2013/06/21

tozan, yama nobori, hiking, mountain climbing

However you call it, the views are great. Pictures from Otsuji-yama in Toyama-ken, June 2013.
Summit altitude 1,361 meters.
[photo credits, T. Saito]
 
 


2013/06/07

images 1923, The Great Kanto Earthquake

new image site from the University of Hawaii at Manoa Library:
http://digicoll.manoa.hawaii.edu/earthquake/

The Great Kanto Earthquake Japan of 1923 provides access to 199 images from a historical album of still photos captured destruction by the deadliest
earthquake occurred on September 1st, 1923. The project was funded by the UHM Library and the National Research Center, East Asia Grant (NRC-EA).