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Japan, Explained

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Look down at the yellow bumpy tiles on your train platform.
Look down at the yellow bumpy tiles on your train platform. A Japanese man named Seiichi Miyake laid the first ones in Okayama in 1967. With his own money. 230 blocks, right in front of a school for the blind. He had just watched a car nearly hit a blind man at a crossing. A friend told him: even through your shoes, your feet can read the ground. So he built a language you walk on. Today those tiles guide blind people through stations and airports all over the world. Most people never learn his name. Are they on the ground where you live?
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A Samurai Loose in Modern America Volume Two cover
Volume Two is out. One hundred later field reports.
Volume Two is live. The next hundred misunderstandings, bound at last.
Read now → NEW
NOBUNAGA samurai icon
🍶 Freshly printed and standing at attention.
Paperback out now. The Kindle edition joins the ranks shortly. All my books in one honorable place.
To the bookstore, swiftly →
NOBUNAGA icon
He fends off bullets for free, but a coffee he cannot refuse.
Your cup keeps this wandering project alive. Thank you, honored friend.
☕ Buy this samurai a coffee

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