A gloriously illustrated introduction to Japan today. Seeing Japan showcases the best of the country today with lavish, full-color
photographs and lively text. Introduced here is everything from the natural
beauty of the landscape to the everpopular traditional arts and customs, as well
as the high technology for which Japan is renowned the world over.
The islands of Japan form a crescent stretching from a subtropical twenty-four
degrees north latitude to a subarctic forty-five degrees, the same range as from
the state of Florida on the east coast of North America all the way up to Nova
Scotia in Canada. Part I presents the tremendous