to live at the Karen State in Myanmar/Burma and  for 3 years he was fighting with the Karen Liberation Arm. He was injured when during an offence towards the Burmese army he fell on a landmine. Then he was helped to escape. He lives inside the building of the Karen Handicap Welfare Association in Mae La camp. He has 3 children from 9 to 20 years old still living in Myanmar. He hopes that one day there will be freedom so that he ca return to his country and his family. .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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  • Dr HIROSHI MARUYA. Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor. Honorary doctor of Kyoritsu Hospital and poet. COPY of an old family photo. Dr Maruya is the boy with hte glasses and above him, the picture of the brother who was at the war as a solder.
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  • TOYAMA MEDICINE.Basic material for producing traditional medicine, displayed in "Kanaoka residence" in Toyama city. From left to right: 1. ?? pronounced as "denshichi" is a kind of ginnseng, 2. ?? pronounced as " borei" is a kind of oyster, 3. ?? pronounced as "yuutan" is black bear's bile and it is a very precious ingredient in Chinese medicine. Currently in Japan it is illegal to hunt bears for their bile or to sell bear's bile, unless under a special license. The ingredient that has replaced it in traditional medicine, is produced synthetically in laboratories of traditional medicine pharmaceutical companies. In China it is still possible to get real bear's bile and animal's rights organizations protest against the cruel ways with which the bile is extracted from living bears through years of keeping them in captivity in bile farms.  Kanaoka Residence is a rare museum in Japan that preserves and exhibits a lot of materials of the 300-year history of Toyama's medicine business as well as a wide range of materials relating to Japan's pharmaceutical industry. Its main building retains the characteristic structure of a medicine shop from the early Meiji Era. Araya (family's guesthouse) is an all-cypress building that shows a traditional wooden structure.Toyama prefecture is located near the center of Japan and is approximately the same distance from the three largest cities in Japan-Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka. Toyama's pharmaceutical tradition has a more than 300 years history. As it is located on the Japan sea, it is facing China and has been an importer of traditional Chinese medicine knowledge which it developed through the years. There are now approximately 100 manufactures and over 100 factories in Toyama in terms of pharmaceutical products and Toyama prefecture acquires a steady reputation as Japan's medicine manufacturing base.
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  • TOYAMA MEDICINE.Old style medicine shop display inside "Kanaoka residence" in Toyama city.  .Kanaoka Residence is a rare museum in Japan that preserves and exhibits a lot of materials of the 300-year history of Toyama's medicine business as well as a wide range of materials relating to Japan's pharmaceutical industry. Its main building retains the characteristic structure of a medicine shop from the early Meiji Era. Araya (family's guesthouse) is an all-cypress building that shows a traditional wooden structure..Toyama prefecture is located near the center of Japan and is approximately the same distance from the three largest cities in Japan-Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka. Toyama's pharmaceutical tradition has a more than 300 years history. As it is located on the Japan sea, it is facing China and has been an importer of traditional Chinese medicine knowledge which it developed through the years. There are now approximately 100 manufactures and over 100 factories in Toyama in terms of pharmaceutical products and Toyama prefecture acquires a steady reputation as Japan's medicine manufacturing base.
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  • The house where writer Lefkadios Hern lived in Matsue city.<br />
Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was an open-minded writer and world-traveller who settled in Matsue as an English teacher in 1890. There, he met his wife, daughter to a samurai family, and lived in a simple but beautiful traditional Japanese house on Shiomi Nawate Street, north of Matsue Castle. His former residence is now open to the public, and located next to it is the Memorial Museum dedicated to his life and his works.
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  • The house where writer Lefkadios Hern lived in Matsue city.<br />
Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was an open-minded writer and world-traveller who settled in Matsue as an English teacher in 1890. There, he met his wife, daughter to a samurai family, and lived in a simple but beautiful traditional Japanese house on Shiomi Nawate Street, north of Matsue Castle. His former residence is now open to the public, and located next to it is the Memorial Museum dedicated to his life and his works.
