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san jose japantown

Nov 17, 2008
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Here is my aunt's stuff after me and the other guy set it all up. Looks good doesn't it?

Designs

The show was in the gym of this Buddist temple.

Temple

And the temple was in San Jose Japantown, the cutest Japantown I've ever been to.

Japantown

It was definitely very cool to see what remains of the established Japanese American community all come out. Which means a whole bunch of old genki peeps came out. Maybe things sort of started to die down after the concentration camps for Japanese Americans all those years ago. We're a much more scattered, diluted group these days. One lady told me it was her 88th birthday next week, and another lady was 91 years old! They were so happy and smiley and energetic and healthy. Believe me, if their blood line stayed in Japan, they would have been defeated by the world long ago. Old people are OLD in Japan.

And then this is me after the whole ordeal. Very tired indeed. Nice view of my scalp though, and my roots aren't that bed yet.