nurtured by the Japan Cultural Thatching Association, which runs occasional public workshops. The grandeur of the buildings ...
Nanmoku, Japan – Like all bakers, their day starts before dawn. Hours later, as the mid-afternoon light streams through the windows of their kitchen, Masayuki Kaneta, 85, and his son, Shigeuki ...
Instead, I wanted to take a proper look at Longtian Village (龍田村), immediately south of the highland. Longtian’s road grid was laid out 1912-1915 by Taiwan Sugar Company (not the current state-owned ...
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TOTSUKAWA, Nara Prefecture--Hanako Kakuta became enchanted with the appeal of Japan’s biggest village, nestled as it is by summits in the Kii mountain range. With a population of just 3,000 or ...