1. Fruit Bus Stops - Wait for the Bus at Japan s Cutest Bus Stops
In Nagasaki s Konagai Town and the surrounding area are sixteen lovely bus stops shaped like fruit, imitating strawberries, melons, mandarin oranges, tomatoes, and watermelons. They were originally built by Konagai locals in 1990 for the Nagasaki Travel Expo and remained as a local landmark after the event, contributing to the fairy-tale scenery and vintage look of this seaside town. The fruit bus stops offer unique photo opportunities, especially when they are teamed up with the charming shores and flower fields in this part of Nagasaki Prefecture!
2. Dejima - Wander Around the Island That Was Once Japan s Only Gateway to the Outside World
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Originally published in Japanese in 1982, the novel
Sachiko by Shūsaku Endō, perhaps Asia’s best-known Catholic author of fiction, has been recently translated into English by Van C. Gessel. In part a conventional love story of star-crossed lovers ripped apart from their embrace by the tragic whirlwind of the history of the twentieth century,
Sachiko is above all a powerful and inspiring account of the moral dilemmas and tenacious faith of Japanese and Western Christians amidst the depravity of World War II, one whose outlook surprisingly contrasts with the pessimism of Endō’s best-known novel
Silence.
Shūsaku Endō (1923-1996) was one of the best-known Japanese novelists in the West. His popularity outside Asia has often been attributed to the fact that he deals mostly with Christian themes, which are not esoteric to the Western reader. In 1994, he was a serious contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature, but lost to another Japanese, Kenzaburō Ōe. Born in Tokyo an
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