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  • The house where writer Lefkadios Hern lived in Matsue city.<br />
Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was an open-minded writer and world-traveller who settled in Matsue as an English teacher in 1890. There, he met his wife, daughter to a samurai family, and lived in a simple but beautiful traditional Japanese house on Shiomi Nawate Street, north of Matsue Castle. His former residence is now open to the public, and located next to it is the Memorial Museum dedicated to his life and his works.
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  • The house where writer Lefkadios Hern lived in Matsue city.<br />
Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was an open-minded writer and world-traveller who settled in Matsue as an English teacher in 1890. There, he met his wife, daughter to a samurai family, and lived in a simple but beautiful traditional Japanese house on Shiomi Nawate Street, north of Matsue Castle. His former residence is now open to the public, and located next to it is the Memorial Museum dedicated to his life and his works.
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  • The house where writer Lefkadios Hern lived in Matsue city.<br />
Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was an open-minded writer and world-traveller who settled in Matsue as an English teacher in 1890. There, he met his wife, daughter to a samurai family, and lived in a simple but beautiful traditional Japanese house on Shiomi Nawate Street, north of Matsue Castle. His former residence is now open to the public, and located next to it is the Memorial Museum dedicated to his life and his works.
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  • The house where writer Lefkadios Hern lived in Matsue city.<br />
Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was an open-minded writer and world-traveller who settled in Matsue as an English teacher in 1890. There, he met his wife, daughter to a samurai family, and lived in a simple but beautiful traditional Japanese house on Shiomi Nawate Street, north of Matsue Castle. His former residence is now open to the public, and located next to it is the Memorial Museum dedicated to his life and his works.
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  • The Yakobi family came from Ghazni city in Afghanistan. The father is a tailor and had a shop selling fabrics but they decided to leave because life there was dangerous. Explosions were happening almost every day and they were also worried about their children’s safety and whether they could go to school. They have been travelling for a month. They left Afghanistan by crossing to Iran where they were hit by the police at the border. They crossed to Greece via Mytilene island and they want to go to Germany. <br />
Refugees arrive at Eidomeni border by bus and some times on foot. There they can cross to the republic of Macedonia on foot.
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  • The Zedan family among other refugees, in front of the bus to Eidomeni border.<br />
Refugees often arrive to Thessaloniki by train and then they go to the intercity bus station to board on the bus to Eidomeni border where they can cross to the Republic of Macedonia on foot.
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  • The Hassan family came from Kabul city in Afghanistan. They left the country because they had no work and no security. Their children are 2,5 and 5 years old and they have been travelling for 4 months. They crossed to Greece via Samos island. They now are waiting to board the bus to Eidomeni border. <br />
Refugees often arrive to Thessaloniki by train and then they go to the intercity bus station to board on the bus to Eidomeni border where they can cross to the Republic of Macedonia on foot.
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  • Afghani family in Victoria square in Athens<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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  • Syrian family near Victoria square in Athens, waiting to board a bus to the border with the Republic of Macedonia.<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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  • Rahmatullah (24, on the left) is travelling together with his middle brother Aziz (21, on the right). He is fluent in English as he used to work as a translator for the American army. He left Afghanistan once and lived in the US for two years until he was asked to leave the country because of a fight he had had with a US solder in Afghanistan. He said that what happened was that he stopped the US solder when he entered a house and tried to rape a young Afghani mother. He had to return to Afghanistan. He stayed there for two years but he often received threats because Afghanis saw him as someone who had collaborated with the “infidel”. Six months ago they attacked and injured his younger brother with a hand-grenade, mistaking him for Rahmatullah. He and his brother Aziz left Afghanistan 45 days ago and crossed to Greece via Turkey. Their final destination is Denmark where they already have members of their family living there. <br />
Moria refugee camp is a bit further out of Mytilene city and it is divided in two sections. The inner part is well organised with buildings and police guarding it, and the outer part where mainly Afghan refugees live in tents and is purely guarded with chaotic situations, mainly during food distribution, frequently occur.
