This is a short clip of a festival I recently went to where the locals make a giant snake 271 feet long out of straw and bamboo. There are legends of giant snakes...
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Tsunabi is an interesting little festival in Ibaraki Prefecture where they attach fireworks to puppets on ropes. They do a type of puppet play by pulling the ropes...
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Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture is one of the town that was hit hard by the tsunami which followed the earthquake on March 11, 2011. I was passing thru 5 months...
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Obon is the Japanese Festival of the Dead in which Japanese believe the souls of the departed return home for a brief while. Obon is a Buddhist tradition but in the...
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Summertime is ghost-time in Japan. It's time to tell scary stories in order combat the summer's heat with the cold chill that only ghost stories can bring....
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The Sanno Matsuri of Hie Shrine in Akasaka, Tokyo is one of the three big festivals of Tokyo. It's held every other year on even years. It used to be very large...
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Kemari is an Ancient Japanese sport originally from China which is a mix of soccer/football and hacky sack. Players try to keep the ball in air by using various parts...
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Tokyo Decadance that eclectic hodge-podge of Japanese underground subculture was going in the rainy month of June so I donned my samurai armor (which got me a...
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The New York Times... PHOTO: Ko Sasaki for The New York Times Kazuko Sasaki, left, and Masaaki Takahashi are among those who have volunteered in hopes of...
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The first "independent" review of the safety failures during Japan's nuclear disaster reveals some chillingly obvious "lessons" to be learned...
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New report shows early chaos at Japan nuke plant By MARI YAMAGUCHI, AP 2 hours ago TOKYO — A new report says Japan's tsunami-ravaged nuclear plant...
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A very visual leap in perspective for us all. My wife has been talking about this for some time. What a beautiful creation, if I was ArchDruid I might be taking a...
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Source: Deutsche Press Agentur via Energy News Tokyo - Radioactive contamination from the stricken nuclear power facility Fukushima has worsened, the operators...
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We have had misinformation from the institutions in charge of this incident since the beginning. Perhaps it is time to gather the truth and let the people decide how...
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Holes feared in two Japan nuclear reactors By Kyung Lah, CNN May 25, 2011 5:16 a.m. EDT Photo: An aerial view of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power...
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"As heroic workers and soldiers strive to save stricken Japan from a new horror-radioactive fallout-some truths known for 40 years bear repeating. An...
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This is a video I made in support of Japan after the earthquake and devastating tsunami which caused much damage and loss of life in northeastern Japan in the Tohoku...
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Japan to launch massive search for quake bodies By SHINO YUASA, AP 4 hours ago TOKYO — Japan will send nearly 25,000 soldiers backed by boats and...
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PART ONE.......... Nuclear threat level raised Crisis rates in most severe category Japan nuclear agency raises threat level By Matt Smith, CNN April 11,...
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The New York Times... April 9, 2011 Japan Orders Nuclear Plant Operators to Obtain More Emergency Generators By ANDREW POLLACK and MATTHEW L. WALD...
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