Tourism website offers prayer of hope to struggling shrines on southern Tokyo isles

Edit Asahi News 29 Nov 2015
Priest Yasuhiko Matsue is delighted that his shrine, located on Kozushima island in the Izu island chain, has been included on a tourism website promoting local shrines on islands far south of Tokyo. ....

In The News / Yosuke Kaifu / Getting to know Asia’s ancient ancestors

Edit The Japan News 20 Feb 2015
By Makoto Mitsui / The Yomiuri Shimbun Homo sapiens spread from Africa to the rest of the world about 50,000 years ago. How did they live and develop in Asia? ... “In reality, however, there was a diversity of culture and technology in various areas in Asia.” ... In Japan, ancient navigators carried obsidian, a volcanic glass used to make tools, to Honshu from Kozushima island of the Izu Island chain about 38,000 years ago ... + - ... ....

3 Izu Islands create English brochure

Edit The Japan News 17 Feb 2015
The Yomiuri Shimbun Three tourist associations of Niijima, Shikinejima and Kozushima islands, which all belong to the Izu Islands, have jointly completed an English sightseeing brochure. The brochure is based on “SPICE Three Islands,” a jointly issued Japanese brochure. The English version is aimed at attracting tourists from abroad to the islands ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games ... Click to play ... + -. Generating speech....
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