Legend has it Kūkai, much-celebrated monk of 9th Century Japan, threw a three-pronged trident from Xi’an, China, which soared across the East China Sea, and embedded […]
An elegant steeply-arched wooden bridge of five spans. Staunch, flood-defying, stone piers. Umbrella-carrying pedestrians carefully making their way over the slippery timber arches. Fog enveloping the forested mountains […]
Each year Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost island, suffers through a long, cold, Siberian winter. The snow is deep and covers everything, and there is an almost perpetual […]