Archive for December, 2014

Traditional Japan

Prayer Ceremony for Good Health in the New Year

Prayer Ceremony for Good Health in the New Year

(Click on the image above to view the full gallery) Tokyo, Japan – Shinto priests performs a purification ritual for a group of prayer ahead of the new year at […]

News

Best of 2014 in Pictures

Best of 2014 in Pictures

Tokyo, Japan – Hundreds of calligraphers brush words during an annual convention of New Year’s Kakizome at Tokyo’s Nippon Budokan martial arts hall on Sunday, January 5, 2014. Kakizome, or […]

Pictures of the Week

Pictures of the Week (Dec. 20 - Dec. 26)

Pictures of the Week (Dec. 20 – Dec. 26)

Osaka, Japan – (L to R) Yuki Shikama, Yuto Terakado, and Taiki Hirato (Antlers) in action during the 2014 J Youth Cup, semi-final Round match between Shimizu S-Pulse Yuoth 1-3 […]

Modern Japan

Starlight Garden at Tokyo Midtown

Starlight Garden at Tokyo Midtown

(Click on the image above to view the full gallery) Tokyo, Japan – The Starlight Garden is brightly illuminated with 180,000 blue LEDs at the Midtown Garden in Tokyo, November […]

Politics

Japan Diet Session at the Lower House

Japan Diet Session at the Lower House

(Click on the image above to view the full gallery) Tokyo, Japan – Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, right, talks to his fellow Democrats before the start of a parliamentary process […]