This year’s vernal equinox falls on March 20, commencing the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and the start of the astrological new year with the sun’s ingress into Aries ― the first of the 12 zodiac signs. Marking a moment where daylight and darkness are in equal…
The founding of the Republic of Korea in August 1948 brought the U.S. occupation of southern Korea to an end. As U.S. military administrators left, the new State Department-run American Mission in Korea (AMIK) was organized.
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In Winter, it’s Usually Clear Skies in Tsukuba – bringing distant sacred mountains into view!
11 December, 2020
By Avi Landau
Visitors cannot get a full view of Mt Fuji anymore from the top of Tsukuba`s Mitsui Building- its only possible to make out the tip of its northern slope
A climb up the slopes of Mt Tsukuba has long provided a view, which in this mostly mountainous country, can be said to be unique – a vast plain, rolling out into the horizon. For a nation of herders or ranchers ( which the Japanese are not), this part of Japan might have been the most attractive part of the whole archipelago, and the Tsukuba area would long, long ago have been turned into pastureland for grazing cattle.