Hidden Christian sites in Nagasaki regions is registered on UNESCO’s World Heritage in 2018.  Japanese Christianity has a long history of continuing faith while coexisting with Japanese  traditional religion Shint …

Hidden Christian sites registered on Wor…の続きを読む

  Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution sites registered on UNESCO World Heritafe in 2015 Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining are a group of historic sites that played an important part in the industrializati …

Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution regi…の続きを読む

  Kujukushima Islands, located at the westernmost tip of the Japanese mainland in Kyushu, are a picturesque scenic spot consisting of a complex ria coastline and 208 large and small islands. There are only four inha …

Kujukushima Islands, in Sasebo, Nagasaki…の続きを読む

  Hiraodai Karst Plateau & Caves is located in Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture. It is one of the three largest karst plateaus in Japan, situated at altitudes between 400 and 600 meters above sea level. The p …

Hiraodai Karst Plateau & Caves, in Fukuo…の続きを読む

  Kujukushima Islands, located at the westernmost tip of the Japanese mainland in Kyushu, Sasebo, Nagasaki-prefecture. There are a picturesque scenic spot consisting of a complex ria coastline and 208 large and smal …

Kujukushima Islands, in Sasebo, Nagasaki…の続きを読む

  Ino Tadataka started surveying the land of Japan at the age of 56, and spent 17 years creating Japan’s first accurate map of Japan based on actual measurements. The map was completed in 1821, three years after his …

Accurate Japanese map completed by Ino T…の続きを読む

  Ino Tadataka started surveying the land of Japan at the age of 56, and spent 17 years creating Japan’s first accurate map of Japan based on actual measurements. The map was completed in 1821, three years aft …

Accurate Japanese map completed by Ino T…の続きを読む

  In 1868, Meiji Restoration, the most important event in Japanese history, which heralded a new era of modernization in Japan.    This revolution restored the imperial rule to Japan after more than 250years of Toku …

Meiji Restoration in 1868…の続きを読む

  In 1873, the Meiji government abolished the ban on Christianity. Believers who had been in hiding returned to Catholicism, and churches in various villages were built with a variety of designs that combined Japane …

Ban on Christianity was abolished in 187…の続きを読む

  In 1873, the Meiji government abolished the ban on Christianity. Believers who had been in hiding returned to Catholicism, and churches in various villages were built with a variety of designs that combined Japane …

Ban on Christianity was abolished in 187…の続きを読む