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Cherry blossoms fall to the water at the Imperial Palace, Tokyo, Japan
Cherry blossoms, Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan
Cherry blossoms fall to the water at the Imperial Palace, Tokyo, Japan
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An enchanted world in shades of green, Kyoto's Saihoji garden - known as the Moss Temple - is carpeted by some 120 varieties ...
Enamored of Mount Fuji after many visits, a feudal lord named Hosokawa Tadatoshi decided upon returning home to Kumamoto to e...
To ensure that the waters run crystal clear in the streambed at Kenrokuen, "river washers" labor from morning till dusk, swee...
To keep gardens pristine, workers even remove stray pine needles.
Begun in 1687 for a feudal lord in Okayama, the 32-acre garden was modeled on its then famous namesake in Tokyo. The correct ...
At a rock center in Ibigawa, rocks collected from rivers, mountains, and fields are cleaned, sorted, and valued according to ...
Feudal lords and courtesans of the 18th century once composed poems seated by this stream in the covered pavilion at Korakuen...
Tributes to nature appear in unexpected places: tucked away on a rooftop, between tracks of a railroad, or even in the rest r...
Flashes of living color, brilliant carp flit through pond waters at Takaragawa hot springs. A symbol of strength, longevity, ...
A dreamy haze over Takaragawa hot springs envelops a bather preparing to contemplate the beauty of the autumn foliage.
Where beef is a treat, fish is a staple that keeps much of Hokkaido's huge fleet busy year round. Hauls by small family-owned...
A widespread artificial-hatchery system helps ensure future stocks.
Damming thermal streams with makeshift rock wall, hikers enjoy what amounts to a birthright for every Japanese: a hot bath, w...
Home and haven for a tiny fishing village, Kojima, or Little Island, rides the sea like a factory ship. Kelp, a prime summer ...
Push-button affluence came last to Hokkaido of Japan's four main islands. But it has arrived, as these dispensers indicate.
In company baths miners soap and rinse, as Japanese etiquette demands, before soaking in hot water pools.
Day in darkness ends for mine workers emerging from a shift in the Ishikari coalfield, Hokkaido's largest.
A youngster starts salmon fry on their way to the sea in Sapporo's Salmon Baby Festival, an event that reintroduced the fish ...
Residents, native to the island and dwindling in population, include Ezo red foxes, an Ezo Brown bear, and hardy little ponies.
Body language expresses affection between Jack, a stag, and animal writer Masanori Hata, who raised the Ezo deer at his Anima...
While his work with indigenous island species continues at the isolated Animal Kingdom, Hata-san lives in a newly built log h...
A youngster starts salmon fry on their way to the sea in Sapporo's Salmon Baby Festival, an event that reintroduced the fish ...
Large paddies invite mechanized planting, three times faster than traditional hand-planting techniques.
Winter holds fast to the corrugated slopes of Hokkaido's Mount Yotei even as spring unfurls below.
Anchor between Hokkaido and the rest of Japan, the port of Hakodate handles a constant stream of ferries to and from Honshu.
Best part of the school week is three hours of instruction, by classroom teachers, on one of the many dozen ski slopes that m...
Snow worshipers search Mount Asahi, the island's hightest peak, for strips of unmelted snow in June - earning the title ski-k...
Three-year vigil continued for Mrs. Mitsuko Iazawa, far left, whose husband was imprisoned in the Soviet Union for illegal fi...
To many Japanese, Hokkaido is not quite Japan, and in fact island styles like nontraditional chimneyed houses reflect adaptat...
A wreath of land enables Hokkaido to rival the nation's most fertile regions in rice production and surpass them in dairying,...
Treasures in hand, a family carries bowls in the thatch-roofed village of Sarayama, where potters work in a style called Onta...
Fuminori Honda treads a floor of dried mud while revisiting the house, since razed. It sat more than a hundred yards from the...
A one-two punch from Mount Unzen in 1991 clobbered homes in Shimabara with rocks and hot ash, then swamped them with mud when...
Elbow room for a crowded nation, Aso-Kuju National Park entertains riders in the Aso caldera, measuring 11 by 15 miles. Inhab...
The aping of America can be found along almost any roadway. This garish street in suburban Fukuoka, a corridor that, for chao...
Ghostly forms of vessels called utase bune haunt Yatsushiro Sea on a misty day as they trawl for prawns, crabs, and small fis...
Cries of Kampai! - Cheers! - rise from fishermen toasting their first big catch of the season: 170 yellwtail netted off the i...
Robotic arms that can stop on a yen weld bodies of the Mark II hardtop made only for domestic sale, at Toyota's new plant in ...
During the 1930's a chemical plant began dumping lethal methylmercury into Minamata Bay. The eating of contaminated fish led ...