JAPAN -- 1

+ We are planning to visit Japan and China in the fall of 2012.  Mary has been invited to speak at Keio University by a colleague on the Nursing faculty who was a Visiting Professor at the University of Rochester 2009-2010.  In an email she told her colleagues here that "Personally, we are so so OK, but it is not OK for our country, Japan."

+ Here are a few websites as I begin to contemplate traveling in Japan in the fall of 2012:
• Mt Fuji > http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2172.html
• Lonely Planet Guide > http://www.lonelyplanet.com/japan
• Guide to Odawara Area in Kanagawa Prefecture > http://www.kanagawa-kankou.or.jp/english/area/odawara.html
• Fuji-Hakone-Izu NP (Wikitravel) > http://wikitravel.org/en/Fuji-Hakone-Izu_National_Park
• Keio University > http://www.keio.ac.jp/english/about_keio/index.html
• Sacred Places > http://www.onmarkproductions.com/html/holy-mountains-sacred-shrines.html
• Japan Times > http://www.japantimes.co.jp/