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  • Askhari family who just landed in Mytilene island are from Kunduz city in Afghanistan. They are travelling together with their two children, the husband’s brother and the wife’s brother. They left Afghanistan because after the leader of the city died, killing started by the Taliban and there was chaos. They traveled for 4 months via Iran and Turkey before they crossed to Greece. Their final destination is Norway because they think they can live there without much worry. <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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  • Small boat crossing to Malaysia in Sungai Klolok town on the south border of Thailand. Many people who live near the border in both countries have a special permission to cross back and forth through the border as they have family members in both sides or they need to cross often for their business.
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  • Akha family. Father giving his son a wash at the Akha village Huei Naam Kun that is located in the mountains near Chiang Rai.
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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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  • Esther Htoo (56) is ethnic Karen from Insei town near Rangoon. She came to Mae La refugee camp in 2004, together with her two sons. She hopes that her family will be accepted by the US government to relocated there as refugees..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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  • JUNKO KAYASHIGE.  Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor.  Painter. COPY: Old photo with all the family together. Picture shot before one brother went to war as a solder. Junko is the little girl at the bottom left.
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  • TOYAMA MEDICINE.Basic materials for the production of traditional medicine, displayed in "Kanaoka residence", in Toyama city. From left to wright: 1. ??? Chinese medicine which's name is translated as "the knee of a mountain bull" and it is pronounced: "sen goshitsu". It's function is related to the flow of blood, 2. ??? pronounced: "yabu goshitsu", a Chinese medicine goshitsu as it comes from the bush plant, 3. ?? pronounced as "ninjin" is the Asian "ginseng", 4. ??? pronounced as "hamaboufuu" is the "Glehnia Littoralis" a species of umbellifer used in Chinese medicine. Kanaoka Residence is a rare museum in Japan that preserves and exhibits a lot of materials of the 300-year history of Toyama?s medicine business as well as a wide range of materials relating to Japan's pharmaceutical industry. Its main building retains the characteristic structure of a medicine shop from the early Meiji Era. Araya (family's guesthouse) is an all-cypress building that shows a traditional wooden structure.Toyama prefecture is located near the center of Japan and is approximately the same distance from the three largest cities in Japan-Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka. Toyama's pharmaceutical tradition has a more than 300 years history. As it is located on the Japan sea, it is facing China and has been an importer of traditional Chinese medicine knowledge which it developed through the years. There are now approximately 100 manufactures and over 100 factories in Toyama in terms of pharmaceutical products and Toyama prefecture acquires a steady reputation as Japan's medicine manufacturing base.
    21_TOYAMA_MEDICINE_7496.jpg
  • TOYAMA MEDICINE.Front view of Kanaoka residence in Toyama city..Kanaoka Residence is a rare museum in Japan that preserves and exhibits a lot of materials of the 300-year history of Toyama's medicine business as well as a wide range of materials relating to Japan's pharmaceutical industry. Its main building retains the characteristic structure of a medicine shop from the early Meiji Era. Araya (family's guesthouse) is an all-cypress building that shows a traditional wooden structure..Toyama prefecture is located near the center of Japan and is approximately the same distance from the three largest cities in Japan-Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka. Toyama's pharmaceutical tradition has a more than 300 years history. As it is located on the Japan sea, it is facing China and has been an importer of traditional Chinese medicine knowledge which it developed through the years. There are now approximately 100 manufactures and over 100 factories in Toyama in terms of pharmaceutical products and Toyama prefecture acquires a steady reputation as Japan's medicine manufacturing base.
