Waste and Memory: Niigata Minamata 60 Years Later Sixty years after the Niigata Minamata Disease first made headlines, the ghost of mercury still casts a long shadow. Not just in rivers. Not just in bodies. But in memory, justice, and what society ha...

Waste and Memory: Niigata Minamata 60 Years Later

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The History of Whaling in Japan: shaped by a long and often complicated history, stretching from coastal communities that once treated whales as gifts from the sea to full-scale industrial fleets.

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Often overlooked, but worth a visit: the Kamakura Museum of History and Culture!

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Niigata’s Five Great Ramens: A Culinary Journey Through Japan’s Snowy North While cities like Tokyo, Sapporo, and Fukuoka often steal the spotlight when it comes to ramen, Niigata Prefecture quietly holds its own with an impressive and distinctive ramen culture. Located along...

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Tate-ishi, Miura Peninsula

Uesugi Harunori (上杉治憲, 1751-1822), an Edo-era pinnacle of frugality

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Uesugi Kenshin (上杉謙信, 1530-1578), Shingen's legendary rival.

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The Uesugi clan was a powerful samurai family with roots tracing back to the Kamakura period. Read all about them.

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Utagawa Kuniteru (歌川国輝, active 1818-1860), Tainosuke slaying a serpent, from Wakan eiyū gaden (和漢英雄画伝, Heroes of Japan and China), c.1848, 37x24.8cm.

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (歌川国芳, 1798-1861), Wada Heita Tanenaga Killing a Giant Snake (和田平太胤長), 1834-35.

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (歌川国芳, 1798-1861), Matsui Tamijiro, sword in hand, fighting a giant snake (刀を手に大蛇と戦う魔津伊多見治郎), 1840s, oban tate-e.

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (歌川国芳, 1798-1861), Shuma Hiroyuki, later known as Jiraiya, using a heavy gun to defeat a vast snake that preyed on his toads (本朝水滸伝 尾形周馬寛行), c.1830, 39.1 x 26.9 cm.

2025 is the Year of the Snake, an animal deeply intertwined with Japanese mythology and culture. Here are a few snake-related ukiyo-e by Utagawa Yoshitsuya, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, and Utagawa Kuniteru.

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Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), Shichirigahama in Sagami Province (相州七里浜 Sōshū Shichirigahama), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji" (冨嶽三十六景 Fugaku sanjūrokkei); ca. 1830-32, Woodblock print; ink and colour on paper.

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Takahata Fudōson (高幡不動尊)
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Sumo-themed nishiki-e by Katsukawa Shunshō, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, and Utagawa Hiroshige I.

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Miura Alps - Hiking from Hayama to Yokosuka

One of the lesser-known attractions of the Miura Peninsula is the "Miura Alps", a range of hills that stretch from Hayama on the western coast to Yokosuka on the eastern shore.

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A heartwarming story about a successful quest for the past: finding the address where my father was born, Kobe, 1925.

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KINTSUKUROI FILM - OFFICIAL TEASER YouTube video by IkeibiFilms Co

Kintsukuroi - a film about the Japanese Internment

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Our resident Gackt thread started in 2003, covers 128 forum pages, lay dormant for years, and was brought back to new life this autumn. 😀

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Saga of the Samurai: Interview with Terje Solum

Terje Solum is the author of the Saga of the Samurai series. Since 2003, he has published six volumes on the Kai Takeda clan and one on the Ōmi Gamō. We interviewed Terje in August 2017.

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Hyogo Park of the Oriental White Stork is a research facility of Hyōgo Prefecture, located in Toyooka City. The park, which opened in 1999, protects, breeds and reintroduces storks to the wild and aims to create an environment where humans and storks coexist harmoniously.

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Kawahara Keiga (川原慶賀, 1786-1860) was an Edo-era painter of Western-style pictures who sometimes signed his works in Roman letters "Tojosky," a Westernisation of his given name Toyosuke. Most of his works are exhibited in the Netherlands.

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