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INTERVIEW | Mitsuhiko Imamori, Focus on Satoyama With a Sense of Urgency | JAPAN Forward

More than once, nature photographer Mitsuhiko Imamori has warned about the rapid disappearance of satoyama. He attributes this in part to the declining farming population. These farmers, who once managed the natural environments of satoyama, are crucial. They take care of tasks like cutting grass, pruning trees, sawing, harvesting, and repairing rice paddies throughout the […]

Discover Gunma, one hour from Tokyo by bullet train

Raina Ong Staff Writer,japan-guide.com Just one hour north of Tokyo by bullet train is Gunma Prefecture, the northwesternmost prefecture in Japan’s National Capital Region – a megalopolis consisting of Tokyo and its neighboring prefectures of Saitama, Kanagawa, Chiba, Yamanashi, Ibaraki, Tochigi and Gunma. Surrounded by mountains on almost all sides bar the southeast, Gunma Prefecture […]