More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  If you ask a Japanese person if Japanese people eat pheasant, you will almost certainly get an emphatic "absolutely not". Howeve...

  After descending from the Akiyoshidai plateau, I visited another of the 400 caves that extend underneath it. The first hundred meters or s...

  Beneath the Akiyoshidai limestone karst in central Yamaguchi, sit 400 caves, the largest of which is named Akiyoshido. It is said to exten...