Heading to Tokyo, Part 2

I’ve returned from Tokyo and want to share some additional photographs from my trip.

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Our hotel overlooked this beautiful temple. It is a place of serenity in the midst of the crowded city of Tokyo.

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Here is a view of the front of the temple.

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A monkey god protects the temple.

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These are wishes left by visitors to the temple.

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At the opening of Snoopy Museum Tokyo, we had a reunion of former and current United Media and Sony Creative Properties employees. To my right is Akio Matsunaga and to my left is Wakako Tsunoda and Hiroko Nakamura.

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I’m posing here with Miyoshi Nakayama, the director of Snoopy Museum Tokyo.

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Not only did people like to hug the post; they also liked to draw on it.

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Paige Braddock of Creative Associates with Snoopy Museum curator Daisuke Kusakari.

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On Saturday, Paige Braddock and I spoke to a group of journalists. Miss Yokota was the translator.

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This was an interview with a TV host named Chris. He spoke perfect English, but conducted the interview in Japanese.

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Margo Carrington, the Minister of Public Affairs from the American Embassy, gave a short but very heartfelt tribute to Peanuts. Standing to the left of Paige Braddock are two Schulz Museum employees, Benjamin Peery and Natasha Cochran, who went to Tokyo a week before the opening of Snoopy Museum Tokyo to unpack and install items sent from the Schulz Museum.

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The wall behind the speaker is a history of Sparky’s life in photographs.

–Jean Schulz

 

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