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Hitoyoshi Castle Ruins, Kyushu

Hitoyoshi Castle is not as well known as other castles such as Kumamoto or Nagoya but the history of this

My friend William Baerg is a contributor for the Kumamoto International Facebook page and has nicely agreed for me to

I haven’t done a post for a while about one of my favourite Ukiyo-e print series. So lets have a

I visited Shiga back in 2016 in January. I was expecting it to be cold but I was pleasantly surprised

I had a day off today and it wasn’t raining so I decided to visit Lafcadio Hearn’s residence just down

This article was originally going to be included in the ‘History of Aki (Hiroshima) Prefecture’ but as this article has

An amateur historian has unearthed compelling evidence that the first Australian maritime foray into Japanese waters was by convict pirates

The rain misted down and I had two choices: the road up the hill, or the one alongside the river.

The Battle of Shiroyama, the battle that inspired the final scenes in the movie The Last Samurai, took place on

Shukkeien gardens date back to 1620, a year after feudal lord Asano Nagaakira was made lord of Hiroshima. Asano’s principal

My first visit to Fukuyama and it turned out to be a beautiful day. After doing my immigration paperwork I

I went to Onomichi today hoping for clear skies and cherry blossoms. One came true, the cherry blossoms are in

I finally got an afternoon off, so I did a bit of exploring around Mihara. I visited the castle ruins

The Kamakura period 1185 to 1333 is a period of Japanese history that marks the governance of the Kamakura Shogunate;

God (Kami) When the English word God is translated into Japanese, it is generally represented by the kanji (Chinese character)