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Intersections
OCTOBER 25, 2005

Altering History
OCTOBER 27, 2005

Awesome Tsukiji
OCTOBER 28, 2005

Shichi-Go-San
NOVEMBER 1, 2005

Takayama Streetscapes
NOVEMBER 1, 2005

Word From Takayama
NOVEMBER 2, 2005

A Return to the (Rural) Past
NOVEMBER 2, 2005

Hiroshima 2005
NOVEMBER 6, 2005

"Charming Kitty" Debuts
NOVEMBER 5, 2005

Scrapbook Images
NOVEMBER 6, 2005

Field Notes: Japan 2005

This series of reports recounts observations made by Lee Makela while acting as Study Leader for "Japan By Train", a Study Abroad Travel Seminar sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution of Washington, D.C.

The seminar program was conducted in Tokyo, Matsumoto, Takayama, Hiroshima, Miyajima, Kurashiki, Tamatsukuri Onsen and Kyoto, Japan between October 25th and November 5th of 2005.

Click on any of the report titles in the column 
at the left to continue.
This report, detailing on-site observations made in Japan between October 25, 2005 and November 5, 2005, has been prepared by Lee A. Makela (l.makela@csuohio.edu) for the use of interested friends, family and students at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, especially those who enrolled in HIS 371, The History of Japan and HIS 373, Contemporary Japan in Historical Perspective, during the Fall Semester of the 2005 - 2006 Academic Year; please contact Dr. Makela with any comments.