I was anexpat during the time I lived inJapan. I spent a lot of time visiting cool places such asItsukushima Shrine,Hondōri,Etajima,Matsue inShimane Prefecture, theKurobe Gorge,Shōbara,Miyoshi,Mihara,Kure, andTokyo.Hiroshima has some amazing things to see, including theHiroshima Prefectural Art Museum (where I saw the originalThe Persistence of Memory bySalvador Dali) andShukkei-en (an amazing and peaceful garden which is right next door to the museum). I also highly recommend that anyone who can get there should visit theHiroshima Peace Memorial Museum located within theHiroshima Peace Memorial Park. The park also contains theHiroshima Peace Memorial (or "Atomic Bomb Dome"), theChildren's Peace Monument (which is often draped withorigami cranes), and a statue in honor ofSadako Sasaki (also often draped with origami cranes). You can also visit theHiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims there. TheHiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony is held in the park every year on August 6, the anniversary of theatomic bombing of Hiroshima. I rode trains regularly on several different lines, including theGeibi Line, theKisuki Line, theFukuen Line, theHiroden Main Line (the main street car line inHiroshima), and theSan'yō Main Line. I created and expanded many of the articles on the stations of the Geibi Line (as well as the article on the line itself). There was (don't know if it's still there) an awesome homemade ice cream shop about 20-30 minutes' walk fromBingo-Ochiai Station. I lovemanjū (especially Momiji manjū), Hiroshima-styleokonomiyaki (the best kind! Check outOkonomi-mura if you go to Hiroshima), and most kinds ofsushi. After absorbing all I could of theculture during my stay, I returned to theuntamed wilderness of thewild, wild west. I currently enjoy almost anything about Japan, includinganime,manga, mostJapanese food, andtrains. In fact, I like Japan so much, I made aWikiProject for it. I also enjoy working on an eclectic mix of other topics, including artistsWilliam Bliss Baker,Arnold Friberg,Adalbert J. Volck,Kevin Wasden,Howard Tayler, andStephan Martinière, poet and authorMichael R. Collings, critic and authorGilles Poitras, authorToren Smith, and cultural anthropologistRachel Thorn. I regularly readLeading Edge magazine, I thinkAgnes Lum was the perfect firstClarion Girl, and I love the styling ofKaratsu andKutani ware. One of my biggest achievements here is bringingPortal:Speculative fiction tofeatured portal status. It took many months of a lot of work, most of it done by myself (though I greatly appreciate the help of those few who assisted in some way). I greatly improved theBoshin War andManzanar articles so that they could retain their featured status. I also enjoy reading and watchingscience fiction andfantasy, listening to all kinds ofmusic (really, almost every kind out there), andreading in general. I have a strange fondness forHinamatsuri. I especially enjoytechnical writing andeditingonline material in order tomake it better. I also enjoy graphic design andtaking pictures and making images for Wikipedia. I likeuser boxes. I even made a couple of them myself. Feel free to use any of the ones I created, or go to theuser boxes page and see what's already there. Stuff I helped with: Committed identity:654bb5cf8720667292d580d1f5d438ae19c0e748a4f48b6132f1ca577ff24250295c239730b35a62161d6bc4b6182c31bacb0ccd10ae1b2263a4b4ed5bb67ebe is theSHA-512commitment to this user's real-life identity. EditingUserspace drafts:
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Selected articles I've worked onAncestry.com, Inc., formerlyThe Generations Network, is anInternet company based inProvo,Utah,USA, and the largestfor-profitgenealogy company in the world. They run a network of genealogy andfamily-related websites, listed below. In addition to their main sites, Ancestry.com, Inc., operates FamilyHistory.com, which contains basic information for free, but mostly serves as a portal to Ancestry.com. They also publishAncestry Magazine and formerly publishedGenealogical Computing. They have a presence in theUnited Kingdom under the name Ancestry.com Inc., whose offices are located inHammersmith,London,England andMunich,Germany. In 1990, Paul Allen (not to be confused with Microsoft cofounderPaul Allen) and Dan Taggart, two Brigham Young University (BYU) graduates, foundedInfobases and began offeringLDS (Latter-day Saints — Mormon) publications onfloppy disks. Allen's brother Curt and his brother-in-law, Brad Pelo, had foundedFolio Corporation, where Paul Allen had worked in 1988. Infobases chose to use the Folio infobase technology which Allen was familiar with as the basis for their products. The first products were floppy disks andcompact disks sold from the back seat of their car. In 1994 Infobases was named amongInc. magazine’s 500 fastest-growing companies. Their first offering on CD was the LDS Collectors Edition, released in April, 1995, selling for $299.95, which was offered in an on-line version in August 1995. On January 1, 1997, Infobases' parent company,Western Standard Publishing, purchased Ancestry, Inc. Stuff I'm involved inPortals I help maintainDid you know... These areDid you know... hooks I submitted (23 articles so far) which have appeared on theMain page.
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