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Kjeld Duits
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Journalist, Photographer, Blogger & Founder, Japanese Streets
Japan
Beats
Biography
Japan correspondent and producer since 1995. Launched (currently dormant) Japanese Streets, the first English language blog about Japanese street fashion, in 2002. Launched Old Photos of Japan, "your personal museum for Japan’s visual heritage", in 2007.
Japan Between The 1850s And 1960s Natural Disasters , Japanese Culture
Stocks, sports
Content
By Kjeld Duits Verified| oldphotosjapan.com@ In July 1871 a strong typhoon devastated western Japan. It was one of the first strong typhoons that foreigners in the newly opened foreign settlements experienced and it shocked them tremendously. In Osaka and Hyogo prefectures alone some 700 people were killed. Even the sturdy brick buildings in Kobe’s brand new foreign settlement could barely withstand the storm’s fury. Japan had opened for international trade only twelve years earlier, in 1859 (Ansei 6).
By Kjeld Duits Verified| oldphotosjapan.com@ A traveller observes the Kisogawa River (木曽川) near Agematsu Juku (上松宿), the thirty-eighth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō, now located in Kiso (木曽), Nagano Prefecture. The past few weeks I have covered how travelers in old Japan crossed its many and often furious rivers: by ferry, piggybacking, or using countless bridges. Today I would like to share a beautiful account about traveling through Japan’s mountains by the Englishman Arthur H. Crow.
By Kjeld Duits Verified| oldphotosjapan.com@ In July 1871 a strong typhoon devastated western Japan. It was one of the first strong typhoons that foreigners in the newly opened foreign settlements experienced and it shocked them tremendously. In Osaka and Hyogo prefectures alone some 700 people were killed. Even the sturdy brick buildings in Kobe’s brand new foreign settlement could barely withstand the storm’s fury. Japan had opened for international trade only twelve years earlier, in 1859 (Ansei 6).
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Japanese Streets