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This contemporary garden in the local government office of Tokyo's Azabu district features a granite sea studded with gilded ...
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Monstrous sprwal makes for a smoggy backdrop behind costume-clad actor Kenpachiro Satsuma who once played the movie menace Go...
A human tsunami waits to be drenched by machine-generated waves at a water park near Tokyo, Japan. Equally awash in a human t...
Dueling icons dominate the skyline of Yokohama, where the Landmark Tower rises as if to challenge sacred Mount Fuji. A dizzyi...
Life at the top means an elegant Chiba penthouse for a real estate executive Kazuo Kanatsuna and his wife, Kiyoi. Their gener...
Aboard a yakatabune, a sight-seeing dinner boat, where diners indulge traditional tastes with ample sake. In the distance is ...
The price of progress clouds the air and fouls the water in Kawasaki, where smokestack industries crowd a drab man-made archi...
The casualties of Japan's bust: growing ranks of homeless, who arrange their meager belongings on bayside walkways. Japan's o...
Seductive shelves piled with goods lure shoppers to a Costco outlet in Chiba, where the firm hopes to popularize deep-discoun...
A titanic of public works, the ten-mile-long Aqua line bridge and tunnel, completed in 1997, created the first cross-bay rout...
Japan's Self-Defence-Force crew-members taking their morning exercises on the destroyer Hatsuyuki.
Officers on the destroyer Hatsuyuki train their eyes on other destroyers as the ships conduct maneuvers near a base at Yokosu...
Officers on the destroyer Hatsuyuki train their eyes on other destroyers as the ships conduct maneuvers near a base at Yokosu...
Workers teeter and toil on a giant gamble: the Yokohama convention center. While vacancy rates are high in some areas, fallin...
Japan's infatuation with Americana rises to obvious extremes near Odaiba, where a Statue of Liberty replica stands tall befor...
Mosh-pit mentality overtakes Tokyo during Sanja Matsuri, an annual festival that inspires drumming, whistling and shoving. Re...
M-I-C-K-E-Y and his mate charm a beaming bride and her bashful groom, wed at Tokyo Disneyland. Japan's long post-war occupati...
Traditional labor suits Kiichi Takiguchi, who collects and dries seaweed for sushi. But his work has gotten tougher. Landfill...
A man is covered for a hot sand bath.
A hot sand bath.
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Horin Country Club, Ichihara, Japan Golf sand trap designed like a Japanese garden
Basho celebrated the gauzy green of newly planted rice fields in spring in a haiku—a short, chant-like poem with nature at it...
Though a celebrated poet, Basho yearned for a simple life. On the trail he dressed as a Buddhist monk, perhaps wearing straw-...
A watery moon rises above Nanko lake, reminiscent of the moon views that Basho extolled. Comparing himself to a windblown clo...
The splash of a frog, a cricket chirping from beneath an empty samurai helmet, “the cool fragrance of snow”: Such closely obs...
Shroud-like veils of falling water on the Abukuma River evoke the ghostly presence of past poets whose words kept Basho compa...
A meditative observer, Basho paid heed to nature’s modest dramas, like a leaf floating through reflections in a mountain stre...
Basho’s route led across the Mogami River. When he crossed in July 1689, the river was swollen with rainwater and running dan...
Silhouetted against the surface of the Mogami, a fisherman carries a long bamboo rod, the same kind that was used in Basho’s ...
In his travel diary, Narrow Road to a Far Province, Basho found lyric use for the iris and its brilliant hue. Presented with ...
The poet’s samurai name was Matsuo Munefusa, but we know him by the name he adopted in middle age. That name, Basho, is Japan...
Pine, rock, and sea form an elemental vista along the Sea of Japan, where Basho endured the most difficult stretch of his 168...
A setting sun seen through fringe of pampas grass heralds the night, a time when Basho enjoyed socializing. He often lodged i...
"The road gods beckoned." Thus the poet Matsuo Basho set off in 1689 into Japan's backcountry. His journal, Narrow Road to a ...
Matsumoto Castle
The province of meditative monks in the early morning and evening hours, Ryoan-ji is a requisite stop for busloads of student...
Anglers fish in a thermal stream in Daisetsuzan National Park. Hokkaido, Japan.
At Daichi-ji near Kyoto, guests can sample tea cakes while savoring the undulating azalea hedge that is the garden.
During festivals in the Takachiho region of Miyazaki Prefecture in southeastern Kyushu, dancers reenact Shinto creation stories.
The rooftop cortyard garden located at Dokkyo University Hospital.
The rooftop cortyard garden located at Dokkyo University Hospital.