    16_TOYAMA_MEDICINE_7457.jpg
  • Gissha and Court Lady Attire exhibited in the Genji museum of Uji city south of Kyoto..The oxen-drawn carriage called 'gissha' is a symbol of the luxurious life in The Tale of Genji. The exhibit includes the patterns drawn on the carriages that would eventually develop into family emblems, as well as a beautiful black-lacquered oxen-drawn carriage. It also features the attire of a court lady, 'juni-hitoe' (twelve layers of kimono), with carefully restored courtly colors..
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  • Son Rathany (14) (R) and Rous Mach (15) (L) who are both working as prostitutes, in the room where they sleep and sometimes bring clients, in a slam behind the "building" in Phnom Penh. They both started working as prostitutes about half a year ago. Son after her family broke up and Rous after being tricked to start going to bars by a divorced female friend of hers. They take 1-2 clients a night. Rous goes mainly to "Martini Pub" a bar where foreign men go to pick up prostitutes. Son looks very young so it is more difficult for her to go in the bars but she refused to say how she finds customers.
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  • The house where writer Lefkadios Hern lived in Matsue city.<br />
Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was an open-minded writer and world-traveller who settled in Matsue as an English teacher in 1890. There, he met his wife, daughter to a samurai family, and lived in a simple but beautiful traditional Japanese house on Shiomi Nawate Street, north of Matsue Castle. His former residence is now open to the public, and located next to it is the Memorial Museum dedicated to his life and his works.
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  • The house where writer Lefkadios Hern lived in Matsue city.<br />
Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was an open-minded writer and world-traveller who settled in Matsue as an English teacher in 1890. There, he met his wife, daughter to a samurai family, and lived in a simple but beautiful traditional Japanese house on Shiomi Nawate Street, north of Matsue Castle. His former residence is now open to the public, and located next to it is the Memorial Museum dedicated to his life and his works.
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  • Rahmat Qorbani (24) is from Kabul in Afghanistan. He studied photography at the art university of Kabul and he was working as a photographer for Afghani newspapers. His family is educated and his father is a teacher. The little money he was making with his work and the war with the Taliban who recently killed his cousin, scared him and made him decide to leave the country in search for a better future. He came to Greece via Iran and Turkey and his final destination is Ireland as he heard that it is easier for refugees to be accepted there. <br />
Moria refugee camp is a bit further out of Mytilene city and it is divided in two sections. The inner part is well organised with buildings and police guarding it, and the outer part where mainly Afghan refugees live in tents and is purely guarded with chaotic situations, mainly during food distribution, frequently occur.
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  • The Zedan family came from Edlib in Syria. The father used to work as an electrician and the mother as a french language teacher. They travel with their children that are 5, 6 and 8 years old. They have been travelling for a month and they crossed to Greece from Turkey on a dinghy that landed at Samos island. <br />
Refugees often arrive to Thessaloniki by train and then they go to the intercity bus station to board on the bus to Eidomeni border where they can cross to the Republic of Macedonia on foot.
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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 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Villas of wealthy Turkish families lie on the Bosporus shore..ISTANBUL, Androniki Christodoulou/WorldPictureNews
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  • LIVING ZEN - HOSHINJI MONASTERY, OBAMA-JAPAN..Names of the families that sponsor the monastery.
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  • Sotouta beach near Shimoda town in Izu peninsula. Izu is a popular get away from Tokyo and is considered to have some of the best beaches. Sotoura is one of the smalest ones but the landscape is typical Izu with the almost tropical vegitation. The crowd on the beach is mainly families.
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  • Tibetan families consider an honor to have a child tha choses to become a monk..LAMBRANG MONASTERY IN XIAHE - CHINA.copyright: Androniki Christodoulou.
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  • Huei Naam Kun village is located in the mountains near Chiang Rai. There is no public transportation for going there and it's 51 families live a very traditional stylle. There was no electricity either until the World bank offered them a few years ago some sollar panels and now they can use electricity for a few hours every day. The village has always been peaceful but because of drug armies that were trying to force them to grow opium, the village had to relocate 6 times to escape them. It was originaly in Burma and it has been in the curent location in Thailand for the last 28 years.
