Southwest Japan nonprofit seeks funds for museum on Edo period Italian missionary Sidotti
Italian missionary Giovanni Battista Sidotti (1668-1714) landed on southwestern Japan's island of Yakushima in 1708, when the country was･･･ ...
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Replica of Edo Castle tower on show at Imperial Palace in Tokyo
The tower doesn't quite scrape the skyline like the 59-meter-high main keep of Edo Castle once did, but the miniature version of it now at Tokyo's Imperial Palace is still nothing to sneeze at.