Oct 6, 2024 · Up to 200 villagers cooperate to thatch a roof in a single day, preserving this beautiful tradition. Thatched roofs were once a common sight in the Japanese countryside, but they started to...

Jul 24, 2014 · Summers in Hiroshima were suffocating, and the morning of 6 August 1945 was no different from any other - hot and humid. Shinji Mikamo had taken the day off from his work as an apprentice...

Jan 25, 2004 · Once upon a time, if you stood in the Saiwai-cho area of Kawagoe in western Saitama Prefecture, you would have seen all around you people in kimono moving between rows of old merchants' houses ...

The idiom “time stand still” has been used for centuries to describe a moment in which time seems to stop or slow down. Its origins can be traced back to ancient civilizations that believed in cyclical time, where events repeat themselves endlessly.

Oct 6, 2024 · Set in wooded valleys 250 miles northwest of Tokyo, these hamlets share about 120 traditional wooden houses, each crowned with an "exceptionally tall, imposing" thatched roof. As a result, Japan's 5,000-year-old thatching tradition flourishes here, nurtured by...

Oct 5, 2022 · Japan just opened to tourists for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began, echoing the island country’s isolationist policies during the feudal era. For 265 years, time in Japan...

Jan 12, 2019 · Nestled deep inside a valley in the far north of Kumamoto sits the steaming town of Tsuetate Onsen, an ancient pocket of Japan seemingly frozen in time. Home to a history that goes back 1,800 years, Tsuetate Onsen was once known as ‘Kyushu’s inner sanctum’ in a previous life it boasted a…

Apr 19, 2022 · After 17 years, I revisited Jigokudani Onsen in Nagano Prefecture and was delighted to see that time had stood still. What a rare treat. A quick Wikipedia search shows that more than 25 locations...

Dec 10, 2024 · On August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m., time stood still for the Atomic Bomb Dome. What answer will you find to the question of peace posed by this historic site? If you visit Hiroshima, be sure to include this extraordinary World Heritage site, located at the heart of Peace Memorial Park, in your journey.

Nov 7, 2018 · There are places in this world that never stop changing, like Rome — built on the ruins and debris of its previous iterations — or New York, with its ever-rising skyline. And then there are places...