“More pickles? – Do you want more pickles?” The staff in the Yamamotoya restaurant near Nagoya Station‘s Shinkansen exit prowl …
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During our recent four week research trip to Okinawa we stayed one night at the amazingly renovated Spice Motel on …
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A purple heron is wading through the shallow water, followed by a couple of ducks. Only some unpaved roads and …
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updated in October 2021 Long and steep hills, like dragons, on an island in the far south of Japan. Many …
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The slender dragons on the roof coil their tails, while long-bearded Chinese sages look down on us when we visit …
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The fierce red lion looks down from the tiled roof of a traditional house on Taketomi Island. Those guardian lions …
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„This is the largest shop, it’s open all day without a lunch break!“, the guest house owner explains. We are …
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Updated in July 2021 The UNESCO World Heritage Committee has inscribed Iriomote Island on the World Natural Heritage list. In …
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The first blog post we did in 2006 as a sort of technical test was a report about the „88 …
This year, Natascha went out to find the exact place where the world’s first atomic bomb (except for the test …
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