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Kamakura is a very popular tourist destination

Great Buddha Statue of Kamakura, Tokokuin Temple

The Great Buddha Statue of Kamakura was not the main draw for our trip to Kamakura...

Japan Janet McKelpin

Bruce Lee- Father of the Martial Arts Film

The Stars and Styles of Martial Arts

Every cinematic genre has always been characterized by the stars that make it famous, from comedy...

Japan / Thailand / China Will Raus

Encroaching Upon the Floating World: An Interview with Artist Michael Knigin

While scouring the World Wide Web in hopes of purchasing a rare, original Hiroshige woodblock pri...

Japan Celeste Heiter

How to Make Japanese Green Tea

The green tea that the Japanese people drink on a daily basis is quite different from the tea use...

Japan Celeste Heiter

Seventy-eight-year-old fortune-teller Terutsugu Eguma attends to a customer on the street of Ginza shopping district of Tokyo.

The fortune-tellers of Tokyo

* * * Every night when the offices close and the shops pull down their shutters, the fortune-tell...

Japan AFP/Niels Planel

Kyoto is a great city for bike riding. It is a big flat valley scooped out between small rugged m...

Japan Frank Lev

Take a ride on the tram, Tokyo Disneyland.

Tokyo Disneyland for the Child at Heart

On a Christmas visit to Disneyland, the author finds out it is both for children and the child at...

Japan Puspa Malar

Me and Aristolochia westlandii at Kyoto Botanical Garden

Kyoto Botanical Garden

A walk in the Kyoto Botanical Garden is nice, especially on a rainy day or Monday when all museum...

Japan victor wong

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Film Review: Satoyama: Japan's Secret Watergarden

Satoyama: Japan's Secret Watergarden was shown during the 28th International Wildlife Film Festiv...

Japan Dawn Stanton

Sakurajima Island, Japan Tsukiyomi-jinja Shrine

Surviving Sakurajima

I didn't get erupted upon while on Sakurajima Island. Maybe the volcano was taking a rest (it bei...

Japan Graham Simmons

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Mishima's Last Words: The Sea of Fertility Part I

Telling Bobby Kennedy to go fuck himself at the White House, wrote Gore Vidal in 1971, "is trivia...

Japan Kenneth Champeon

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Gangsters Not Welcome

Japan gets tough on yakuza gangsters...

Japan AFP/Frank Zeller

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Kawabata Country

Review of Kawabata's writings: Snow Country and Palm-of-the-Hand Stories.

Japan Kenneth Champeon

American Pastime

Film Review: American Pastime

Life throws Lyle Nomura a curve ball when he lands in a WWII Japanese internment camp instead of ...

Japan Celeste Heiter

Sakura viewing in Japan

A week of Ethereal Cherry Blossom in Japan

Time it well if you want to see the best Cherry Blossoms in Japan. With a little bit of luck aga...

Japan Victor Wong

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Japan's Yokohama Curry Museum

Yokohama, Japan, March 26, 2004 - Anyone savoring the image of Japan as the land of plain white r...

Japan AFP/Ryan Nakashima

Detail of a Japanese print by Hokusai Katsushika (1760-1849) 'Mount Fuji, wave', part of French Hugette Beres' collection of Japanese prints, drawings and books.

Megasale of rare Japanese prints

* * * * * PARIS, Nov 23, 2002 - It is the last major collection of Japanese prints still in priva...

Japan AFP/Annick Chapoy

Visitors snapping photos of the ancient cedars in primeval forests on the southern island of Yakushima in Kagoshima prefecture, Japan.

Yakushima, Japan

* * * A generation ago, a battle was successfully waged on this rugged island to preserve what wa...

Japan AFP/Shingo Ito

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Japanese girls go crazy for foreign designer goods

Erina Kobayashi has been waiting since the previous night for a Tokyo warehouse packed with nearl...

Japan AFP/Francoise Kadri

To Have and Have Not: Southeast Asian Raw Materials and the Origins of the Pacific War

No Blood For Rubber

Review of Jonathan Marshall's To Have and Have Not: Southeast Asian Raw Materials and the Origin...

Japan / Vietnam / Singapore Kenneth Champeon

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