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Schools of carp, or koinobori, fly at the Tsuetate spa in Oguni in clelbration of Children's Day, the last in Japan's Golden ...
Treasures in hand, a family carries bowls in the thatch-roofed village of Sarayama, where potters work in a style called Onta...
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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 ...
Massaged into ineffable bliss, a hotel patron in Kagoshima finds solace in a bath sanctified by a shrine to a god of water an...
Mount Fuji of a man called Konishiki, 580 pounds of him, clowns around before catching a ferry for a sumo exhibition in tiny ...