Tag: japan

  • On 9 August 1945, US forces detonated a second atomic bomb over Japan, destroying the city of Nagasaki, killing around eighty-thousand people and injuring many more. The first bomb, which had levelled Hiroshima three days earlier, was not sufficient to prompt Japan to capitulate. Six days after the destruction of Nagasaki, however, and following Russia’s…

  • Last year during our travels in Japan we spent some time in Kanazawa. Lovely place, took some beautiful photos there, it was hard to take a bad shot. Anyway, my image gallery from the trip started attracting some interesting comments. One image in particular – a set of footprints painted on a road – seemed…

  • With apologies to Hiroshige … a montage of 36 shots taken on our recent trip to Japan.

  • Sometimes all you need to do is point and click.

  • Especially for castle loverz … a little exclusive gallery from the home of okonomiyaki.

  • Saihou Jodo

    who will carry me to saihou jodo what to bring there what to wear? take me to the top of a mountain leave something behind to forget who’ll build another kogetsudai fire my body at the silvery moon? leave something behind to forget falling into orbit & spinning space who’ll throw me into ginshadan drown…

  • That is the question I have been asking myself for the past ten days here in Japan, where I have given into the temptation to let my facial hair grow, partly as a form of self-amusement and partly because it’s something I like to try out every now and then, in the hope that I…