Declan Murphy died this morning at 6:25 after a lengthy bout of
fj.life.in-japan. The will states:

>I recall Tokyo being unusually pleasant during Obon since so many
>people head "home" or take advantage of the break. The whole of
>Okazaki is pretty much closed today, as is Toyota etc. About a week
>ago I was told that some parts of Japan don't really observe Obon and
>that its business as usual, but the "sources" of the information were
>fairly FOTB. Aichi is unusually conservative and has a rich buddhist
>tradition, is the degree of "observance" more regional than I
>thought???

Gifu swells to about eleventeen times its normal size, but I think that's
because everyone from the Big City comes up here.


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