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  • Zushi is a beach near Tokyo quite popular with families and young people and can get very crowded during weekends or summer holidays.
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  • Mother with child. Zushi is a beach near Tokyo quite popular with families and young people and can get very crowded during weekends or summer holidays.
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  • Restrictions for the beach.<br />
Zushi is a beach near Tokyo quite popular with families and young people and can get very crowded during weekends or summer holidays.
    ZUSHI-7629.jpg
  • Sotouta beach near Shimoda town in Izu peninsula. Izu is a popular get away from Tokyo and is considered to have some of the best beaches. Sotoura is one of the smalest ones but the landscape is typical Izu with the almost tropical vegitation. The crowd on the beach is mainly families.
    IZU-SOTOURA-2156.jpg
  • Rotan Batu, also known informaly as "Widdows village" started functioning in 2004 as a project that was funded and created by Thailand's Queen Sirikit, who donated 20m baht ($514,000) of her own money to purchase the land on which the village is now located. Its purpose is to give shelter and work to mainly Muslim widows who lost their husbands during the insurgency in the south of Thailand. They now live there about 450 people, the widows together with other members of their families. The village is self sufficient as there is enough farm-land where they produce the vegetables and fruit for themselves and sell the extra production in local markets. They also create handcrafts which are sold as souvenirs in other parts of Thailand giving them some extra income. The village is considered quite safe but it is guarded by solders 24 h a day to make sure no attack happens there.
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  • Women farmng in Rotan Batu..Rotan Batu, also known informaly as "Widdows village" started functioning in 2004 as a project that was funded and created by Thailand's Queen Sirikit, who donated 20m baht ($514,000) of her own money to purchase the land on which the village is now located. Its purpose is to give shelter and work to mainly Muslim widows who lost their husbands during the insurgency in the south of Thailand. They now live there about 450 people, the widows together with other members of their families. The village is self sufficient as there is enough farm-land where they produce the vegetables and fruit for themselves and sell the extra production in local markets. They also create handcrafts which are sold as souvenirs in other parts of Thailand giving them some extra income. The village is considered quite safe but it is guarded by solders 24 h a day to make sure no attack happens there.
    57_THAILAND139a.jpg
  • Zushi is a beach near Tokyo quite popular with families and young people and can get very crowded during weekends or summer holidays.
    ZUSHI-7785.jpg
  • Zushi is a beach near Tokyo quite popular with families and young people and can get very crowded during weekends or summer holidays.
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  • Food stall. Zushi is a beach near Tokyo quite popular with families and young people and can get very crowded during weekends or summer holidays.
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  • Inflatable floats in different shapes are very popular in Japanese beaches as people usually are just floating or playing with them instead of swimming. Zushi is a beach near Tokyo quite popular with families and young people and can get very crowded during weekends or summer holidays.
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  • Playing with the muddy sand. Zushi is a beach near Tokyo quite popular with families and young people and can get very crowded during weekends or summer holidays.
    ZUSHI-7707.jpg
  • Zushi is a beach near Tokyo quite popular with families and young people and can get very crowded during weekends or summer holidays.
    ZUSHI-7635.jpg
  • Playing with the muddy sand. Zushi is a beach near Tokyo quite popular with families and young people and can get very crowded during weekends or summer holidays.
    ZUSHI-7663.jpg
  • Sotouta beach near Shimoda town in Izu peninsula. Izu is a popular get away from Tokyo and is considered to have some of the best beaches. Sotoura is one of the smalest ones but the landscape is typical Izu with the almost tropical vegitation. The crowd on the beach is mainly families.
    IZU-SOTOURA-2157.jpg
  • Sotouta beach near Shimoda town in Izu peninsula. Izu is a popular get away from Tokyo and is considered to have some of the best beaches. Sotoura is one of the smalest ones but the landscape is typical Izu with the almost tropical vegitation. The crowd on the beach is mainly families.
    IZU-SOTOURA-2147.jpg
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