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My first full day in my new town was on August 6, 1990. The day before, a couple of town hall employees had picked me up in Kobe and together we had driven a couple of hours to the small town that would be my home for the next year, Asago, deep in the heart of Southern Japan’s Chugoku Mountains. I was settled into my new home, a spacious, two-story house along side the Maruyama River.
On my 2nd trip to Hiroshima. May 16, 2008.
That night teachers, administrators and PTA luminaries with Asago Middle School, where I would teach for the next year, threw a welcome party for me. It was the first of several welcome parties.
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