Featured Wakayama Prefecture Stories
Japan's Ama Women Divers
Agence-France Presse AFP - Global [22,438]
SHIRAHAMA, Japan, June 15, 2003 - Japan's legendary ama women shellfish divers, immortalised on stamps and in the 1967 James Bond film "You Only Live Twice", have grown older and their numbers have...
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Koya-San, Japan's Holy Mountain
Graham Simmons - gsimmons [5,308]
Mist shrouds the surrounding hills. The wind is cold and biting. Yet an extraordinary energy pervades this place, and you feel as though you've been plugged into a dynamo. This is Koya-san, Japan's...
