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Japan

Voyages round their father
19 May 2002
Scalding hot tubs, exquisite Buddhas and, yes, even football.

Japan: My towel was tiny, and it went on my head
04 March 2002
Ally Ireson goes Japanese and tries the open-air tubs at a resort by Mt Fuji.

World Cup: The Venues
12 November 2001
Busan: Better known as Pusan, South Korea's second city and largest port is at its south-eastern tip.

World Cup Travel: The Complete Guide
10 November 2001
The World Cup begins on the last day of May, and ends on the last day of June, hosted jointly by Japan and South Korea.

Grand tours: Jules Verne takes Phileas Fogg ashore
10 September 2001
The series that follows the world's great writers on their adventures in literature

Japan: An expanse of blossom, and tea for Buddha
09 April 2001
Adam Dudding visits Nara in Japan, where they party at the drop of a petal

Japan: Insider's guide to Osaka
04 February 2001
What's the weather like now?

The geisha girl unmasked
12 November 2000
Lesley Downer explores a vanishing world of cakes, cat-skin banjos, and endlessly complex make-up

Ocean Dome: The best thing about this most perfect of beaches is that one visit is sufficient for a lifetime
16 July 2000
What could possibly be wrong with going to a beach where there was not the slightest risk of drowning in the surf, getting sunburnt, being stung by jellyfish, cutting your toes, standing in dog-poo, inhaling rotten fish or swallowing sewage?

Tokyo: The city that's stranger than fiction
25 June 2000
Richard Lloyd Parry on how to embrace the extraordinary attractions of Toyko

The complete guide to Japan
13 May 2000
There's much more to Japan than Tokyo neon, techno frenzy and the tea ceremony.

The painted lady, the sake nightcap and the sound of slurped noodles
30 April 2000
Japan: Kevin Pilley survives the Japanese equivalent of a pub crawl, with the aid of the tastiest of hangover cures

The place that changed me
16 January 2000
Twenty-five years ago the rock star found Japan impenetrable.

The island of the old
21 November 1999
On the Japanese island of Oshima, young people are in such short supply that they put up mannequins instead.

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