A collection of the specialized tools used to construct Japan’s beautiful architecture.

What's believed to be the country's first shrine is, in Shintō mythology, the annual meeting place of the gods.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.