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Tokyo, Japan

Sat, 13 Sep 2014 | By lmatejak99 | Views [1050] | Comments [1]

After four awesome days in Kyoto, Blair and I take the bullet train back to Tokyo. The ride is just under three hours and goes through beautiful, mountainous regions covered in lush green forests. Off in the distance we catch an unobstructed ... Read more >

Happy (belated) Towel Day!

Sun, 6 Jun 2010 | By abcarlson | Views [889] | Comments [1]

I can't believe I forgot to post Happy Towel Day on May 25th! For all you hard-core Douglas Adams' fans out there, please know, we did actually celebrate with you, even if I am just now getting around to actually posting about it. Towel Day is held ... Read more >

Seek Experiences - JAPAN IN THE RAIN

This is Adam and Josh, we met while studying abroad. With both of us in film school it was only natural that we would start filming our experiences. We quickly realized that traditional travel shows don’t show experiences a typical traveler would encounter.... Read more >

Tags: Travel Film Scholarships 2013

Cormorant fishing in Gifu

Thu, 31 Jul 2014 | By clare-tamea | Views [577]

Gifu is a large modern town, through which runs a clean, clear, gravelly river. It is here that one of the oldest traditions takes place each night - cormorant fishing. The cormorant fishermen inherit their roles from their fathers and their ... Read more >

Tags: cormorant fishing, gifu

Meeting Ichiro Sekiguchi at Cafe de L'Ambre

Wed, 27 May 2015 | By | Views [516] | Scholarship Entry

Kurosawa’s cinema and Mishima’s writings attracted me to Japan since the early 1980’s. Through the years, more and more reasons kept pulling me towards Japan. I became increasingly interested in the theatre form known as Noh. During my years living in ... Read more >

Tags: 2015 Writing Scholarship

I made it!

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 | By jess_vl | Views [508]

woohoo! so, finally im here, in japan, and whats more ive survived my first day at work! although as i had thought i was finished working in fast food joints its all a little depressing... but its all good. amazingly i made it from the airport all ... Read more >

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Praise the winter

Fri, 5 Jul 2013 | By kilina | Views [428]

This photographs series is a double-feature film photo collection showcasing the daily winter days in Japan. I use different cameras (analogue and digital) and tried to experiment with films to capture the evasive reality of beautiful land- Japan.... Read more >

Moving on From Fuji to Nagoya

Sun, 8 Aug 2010 | By sebfyffe2886 | Views [367]

So today I leave Fuji behind and move on towards Nagoya after having the worst sleep of my night. My dorm was invaded by Japanese teenage boys so it was 7 of them and 1 of me. 1 of the boys was huge, I mean Enormous! He also snored. Now to put it into ... Read more >

First day

Wed, 3 Apr 2019 | By trinity773 | Views [327]

I'm here!😄 I can't believe it. First thing when i got here at the airport "I got lost". Leave it to me.😉 but after 3 hours getting everything done and getting to the hotel room i was exhausted. Now I'm waiting for my tour guide to pick ... Read more >