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I have two jobs, I am an Information Architect and I am also a public school teacher.  One of the projects for a 2nd year class last year was to design a poster promoting an area of Japan.  To give the students some help and reference, I designed an example piece based on Osaka.

When I had finished, I realised just how much there is in this city, a lot that is not in the typical tourist guide book, even Japanese language guide books.

I also remembered my first 4 weeks in Osaka and how helpful the fellow guest-house stayers were in telling me about cheap food, cheap things to do and where to go and where not to go.  I was also educated on the dangers of “English bandits”. 

I believe the power of the web, is how it can be used by anyone to help others, to spread information and news.  So after much procrastination on the subject I finally put up my first post “So what’s so great about Osaka” on 26th January.  And that’s the story of how this site came to be.

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