{"id":1860,"date":"2023-05-26T14:21:13","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T12:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"urn:uuid:361ac951-a7be-4e3c-a15c-3001420c1acb"},"modified":"2023-05-30T08:47:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T06:47:08","slug":"the-other-side-of-the-world-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fhgr.ch\/international\/2023\/05\/26\/the-other-side-of-the-world-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"The other side of the world &#8211; Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"is-style-lead\">Exchange Semester @Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Japan<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-default\">Japan. Land of the rising sun. Samurai, Sumo, huge cities, ground-breaking new technologies, weird (mostly) delicious food and lots and lots of people. What a change of scenery when you grew up in Switzerland! 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