More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Tengawa no Mizu spring is one of the Top 100 Spring Waters of Japan and is located on Ama, one of the inhabited Oki Islands off the north ...

    I suspect that we all have specific images or scenes that encapsulate our experience of Japan. While an icon is usually a visual image  ...

Chiburijima is the smallest of the four inhabited islands that make up the Oki Islands of the coast of Shimane. With only 600 residents ...

There's a freezing wind howling outside, and a couple of inches of snow have fallen in the past day, so winter has certainly arrived a l...

Though the official start of spring, Setsubun, was a few weeks ago, for me the sign that spring is here is the arrival of the plum blossoms....