#japan sea

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Wakame

“Undaria pinnatifida is a brown seaweed that reaches an overall length of 1-3 m. Undaria is a native of the Japan Sea and the northwest Pacific coasts of Japan and Korea. In Japan, Undaria, known locally as 'wakame', is extensively cultivated as a food plant. Japanese consumption of the alga is around 200,000 tonnes of fresh or dried plant per annum. Undaria is regarded as a pest because it is highly invasive, grows rapidly and has the potential to overgrow and exclude native seaweeds. It was first detected in Australia in 1988 near Triabunna on the east coast of Tasmania. Over the following ten years it spread along 100 kms of the Tasmanian east coast and also to Victoria - the most likely vector being international shipping.” - via Wikimedia Commons

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Sunset by Teruhide Tomori Via Flickr: Location : Cape Bentenzaki, Mihama, Fukui pref. 福井県三方郡美浜町弁天崎

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内灘海岸 / Uchinada Coast

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Seashore by Teruhide Tomori Via Flickr: Location : Nishiwaki beach / Uradome Coast Iwami-cho, Tottori pref. 浦富海岸 / 西脇浜 鳥取県岩美郡岩美町羽尾

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“Japan Sea” by Shunji Dodo /Japanese, b. 1947

“We meet people, and we all die someday. In this seemingly mundane everyday life, I desire to face, as much as I can, the rawness of hte people who live thier lives vibrantly in their own places. As I kept photographing, this was something that stayed in my mind along with the main theme 'SHINDOFUNI', a Buddhist belief; our body and the earth are never apart, are always connected as one.”

― Shunji DODO

info: https://www.shashasha.co/en/book/japan-sea

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Beach Park on Japan Sea

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US army to buy Japanese seafood to counter Chinese ban

Washington has started buying Japanese seafood to supply its armed forces in response to China’s ban imposed after Tokyo released purified water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea, according to Reuters.

US Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel told Reuters on Monday that the US should also look more broadly at how it can help offset China’s ban, which he said is part of its “economic wars.”

The Chinese government said its ban was due to concerns about product safety. China was previously Japan’s largest seafood buyer.

Read more HERE

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The Ama (sea women) are a group of japanese divers famous for collecting pearls.

Even in modern times, ama dive without scuba gear or air tanks, making them a traditional sort of free-diver.

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Yumemiushi

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Published with an essay by Yamaori Tetsuo and artist statement by Shunji Dodo, “Japan Sea” documents the ordinary life of the people who live along the coastal regions of Japan. This publication beautifullly captures the relationship between the individuals and their environment, portraying not only portraits of the people themselves but also portraying their surrounding nature, landscapes and environment that majestically fill the images captured within this body of work.

Here the everyday is captured, scenes of pastoral life to friendly group portraits reflect Dodo's attempt to face all of life as it is in and amongst the variencies of the mundane to the extraordinary.

“We meet people, and we all die someday. In this seemingly mundane everyday life, I desire to face, as much as I can, the rawness of hte people who live thier lives vibrantly in their own places. As I kept photographing, this was something that stayed in my mind along with the main theme 'SHINDOFUNI', a Buddhist belief; our body and the earth are never apart, are always connected as one.”

From the book:

JAPAN SEA / Shunji Dodo

Publisher: Akaaka-sha (2014)

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Suishohma beach by Teruhide Tomori Via Flickr: Location : Suishohama beach, Mihama-cho, Fukui pref. 福井県美浜町水晶浜

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沖縄県 エメラルドビーチ

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by Biwako

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朧日の出 / 昇陽

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Tugumi (Jun Ichikawa, 1990)