Brian San and Elizabeth San prepare for a Japanese banquet. We didn't recognise most of the food. Liz commented to the person next to her that she wasn't keen to eat the sea urchin. Here neighbour replied, "You've eaten it."

Watch stopped at the moment the atmoic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. We found the memorial there almost unbearably moving. It reafirmed my view that there is only one source of evil in the world - the human mind.

The famous floating torri at Itsukushima Island, Japan.

Mountain and lake at Bandai National Park, Japan.

The bullet train at Hiroshima. Fast, smooth and very clean. Because of this, not every exiting!

The only standing building after the bomb at Hiroshima, Japan.

A garden in Hiroshima, Japan.

A shop at Ebisutai, Japan.

Courtyard of a house at Ebisutai, an ancient village in Japan.

A torri gate at the Shinto Shrian at Iso Grande, Japan.