Vietnam – Hoi An November 25, 2002

The first Happy Buddah we saw. .

Among other crafts in Hoi An, this person makes false teeth.

L And this is a Chinese community temple.

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There was a very strong Chinese community in Hoi An, and they were all traders. The Japanese community was also equally stong, but while there are about 1000 Chinese still in Hoi An (they have lived there for at least 200 years, yet still consider themselves Chinese and still speak Chinese on a daily basis) all the Japanese left in 1737 when the Japanese closed themselves off from the rest of the world. Not only did the Japanese decide to close themselves off, but they required all Japanese people living in other countries to return to Japan. Every one of them in Hoi An went back.

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