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The Atomic Bombing Of Nagasaki

Tokyo in Twilight

Click the pic for the full size. Click the link below to see the haunting collection of photos of downtown Tokyo at Sunset:

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Peaceful Places

Enjoy these picturesque Japanese Gardens:

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Thin Buildings

Japan is known for its limited space. Enjoy these (six) pics of some really thin buildings:

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Japanese Zen Gardens

Relaxing photo gallery of Japanese Rock Gardens in Kyoto:

Flowers, an inherent component of western gardens, are considered distracting elements and are almost absent in Buddhist gardens - all because of their fugacious beauty. Like Japanese ink painters, who gave up colors to achieve monochromatic simplification, rock garden designers renounced varicolored flowerbeds in favor of stone. The exception proving the rule, however, is the flower of Buddhism - lotus.

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Aluminum and Glass

An ingenious way of adding on to existing spaces:

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Link to Japanese website with soothing music and pics.

Green Building: The ACROS Fukuoka

While the New America is concerned with war and death, other countries are focusing on renewable resources and environmentally friendly roofs:

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Tags: new, america, fascist, playground, cool

Travel Tokyo and Japan in Pictures

Another amazingly organized collection of pics from Japan:

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Process of Japanese Makeup

Six easy steps to becoming a Geisha:

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Travel Pics of Japan

Chris Wilson's photography and writings from all over the nation and it's surrounding islands:

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Japan at Night

Go check out this kick-ass collection of night pics from downtown Tokyo:

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2400 photos of Japan in 4 minutes and 43 seconds

This dude went to Japan and took over 2,000 pics, then mixed them into this (almost) 5 minute video with some cool-ass house music:

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Technorati tags: must, visit, Japan, soon, cool

Japanese TV

I had to work all morning and afternoon so I'm exhausted but it's okay because I was able to make some money. For some reason I wasted a good fifteen minutes of my life watching this Japanese gameshow.

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Japanese Gameshows

I would move to Japan just to watch the gameshows. Here we have teams of naked female contestants stuffing themselves into a phone booth. Nothing more to say.

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Kotaro Oshio

This little guy is amazing.

How can a five year old be so talented?

Japanese fish market

Some great pictures of the fish market in Japan:

Tsukiji is the largest fish market in the world handling more than 2000 tons of more than 450 types of seafood. I was told today 1/6th of the world’s fish passes through this market before it goes around the world every single day.

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Japan 2005

I love these pictures of Japan.

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New Sport in Japan

I am very dissappointed at myself for enjoying this video so much. I am ashamed that these girls have been embarrassed but hey, life goes on. It's just a little nudity...

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Nagasaki Journey

"On August 10, 1945, the day after the bombing of Nagasaki, Yosuke Yamahata began to photograph the devastation. His companions on the journey were a painter, Eiji Yamada, and a writer, Jun Higashi."

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