David Lee has posted this pretty neat experimental photography animation set in Japan:

I hope he took some of those early photos in an area of Kyoto without the [Ｄｏｎｏｔ　ｆｏｌｌｏｗ　Ｍａｉｋｏｓ　ｉｎ　ｔｈｅ　ｓｔｒｅｅｔｓ] signs.
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The Yomiuri reports on the discovery of the oldest known photographs of Yokohama:

According to the museum, the photographs were taken by Swiss photographer Pierre Joseph Rossier (1829-72), who visited Yokohama right after the port opened in the closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1867).
The photographs were discovered in 2007 by Terry Bennett, a London-based scholar [...]

An unflattering photo of former Prime Ministers Shinzo Abe and Yasuo Fukuda listening to the speech Taro Aso gave today:

[via Foreign Policy]

Kasuga Taisha is a shrine on the edge of Nara Park and is famous for having a lot of stone and bronze lanterns. By a lot I mean in the thousands.

If you are in Nara, it would be a shame to miss this UNESCO World Heritage Site and in a few weeks there will [...]

If you are looking to escape the heat and humidity of Japan, Hokkaido is the place to be in the summer. There are many places worth visiting and summer time is the perfect time for a lot of these places. This week I am sharing Hakodate with you.

To be completely honest, Hakodate might [...]

If you are looking to escape the heat and humidity of Japan, Hokkaido is the place to be in the summer. There are many places worth visiting and summer time is the perfect time for a lot of these places. Last week I mentioned Furano and today is a place pretty close by, [...]

If you are looking to escape the heat and humidity of Japan, Hokkaido is the place to be in the summer. There are many places worth visiting and summer time is the perfect time for a lot of these places. This week I am sharing with you Furano.

This photo was (obviously) taken at [...]

Actually, I am not going to the chapel, or the Buddhist temple, or even a Shinto shrine, but instead, today I am going to a hotel where I am getting married (thanks in advance for your congratulations)! Now I could go on and on about the wedding “system” here, but today is suppose to [...]

If you are looking to escape the heat and humidity of Japan, Hokkaido is the place to be in the summer. There are many places worth visiting and summer time is the perfect time for a lot of these places. One place that will be publicized this year is the hot spring resorts [...]

The rainy season. Three words I have come to hate in the past few years. To be honest, it isn’t the rain that is bad, it is the humidity. Now I am no stranger to humidity, having grown up in North Carolina and going to college at the University of Miami, but [...]

I was atop Mount Misen, on the island of Miyajima, when I found this boy who really wanted to use the binoculars. Unfortunately for him, he didn’t realize that he just wasn’t tall enough.

When he pulled them down towards him, all he could see was the sky, but if he pointed out towards the [...]

I have a list of things I want to do before I leave Japan. On the top of that list is climbing Japan’s iconic Mount Fuji. Summer is approaching which means the best time to climb the mountain is near.

This photograph was taken from the 5th stage of Mount Fuji, the highest point [...]