Around 150 years ago, the upstate New York village of Saranac Lake became home to people looking for a cure to a highly contagious disease. Today, its healing legacy lives on.
Nobody Knows is a project to develop a new form of tourism called by combining folk performances handed down in local regions and performances from professional traditional performing arts at Japan Heritage sites all over the country. It is organized by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, government of Japan, Japan…
Japan will not consider South Korean opposition in deciding whether to push ahead with a plan to nominate a gold and silver mine site on Sado Island in Niigata Prefecture for the 2023 UNESCO World Heritage list, Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi says.
Harajuku is widely regarded as one of the centers of Tokyo’s fashionable youth culture with Takeshita-dori at its heart. As one strolls Takeshita-dori there is one intersection with a laneway where two crepe shops stand across the lane from each other and behind them a heavily wooded hillside beckons. Mount…
Completed in 2020 in Onomichi, Japan. Images by ToLoLo Studio, Satoh Photo. More than a city office: a new site to see - Known for its beautiful archipelago of some 700 islands, Japan’s Setonaikai (Seto Inland Sea), is the.