KAMAKURA, Kanagawa Prefecture--In the late afternoon one weekday in early September, dozens of tourists crowded around a railway crossing here, a pilgrimage site for fans of the popular ...
It is a gilded wooden statue about four meters tall and believed to have been made during the Kamakura Period (1185-1333), in or around 1200. Over the centuries, it moved from one place to another ...
A maritime museum located in the Tokyo Waterfront Secondary City Center, where Japan's first Antarctic research ship, the Soya, is displayed. The oldest maritime museum in the Tokyo Waterfront ...