More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Yurahime Shrine was the highest-ranked shrine in all of the Oki Islands more than  1,000 years ago. It is located onNishinoshima Island on...

Kuromatsu The fishing harbor of Kuromatsu is just outside the main village in a small, adjacent cove. It is not very large but fairly typica...

This is the manhole cover for Nishinoshima, one of the islands that make up the Oki Islands. I know a squid is not a fish, but its close eno...

A common sight in fishing villages on the Iwami coast is squid hanging up to dry. I believe Iwami exports a lot of squid to other parts of J...

This manhole cover is from the same village as the bullfighting one, Tsuma on Dogo, the largest of the Oki Islands. This one shows a marine...