The Oki Islands include four inhabited islands surrounded by a ring archipelago lagoon approximately 24 miles north of the Honshu Coast, part of Shimane Prefecture in Japan’s Chugoku Region. During the week of August 17-21, ...

Throughout the Japanese Edo period (1603-1868) Mitarai, a coastal town in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, flourished as a fishing and mercantile port, with a secondary economy producing mandarins. The characteristic architecture ...