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A Town Where Cicadas Sing

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A tree where a cicada is supposed to be.

It may be because July has arrived. Again, this year, from somewhere, I began hearing cicadas singing, “Meen, meen.” It is the moment when I think the summer has come again this year, as I hear the cicadas after leaving the house. When I walked for a while, I suddenly noticed something. For some reason,

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History / Lettering and Printing / Local

Prologue to the first issue of The Print Town Tokyo, “The City Where Intellect and People Gather.”

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A view from JR station at Iidabashi, Shinjuku

At the beginning of the Showa 40s (late 1960s), I was born in Tokyo and grew up in Shinjuku Ward. My hometown is in the Ushigome area of Shinjuku Ward, and my family runs a printing-related company there. The Ushigome area includes towns such as Waseda, Ichigaya, and Kagurazaka, and there are still many printing-related

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