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About 300 meters south of the former Yamaichi Hayashi-gumi Silk Manufacturing Office is a hill called Maruyama.
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This is Okaya City, Nagano Prefecture.
Okaya City (*) flourished as a center of the silk industry from the Meiji ...

I visited Shiga Elementary School again the other day, a school that closed in 1990.
In the foreground is a stone ...

The Althing, Iceland’s parliament, is said to be the oldest democratic parliament in the world.
Founded aro ...

In 1863, Norikata Matsudaira, the lord of the Okudono domain in Mikawa Province, moved his domain office to Tanokuchi ...