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My short japanese trip started from downtown Tokyo, Ueno where my friend Seungchul lives at. He said this area is famous for lots of Korean people's living. One strange thing is I couldn't find many Korean stores around here. Only few of them could be found. Japan has biggest Korean immigrants in the world, but the unique history of immigration of Koreans makes its situation quite different from any other country. Korean peoples are spread all over Japan, now. This makes them hard to be found in Japan. We are not even distinguished from Japanese. From when I arrived at Japan, it was rainy all day. The rainy night of Tokyo was clean but cold while I still remembered nice blue sky of Korea. Lots of people passed right hand side (Japan is left-passing country) and also lots of people smoked on the street. Heavy smokers and drunken people were crowded in the night of Tokyo. I and my friend went a traditional fish market in downtown Tokyo and we're merged into crowd over there. ...

I've got a vacation within last two weeks and couldn't still be recovered from it, now. First few days, I spent most of time to prepare VISA interview which has been on US Embassy at Seoul. There're couple of official doc's that I needed to visit different government offices to get them. (waste of time!) As a result, I got new VISA stamped and returned to the States, safely. My kind friends waited for me that dates and we met on a nice bar located at Myoung-dong. I found myself is the only single among these but they're not changed a lot even after married life. It's always good to have unchanged friends on somewhere. We've drunken a lot and missed the last train of subway but were happy, anyway. One sad news was that Seonghwan's injured on his knee, seriously. His knee muscle has actually been operated and he've waited for its recovering couple of weeks. Poor guy! I didn't agree with his idea which he'll keep enjoying snowboarding on this wi...