Today we had a lecture about environmental disaster in Japan and the policies that were created from them. They had many disasters in the 50's an 60's from contaminated water, air and mercury problems that were created from their factories. After many victims developed diseases or disorders the government stepped in to create anti pollution laws that would prevent these disasters in the future. This spawned a huge industry of pollution control companies that would make the products needed to control the pollution output of factories.
In the afternoon we went to the Edo museum (pictured). This museum told the history of the Tokyo area and how it developed into the capital of the country. They had many artifacts and mini city models on how the city looked hundreds of years ago. They showed the development of Tokyo throughout the 1900's with artifacts of things such as tv's, car's, kabuki models, etc.
After this I went to Ginza to explore the area (pictured). It is a massive shopping district that is like many NY times squares put together. They have really nice shops and some nice little stores that sell things from chopsticks to swords. I went to a bakery that sold mini bagels that were stuffed with sweet beans, melon, and cheese. I bought a white bean and black bean stuffed bagel, it was awesome. I also had Subway in Ginza and it was pretty good and very busy. They had some different items on the menu like shrimp subs and they don't put cheese on the subs unless you pay for it.
That night I went to karaoke with two of the people in my group and six of the Japanese students. It was a lot of fun but I had no idea what the Japanese students were singing since the words were all in their language.
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