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28 images Created 3 May 2015

Japan

Ben is based in Nagoya, the industrial hub of Japan, with easy access by car or train to Kyoto, Osaka, and Tokyo. He is a contributor to NipponNews.net and AFLO, one of the largest editorial and commercial picture agencies in Japan.
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  • Shiroyama Hachiman Shrine<br />
Chinowa-kuguri Ritual
    Bon Odori at Shiroyama
  • Shiroyama Hachiman Shrine<br />
Chinowa-kuguri Ritual
    Bon Odori at Shiroyama
  • Female rice planters known as saotome perform during Oodaka-saiden Otaue-sai, a rice planting ceremony at Hikamianeko Shrine in Nagoya, Japan.
    Hikamianeko Rice Planting Festival
  • A tour guide pulls passengers in a rickshaw in Gion, a popular art and entertainment district in Kyoto, Japan.
    Kyoto Rickshaw Guide
  • Shiroyama Hachiman Shrine<br />
Chinowa-kuguri Ritual
    Bon Odori at Shiroyama_44.jpg
  • A man walks past an art installation at the NHK Building in Sakae, Nagoya, Japan.
    NHK Building
  • Tsukiji Market (築地市場 Tsukiji shijō)
    Tsukiji Market, Tokyo (1 of 6).jpg
  • Tsukiji Fish Market, Tokyo, Japan.
    Tsukiji Fish Market
  • Kegae-Jizo Lantern Festval at Shimada Jizo-ji
    Kegae-Jizo
  • JANUARY 14, 2016 - A shinto priest reads blessings during the Sagicho fire ceremony at Wakamiya Hachiman-sha shrine in Nagoya, Japan.
    Sagicho Ceremony
  • Tourists dressed as Geisha in Gion, a historical district in Kyoto.
    Geisha Makeup in Kyoto
  • at the Nagoya Festival in Nagoya, Japan.
    Nagoya Matsuri
  • Women wearing traditional clothing and carrying umbrellas walk in a parade at the 2015 Nagoya Festival in Nagoya, Japan.
    Nagoya Festival
  • Men carry a wooden phallus on a portable shrine during Honen-sai, a fertility festival at Tagata Shrine in Komaki, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The traditional Shinto festival celebrates fertility and a bountiful harvest. The principal offering during the festival is a large wooden phallus. Each year a craftsman carves a new phallus from a Japanese cypress tree. It measures almost 2.4 meters long and weighs 280kg.
    Japan_Penis_Festival_09.jpg
  • People try to catch rice cakes thrown from above during Honen-sai, a fertility festival at Tagata Shrine in Komaki, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The traditional Shinto festival celebrates fertility and a bountiful harvest.
    Japan_Penis_Festival_04.jpg
  • MARCH 18, 2016 - Tokyo, Japan. <br />
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(Photo by Ben Weller/AFLO) (JAPAN) [UHU]
    Shimbashi, Tokyo
  • A man launches handheld fireworks, known as tezutsu hanabi, during a spring festival at Matsudaira Tosho-gu, a Shinto shrine in Toyota, Japan.
    Tezutsu Hanabi_10.jpg
  • Osaka Municipal Central Wholesale Market, Osaka Japan
    Osaka Fish Market0015.jpg
  • Osaka Municipal Central Wholesale Market, Osaka Japan
    Osaka Fish Market0007.jpg
  • Osaka Municipal Central Wholesale Markets, Osaka, Japan.
    20151102_053.jpg
  • A fishmonger prepares a yellowfin tuna for sale at Yanagibashi Central Market in Nagoya, Japan.
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  • Sushi at Endo Sushi, a popular sushi restaurant located at Osaka Municipal Central Wholesale Market, Osaka, Japan.
    Endo Sushi Osaka
  • May 4, 2016 - People fight with kites at the Hamamatsu Festival in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. Teams build their own kites, measuring up to 3.5 by 3.5 meters, and then attempt to bring down the other teams' kites by flying them close together and using friction to burn the hemp kite strings. The festival, which celebrates new births, takes place May 3-5 and coincides with Children's Day.  (Photo by Ben Weller/AFLO) (JAPAN) [UHU]
    Hamamatsu Kite Festival
  • May 4, 2016 - People fight with kites at the Hamamatsu Festival in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. Teams build their own kites, measuring up to 3.5 by 3.5 meters, and then attempt to bring down the other teams' kites by flying them close together and using friction to burn the hemp kite strings. The festival, which celebrates new births, takes place May 3-5 and coincides with Children's Day.  (Photo by Ben Weller/AFLO) (JAPAN) [UHU]
    Hamamatsu Kite Festival
  • A family enters the water at Yuigahama Beach in Kamakura, Japan, about 45km south of Tokyo.
    Kamakura- Yuigahama Beach 2
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