Praying For Good Tobacco Harvests at Mt. Kabasan`s Kiseru Matsuri (きせる祭)- The Giant Tobacco Pipe Festival !
Though it is already September and ostensibly Autumn, down on the heavilly deforested and extensively PAVED expanses of the Kanto Plain it ....
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Pearl Harbor and Kamikaze Pilots Have Strong Connection to Lake Kasumigaura- Visiting The Yokaren Museum (again)
The vegetation is closing in all around you, while the shrill droning of cicadas and other insects pounds in your head. The heat-waves radia....
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The Summer Hanabi (fireworks) Season in Tokyo Kicks Off Tonight With the Great Sumida River Hanabi Festival
Today is the 4th Saturday of July, and as all Edo-Ko ( natives of Tokyo`s Shita-Machi district) know, that means tonight there will be FI....
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The Summer Hanabi (fireworks) Season in Tokyo Kicks Off Tonight in a BIG WAY With the Great Sumida River Hanabi Festival
Today is the 4th Saturday of July, and as all Edo-Ko ( natives of Tokyo`s Shita-Machi district) know, that means tonight there will be FI....
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Iris Festival ( AYAME MATSURI ) in Sawara opens at the end of the month ( May 27th)- revisited
The most celebrated spring flowers in Japan, namely the ume (plum blossom) and the sakura (cherry blossom) are very pretty (in a soft and de....
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In Miharu 〔三春), Reverent Crowds Gather Round The Greatest Sakura Tree Of Them All- the Taki-Zakura (滝桜)- the Cascading Cherry
Miharu`s Great Weeping Cherry Tree ( 2010) Normally, its just a sleepy former castle town, which could be said to be right smack in the m....
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Remembering the SAKIMORI ( 防人), Japan`s Ancient Conscripted FRONTIER GUARDS ( but lets separate the fact from the legend)
The Saito-Sai Festival in Kashima on March 9th One of the good things about living in the Tsukuba Science City, is that in addition to a....
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Makabe, in Sakuragawa City, All Dolled-Up Until March 3rd
Hina Dolls in an old bookshop in Makabe Most of the year, if you pass through the center of the quaint, though rusting and run-down old town....
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