More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

Yamaguchi City is a prefectural capital, but it is the smallest in Japan, and has a feel more like a large town rather than a city. There is...

This is the second manhole cover design from the small town of Nichihara (now merged with Tsuwano) in western Shimane. The first design is h...

This is a view looking up the valley of Ato Town in northern Yamaguchi, not far from Tsuwano.

This small shrine, located a little off the yamanobenomichi in Sakurai, Nara, is the legendary site of the first Sumo match between humans. ...

I've passed this building hundreds of times, and with its walls of blue corrugated tin I've always presumed it to be some sort of wo...

A few weeks ago, before the onset of the rainy season and its attendant humidity, I took a little bike ride 20kms down the river to Gotsu. T...

Starting in April, you can find frogs everywhere,...in the house, in the garden, on the roads. I first come across the frogs in early spring...

This 3rd and final short video of Korean music from our trip to Seoul last weekend. This is a monk or priest playing the drum for a chan...

If the first video of Korean music from our trip to Seoul is high-brow, then this second one is certainly low-brow! I shot this just in fron...

Just got from a great weekend in Seoul, my first time in Korea, and was really impressed with the hospitality. This first video was shot at ...