We just came back from a 2 1/2 week trip to Japan. To say it was "incredible" is an understatement! It was like a dream- Tokyo, Nagoya, Kyoto. The food was amazing, the people so polite and respectful, the cities, the trains, everything was a marvel!
Years ago I had picked up a couple discarded picture books that told distinctly Japanese stories. It was fun rereading them with a new appreciation. In Taro and the Tofu, a little boy faces a timeless dilemma- to return the extra money that was accidentally given to him. We came home with extra Japanese yen and both the 10 piece and 50 piece coins are the same shape, with a hole in the middle. So the plot of Taro, and the mistake of extra money made perfect sense! It was also neat to see the drawings of the village and the marketplace and recognize them from similar places we had been to while in Japan.
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