Waves of muddy waters swept over farmland near the city of Sendai. At Sendai airport, north of Tokyo, was inundated with cars, trucks, buses and thick mud deposited over its runways. (March 11)
Follow latest updates at twitter.com and www.facebook.com North-east Japan has been swamped by a major tsunami - and the entire Pacific region is now on alert. It was caused by an 8.9-magnitude ear...
Follow latest updates at twitter.com and www.facebook.com North-east Japan has been swamped by a major tsunami - and the entire Pacific region is now on alert. It was caused by an 8.9-magnitude ear...
Follow latest updates at twitter.com and www.facebook.com North-east Japan has been swamped by a major tsunami - and the entire Pacific region is now on alert. There's a major search and rescue...
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Just a video of my "actual" travel to Japan. Not really any of Japan, yet. I'm very late with the videos, I know, sorry. I'm just really enjoying spending time with my host family.
My friends left me behind in Nagoya, I had to wait some time before my train arrived. It was a lonely, COLD night. And I had to listen to that piercing tune, it was everywhere on Nagoyo no Eki.
Traffic has also fallen off since September 11, 2001, and although hopes were high that considerable business would be generated by neighboring Korea and other countries visiting Japan, did not accoun...
I take a trip home. A month to be with family and friends, seems like a long time but goes incredibly quickly in my experience. One thing that doesn't go quickly however is the traveling. This trip to...
The comfortable Hotel Auersperg sits in the venerable city quarter of Schallmoos in the heart of Salzburg, Austria. This historic hotel, built around 1900, has been in the hands of the owners' family ...
The comfortable Hotel Auersperg sits in the venerable city quarter of Schallmoos in the heart of Salzburg, Austria. This historic hotel, built around 1900, has been in the hands of the owners' family ...
In the age followers W. War II, government-industry cooperation, a powerful operate principle, ascendancy of lyceum discipline, and a comparatively micro defence allocation (1% of GDP) helped Archipel...
As an island nation shut off from the rest of the world for a long time (with mild exceptions from China and Korea), Japan is very homogeneous. Almost 99% of the population is of Japanese ethnicity. T...
Okayama is a major transit hub for western Japan. But with white peaches, a brooding black castle, and the famous garden of Krakuen, there are plenty of reasons to catch a later train and get out of...
Sendai is the largest city (about 1,000,000 people) in the Tohoku region of Japan's Honshu island. Sendai is divided into five districts: Aoba-ku, Izumi-ku, Miyagino-ku, Taihaku-ku and Wakabayashi-ku....
Mito is the capital of Ibaraki prefecture, Kanto region, Japan. It is located in the center of Ibaraki. View of Senba Lake from Kairakuen hilltop during cherry blossom season. When Tokugawa Ieyasu reu...
Nara is an ancient capital city in Nara Prefecture, Kansai region of Japan. Overshadowed by its more famous neighbor Kyoto, Nara is omitted from many a time-pressed tourist's itinerary. However, Nara ...
Osaka is the second largest city in Japan, with a population of over 17 million people in its greater metropolitan area. It is the central metropolis of the Kansai region and the largest of the Osaka-...
Fukuoka is the capital of Fukuoka prefecture and the largest city on the island of Kyushu. Fukuoka is a modern city; most of its buildings are new. Historically, it was divided by the central river in...
Tottori and its sand dunes are among the best reasons to visit western Japan. There's more to do than climbing and collecting seashells ??? hang-gliders, sandboards, and even camels await. Kobo Abe's ...