More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Oshima Island, about 4 kilometers offshore from Oi on the mainland of Yamaguchi, has only one settlement, but big enough to have a small s...

  The area of Hagi around the port and the mouth of the Matsumoto River is called Hamasaki. Though there was still more than a month until G...

The Japanese Cormorant, Phalacrocorax capillatus,  known as Umui in Japanese, is also known as Temmincks Cormorant. It can be f...

This is the draincover for Miyoshi, a town in the mountains of Hiroshima, and upstream from us on the Gonokawa river. It depicts cormorants ...