Kamakura, Japan News

From the epic films of Kurosawa, to hyperbolic Hollywood action films, to kitschy cartoons the legend and lore of the samurai continues to permeate the pop cultural imagination.

In a tranquil neighborhood surrounded by green mountains in Kamakura City, Kanagawa Prefecture, near a trickling brook and houses with colorful gardens, a group of excited children, aged 4 and 5, emerged from Kobato Nursery school, and headed for a nearby park.

The latest in my occasional forays into reading Japanalia-related literature is the widely-discussed " Dogs and Demons " by Alex Kerr .

Diamond World Mandala . Kamakura period , 13th century. Hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on silk, overall with mounting: 84 1/2 x 47 3/8 ; image: 46 11/16 x 38 7/8 in.

Even for those who don't appreciate ajisai sufficiently this is a precious shot of a a famous view at Megetsuin in Kita-Kamakura. It was taken at 8.25am yesterday, just before the full bloom was announced on the TV.

If you don't have the luxury of an expense account, A ta Gueule, a tiny French hideaway in Ebisu, promises a gourmet experience that won't break the bank.

On May 10, Kongourinji Temple performed a "Kaigen" consecration service for the restored reproduction of the early-Kamakura Period silk-based color painting "Diamond World Mandala with Eighty One Buddhas," an Important Cultural Property.

In the ongoing battle of wits with telephone fraudsters, police have deployed a tactic using potential victims to make suckers out of the con artists.

The reproducibility of a HeadFix relocatable fixation system: analysis using the stereotactic coordinates of bilateral incus and the top of the crista galli obtained from a serial CT scan Etsuo Kunieda et al 2009 Phys.

Not simply as a means to get clean, "sento," or public baths, have traditionally been places where communication flowed.

Tel: +81 467 46 9590; Fax: +81 467 48 6595; Email: furuichi{at}genecare.co.jp Received September 9, 2008.

Today, most visitors to Kamakura reach the former shogun's capital by rail. But the railway was not blasted through hills until 1889, and in shogunal days travelers arrived via the seven kiridoshi, passes cut through hills as entrances to the city.

There are shrines all over Japan devoted to all kinds of concerns, whether it be a fat wallet or even fertility , but it's probably worth hazarding a guess that there are hardly any that house a horse - or at least a reasonably realistic recreation of one.

This list contains attractions and accommodations that we enjoyed from our Dec 2008 Trip to Japan with our 7 year old daughter.

Late to the party as ever, but I thought that those involved in the "climate debate" might find this film amusing.

We follow one of Japan's biggest rock bands as they abandon the bright lights of Yokohama for a gig at a castle in the country Asian Kung-Fu Generation ... the band that Noel Gallagher told to 'keep rocking'. ...

You could literally spend a day or two exploring some of Kamakura's more famous temples, but if you're looking for something culturally unique, there's one temple - Hasedera or Hase Kannon Temple - which offers ...

A 13-year-old boy passed the weather forecaster certificate exam, it was announced Friday.

This little-known Korean art form may be simple in style but its messages are far from naive, writes Steve Meacham.

A Kadokawa Pictures release and presentation of a Twins Japan, Zen Prod. Committee production.