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Experimental Fireworks

Here are some clips from yesterday's 'experimental fireworks' festival in Suwa, as seen from the other side of the lake in Shimo...

We gathered under the dappled shade of the tall trees at Akimiya Shrine. The wide torsos of eleven professional sumo wrestlers from Tokyo gl...

My semi-fogotten inner-nerd rose to the surface in Tokyo when I caught up with some old friends. Tsukiji Fish Market It was my first time...

Togakushi: one of the first places I ever visited in Japan, and still one of the most beautiful. Note: Videos don't appear in em...

Too much fun resulted in too much footage to cut down, so the result is just under six minutes! Note: Videos don't appear in email ...

I stumbled upon a jazz band in Nagano City. As I took a position on the footpath to watch, an old guy sidled up beside me to practise his (p...

I thought I was going mad when I heard the whinny of a horse near my apartment. Playing games too much, I told myself. But it turns out ...

Well, this was a surprise... I knew something was going on when I saw a group of people in purple yukaka in my neighbourhood arou...

Even compared with the risky kiotoshi ("tree drop") in Chino the week before, Shimosuwa's is very dangerous. This is no cont...

There are only a few days of the year where the cherry blossoms are ripe: that precious heartbeat of full bloom before green leaves sprout. ...