More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  Hagi Castle was built in 1604 as the new base for the Mori Clan. A few years earlier they had been ruling over most of the Chugoku region,...

  On the southern slopes of Mount Taima can be found the Murodani Rice Terraces. In 1999 they became classified as one of the top 100 rice t...

  A few miles before reaching the Sea of Japan, the Abu River in Yamaguchi splits into two channels, the eastern being named the Matsumoto R...

  Bullfighting takes place in numerous areas across the country of Japan, but it is not the man versus bull familiar in the West, but rather...