text: Despite the concrete sprawl of Japan 's postwar urban development , you can still find tranquillity in a brilliant-green , moss-covered temple garden or in the alcove of a traditional restaurant with its tatami-mat flooring , shielded from the other guests by shoji ( paper screens ) remnants of a not-so-distant past .
  
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  Japan has been modernised but still contains fragments of it 's history .