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A 2025 Look at Japan’s Etiquette Guide for Travelers

A 2025 Look at Japan’s Etiquette Guide for Travelers So you have a trip to Japan on the horizon, which is frankly a very exciting thing. There’s just this little hum of worry, you know, about accidentally being disrespectful. You want to show you appreciate the culture, and as a matter of fact, that’s a completely normal feeling for travelers. Well, I recently got my hands on a 2025 publication, sort of a guidebook for behavior called, ‘A Path to Greater Joy in Japan Through Its Customs’, and to be honest, it really helps with that exact feeling. This piece …

‘The Story Behind NY’s Evolving Skyline’: A Book Review

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‘The Story Behind NY’s Evolving Skyline’: A Book Review I honestly just got my hands on a pre-release copy of a 2025 book, ‘The Story Behind NY’s Evolving Skyline An Architectural Journey Through History’. You know, I was expecting another stuffy collection of dates and names, pretty much like the other books out there. Anyway, what I found inside was something really different. This book, by a writer named Dr. Aris Thorne, more or less feels like a conversation with someone who genuinely loves the city’s bones. In fact, it is filled with personal accounts and little-known details that sort …