Looking back on 2023 Golden Week in Japan
A foreign tourist takes picture at Nakamise shopping street, an approach to the Sensoji temple in Asakusa entertainment district, Tokyo in Japan on May 1, 2023. (Yohei Osada/AFLO) Golden […]
Japan Daily Life
Japan Daily Life
Japan fights the annual Summer heat
August 3, 2019, Tokyo, Japan – People dressed in yukata, summer kimono dress splash recycle water onto a ground a long a street at Ginza district in Tokyo for Uchimizu […]
Features, Japan Daily Life
Christmas Illuminations in Tokyo
(Photo by Rodrigo Reyes Marin/AFLO) Christmas illuminations decorate various parts of Tokyo during this festive season in Japan. Above: Shibuya Blue Grotto. Thousands of blue LED lights turn the streets […]
Features, Food, Japan Daily Life, Traditional Japan
Tokyo Governor Koike Visits Tsukiji Fish Market
(All photos by AFLO) Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike inspects the Tsukiji wholesale market in Tokyo, Japan on January 12, 2017. The market was scheduled to relocate to a nearby Toyosu […]
Features, Japan Daily Life
Cat island Aoshima
Cats outnumber residents almost 10 to 1 on Aoshima island, off the coast of Ozu city in Ehime prefecture. (All photos by Yoshio Tsunoda/AFLO) Our reporter visited the island on […]
