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WINNER of 2025 Award for Excellence by the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild Just as a parent leaves a legacy to their child, a tree leaves a legacy to its surroundings. A deep and explorative companion piece to the Roger Deakin Award-winning The Draw of The Sea. Throughout history, trees...

In traditional Japanese culture, people eat, sleep and wear the seasons, from kimono motifs to petal-shaped sweets, and festivals dedicated to nature’s spectacular displays. This mindful celebration of nature leads to a deep awareness of the seasons, called kisetsukan. This audiobook reveals the hidden depths of kisetsukan, and how its concepts can transform your life.

With Mountain Madness, Clinton Crockett Peters chronicles his travels and personal transformation from a West Texas evangelical to mountain guide to humbled humanist after a near-fatal injury in Japan's Chichibu Mountains. From 2007 to 2010, Peters lived in Kosuge Village, nestled in central Japan's peaks, where he was the only foreigner in town. This essay collection profiles who he was before Japan, why he became obsessed with mountains, and his fallout from mountain obsession. Ultimately, the collection asks, how can landscape create and end identities?

'Everyone is on a journey in their lives . . . And I believe that humankind too is on a journey in the flow of a larger time.' In this enduring classic, Michio Hoshino shares his reflections on the natural world, and our place within it. Beautifully written, this book is a collection of...

Discover the fascinating journey of Japan, tracing its roots from ancient times to the dawn of the 20th century. Join Kazbek as he guides you through pivotal moments and cultural shifts that shaped this remarkable nation.

This captivating podcast reveals the journal entries of Marie Stopes, a trailblazer in both science and social activism. As a renowned palaeobotanist, her studies led her deep into Japans coal mines. Simultaneously, she sparked controversial discussions with her radical views on love-based marriages, womens rights, and birth control. The narrative takes us through her adventures in Japan, her scandalous relationship with botanist Fujii Kenjiro, and her interactions with the vibrant diplomatic community of Tokyo. Back in England, she founded the countrys first birth-control clinic, promoting a ...

Roundtable Japan is a bilingual podcast on modern and contemporary Japan sponsored by the Toshiba International Foundation. This series brings together scholars and experts from around the world to discuss a single theme each time. Topics will be selected from major themes in modern and contemporary society. Each episode will be accompanied by transcripts and/or subtitles, a reading list, etc., to make it accessible to the broadest audience possible. 公益財団法人 東芝国際交流財団のご提供でお届けするラウンドテーブル・ジャパン (Roundtable Japan)は、...

A stunning blend of investigative journalism, authoritative science writing, and embedded ethnography. Every Human Intention captures the unsettling, lyrical beauty of the intimate moments and buried secrets that form Japan’s national drama. “An absolute marvel. Reveals the inner workings...

SPF Japan-U.S. Insightsは、笹川平和財団日米グループのポッドキャストチャンネルです。このチャンネルでは、アメリカの政治・社会、外交・安全保障のホットなトピックからより広く日米関係、国際政治まで、様々なテーマについて専門家による議論をお届けします。

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Our channel offers original, one-take recordings of nature sounds, captured just as they are.

On March 11, 2011, an earthquake large enough to knock the earth from its axis sent a massive tsunami speeding toward the Japanese coast and the aging and vulnerable Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power reactors. Over the following weeks, the world watched in horror as a natural disaster became a man-made catastrophe: fail-safes failed, cooling systems shut down, nuclear rods melted.

An engaging guide to the art of forest bathing, inspired by the Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku, for anyone who wants to explore the transformative power of nature in promoting health and happiness. Forest bathing is the art of spending intentional time in nature and is practiced throughout...

Welcome to our podcast, where we explore the simple joys of everyday life in Japan.

海の問題を異業種・異分野を含む、自ら変化を創り出している人たちの言葉で伝えることで「海を知らない」（オーシャンブラインドネス）をテーマにした音声コンテンツを制作。コンテンツはPodcastやFMラジオを介して幅広い層へお届けする。情報発信感度の高いFMラジオ聴取者やPodcast利用者に、海の可能性、海の課題、海への関心を引き出していく

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