Buddhika Weerasinghe

Saturday, August 25, 2012

Daily Life In Japan's Largest Korean Town

A woman rides bicycle through the Korean Town at Ikuno, which is largest and famous Korean town in Japan on August 25, 2012 in Osaka, Japan. Ikuno Korean town is three hundred meters long shopping street with 150 Korean food and clothes stores, which is located between Tsuruhashi and Momodani JR station in Osaka. Japan and South Korea raise diplomatic tension triggered by South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak's visit to Takeshima Island on August 10, 2012. Japan Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda criticizing that South Korean President Lee Myung Bak's recent visit to Takeshima as 'illegal' according to Japan media. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images)

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Village Mud Festival

Japanese festival-goers play in the mud during the village mud festival at Yumesaki on August 19, 2012 in Himeji, Japan. The festival is held to encourage youths of the village to participate in the community. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe)

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Kobe Seaside Bon Dance

Japanese man performs traditional Japanese dance during the Bon Dance festival on August 18,2012 in Kobe, Japan. That festival held ending period of Obon. Obon is an annual Buddhist event for commemorate to dead people as period of 13 to 15 of August is called Obon. Japanese Buddhists believed that each year during Obon the ancestral sprit return to their home in order to visit their relatives. Most Japanese go back to their native place in these days. People bring paper lanterns to their graves and bring their ancestral souls with candlelight back to their home on 13 of August and bring them back to their brave on 15 August. The huge symbol of fires and lantern guide to ancestral spirits back to where they come from. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe)

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Anti-nuclear activists protset in Hiroshima

Anti-nuclear activists march during a protest around the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on August 6, 2012 in Hiroshima. Japan. Japan marks the 67th anniversary of the first atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima by the United States on August 6, 1945, killing an estimated 70,000 people instantly with many thousands more dying over the following years from the effects of radiation. Three days later another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, ending World War II. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe)

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Japanese people stage a die-in protest in front of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, commonly called the Atomic Bomb Dome at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on August 6, 2012 in Hiroshima. Japan. Tomorrow marks the 67th anniversary of the first atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima by the United States on August 6, 1945, killing an estimated 70,000 people instantly with many thousands more dying over the following years from the effects of radiation. Three days later another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, ending World War II. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe)

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Hiroshima To Mark 67th Anniversary Of Atomic Bomb

People visit the monument for atomic bomb vicitims at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on August 5, 2012 in Hiroshima. Japan. Tomorrow marks the 67th anniversary of the first atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima by the United States on August 6, 1945, killing an estimated 70,000 people instantly with many thousands more dying over the following years from the effects of radiation. Three days later another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, ending World War II. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe)

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Traditional Himeji Takigi Noh Is Performed In Japan

Traditional Japanese Noh actors perform during the annual Himeji Takigi Noh Performance at Himeji Castel on August 3, 2012 in Himeji, Japan. Takigi- Noh, or outdoor firelight Noh performance, dates back over thousand years and is performed in the darkness of the evening. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe)

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Cormorant Fishing Takes Place in Kyoto

A female cormorant fishing master Sawaki Mariko 38, uses a burning lantern and birds as she fishes on the Uji river on July 30, 2012 in Kyoto, Japan. The anciant fishing system, which sees fishermen use fire lanterns to illuminate the river to assist cormorants in catching their prey, runs from July to September in Arashiyama and Uji annually. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe)

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Exclusive Dog Beach Attracts Dog Lovers

Japanese man and his pet dog, Marine bath in the water at Takeno Beach on July 28, 2012 in Toyooka, Japan. This beach is especially open for dogs and their owners each summer between the months of June and September. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe)

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Anti-Nuclear Protest Continues In Japan

Anti-nuclear activists hold a protest against restarting the commercial nuclear reactors on July 27, 2012 in Osaka, Japan. Two of Japan's commercial nuclear reactors restarted after shut down due to safety concerns in the wake of the meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 plant in March 2011. Fifty commercial nuclear reactors are in Japan. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe)

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Japanese Yamabushi

Japanese man as Yamabushi, mountain ascetic performs a sacred fire ritual during a religious annual ceremony on 22 July, 2012 in Kyoto, Japan. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe)

Tourists Visit Tottori Sand Dune in Japan

Two children walk on Tottori sand dunes on July 21, 2012 in Tottori, Japan. The dunes are over 30 km² but are decreasing in size as a result of the reforestation program following World War II. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe)

Sand Sculptures Exhibited At Tottori Dune

Japanese woman walks beside of sand replica titled 'British Science ? Charles Robert Darwin' during the event of sand made olympic gold medal and logos carve at Sand Museum located in the Tottori Dun on July 20, 2012 in Tottori, Japan. Tottori Sand Museum is world's first ever sand museum and this year hosts their 5th exhibition, focusing on the theme of Great Britain as the nation celebrates hosting of the London 2012 Olympic Games. The exhibition is open to the public from April 14 to January, 2013. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe)

Japanese people put the finishing touches to a sand sculpture titled London Olympic Gold Medal and Logos, at Sand Museum located in the Tottori Dune on July 20, 2012 in Tottori, Japan. Tottori Sand Museum is world's first ever sand museum and this year hosts their 5th exhibition, focusing on the theme of Great Britain as the nation celebrates hosting of the London 2012 Olympic Games. The exhibition is open to the public from April 14 to January, 2013. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images)

Sunflowers In Full Bloom - Sayo

People walk through a sunflower field in full bloom on July 18, 2012 in Sayo, Japan. Approximately 1.2 million sunflowers are planted in 24.1 hectares at six sunflower fields in the city of Sayo. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe)