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Thu, 14 Feb 2013 | By samsarasun | Views [1371]
I've just started my 3rd month working in Niseko, Japan. An ordinary day in Hirafu can as follow:
Wake up in the morning, look out the windon and the first thing you can see is at least 20 cm of fresh snow (the snow report predicted 0 cm). Look at ... Read more >
Tags: bars, japan, powder, snowboarding
Sat, 13 Sep 2014 | By lmatejak99 | Views [1061] | 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 >
Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | By soemmia | Views [682] | Comments [1]
On November 20th 2004, Andy, a friend from England called Nick, and I
went to Tokyo. We knew someone, Nathan, who had moved there from Kyoto, so
he offered us a place to stay. The four of us went on a 3-day rampage
(!) around Tokyo! We had a day off ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 | By roxyfish | Views [682]
After a lazy day of not much it was time to dress in suitable attire for an evening of fireworks and meet my friends at Wakayama city station. All I can say is WOW, there were so many people doing exactly the same thing I was...yukata's (summer kimono's) ... Read more >
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
Sun, 13 Feb 2011 | By theblacktwig | Views [486]
I have traveled as far as hundreds of miles from the Pearl of the Orient to the Land of the Rising Sun only to encounter images of déjà vu from a distant past. My knowledge of Japan is similar to the preserved stories in the pages of history books ... Read more >
Tags: bombing, hiroshima, history, japan, peace, student in japan
Sun, 28 Jul 2013 | By fujihiker | Views [460]
July 26.013 7am (PDT)
After 11 hours of flying & 6. Hours of sleep. Over the last 3 days. Our teams have arrived in Tokyo. The reason for lack of sleep is that I had no sound for movies or audio and I got moved to an. Area in the front ... Read more >
Mon, 28 Jul 2008 | By peter_allen | Photo Gallery
my first 2 days
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Sun, 26 Jul 2009 | By abcarlson | Photo Gallery
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Sun, 11 Apr 2010 | By chas | Photo Gallery
Hangin' with Maisie & Junji
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Tags: japan, osaka
Mon, 26 Jul 2010 | By abcarlson | Photo Gallery
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Thu, 5 Apr 2012 | By escape | Photo Gallery
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Tue, 8 Jan 2013 | By thomasgordon | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
Photography is a very big interest of mine. "A picture tells a thousand words", doesn't quite cover the depth of expressionism that a single photograph can have on a person.
I have always taken a fond interest of photography as it seems quite natural ...
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Tags: Travel Photography Scholarship 2012
Wed, 3 Jul 2013 | By irinaearnshaw | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
Outside the bathroom in my family home are shelves of National Geographics, bowing under the weight of nearly 100 years of issues. I don’t think that my parents could have predicted the hunger for travel and photography that they would give me – there’s ...
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Sat, 7 Jan 2017 | By caessar_aug | Photo Gallery
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