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Kanpei!
(courtesy of Bob
Crowe) |
Wooden funereal totems, Koya
San
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Megume 'Spectacle
Bridge', Nagasaki. (courtesy
of Bob Crowe)
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Osore-san bus stop |
Caravaneers in Matsushima bay
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Altar housing self-made mummy, Tsuruoka
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Inscription associated with the following
bas relief (on
the approach to Yasakuni shrine, Tokyo) |
Bas relief commemorating the
first
Japanese airman to score a kill in aerial combat over Suzhou bringing down
American pilot Robert McCawley Short |
'O mile' marker
on Nihonbashi bridge.
Used by mapmakers
for measuring distances form Tokyo
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Recruitment poster, Himeiji
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Famous carving of a
sleeping
cat, Nikko |
Japanese version of 'Big
Issue'
on sale, Kyoto
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Hanayashiki
Amusement Arcade,
Asakusa
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Bush and Blair's adventure in Iraq?
Nope! This quagmire is
actually one of Beppu's strange bubbling mud pools
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Film posters, Rokku, Tokyo
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'Arashiyama in the Rain' - read a translation
of Zhou En Lai's poem
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Well preserved hands, Tsuruoka
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Fungi, Hiraizumi
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Kunio in action
(courtesy Antony Helliwell) |
Arashiyama,
near Kyoto |
Maiko Odori,
Cherry Blossom Dance |

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Private riverside dining, Kyoto
(courtesy of Bob
Crowe) |
Three
Monkeys,
Nikko |
Plaque commemorating Kyushu's
historic
first public telephone box |

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Shinto wedding
(courtesy of Bob
Crowe) |
Labrador with
eyebrows
(mouseover) - courtesy of Mark Besford |
Sony girl
(courtesy of Bob
Crowe) |
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No smoking notice
(courtesy of Bob
Crowe) |
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