Places

By Isla Quinn “Sold, hired out, or destroyed.” Three verbs, and a town agreed in 1971 that none of them […]

By Ines Keane A building can look like a bird. Japan’s government magazine Highlighting Japan says Himeji earned the nickname

By Isla Quinn White walls. Black tiles. A canal that once carried salt. Where it is Wikipedia places Kurashiki in

By Ines Keane Takayama is the largest city in Japan by area. Most of that area is mountains. Where it

By Ines Keane Seki has water, pine and red clay, and a nineteenth-century government that took its main product away.

By Porter Lang Arita is small. Eighteen thousand people, a long main street, and a name that sits on porcelain

By Porter Lang Ninety-nine percent of all the gold leaf made in Japan comes from one city, and the number

By Isla Quinn Nobody can tell you exactly how old Jōmon Sugi is, and that uncertainty is itself part of