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Monday, August 1, 2011

Sunflowers In Full Bloom In Fukui

A bee enjoys a full bloom sunflower at Ikegami sunflower farm on August 1, 2011 in Sakai city, Fukui, Japan. People in Japan are being encouraged to grow sunflowers with a goal of decontaminating soil made radioactive in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. In the process called phytoremediation plants have evolved to live in contaminated areas by eventually extracting toxics from the soil. Sunflowers have been used in the past to suck up radioactive cesium and strontium in a pond at the Chernobyl nuclear accident site back in 1994. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery) 4204

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Fukui Prefecture Begin Beef Radiation Test

A staff member of Fukui Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Science cuts and arranges beef to test the level of the radiation on July 27, 2011 in Fukui, Japan. Fukui Prefecture started to test beef for radiation contamination to ensure safe beef reaches markets from outside the prefecture. The Ministry of Agriculture announced yesterday that all beef detected with radioactive cesium higher than government safety standards from the Fukushima nuclear disaster will be purchased and destroyed by a meat industry group. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery)1051

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Sea Urchin Fishing Season Starts In Japan

Ama, female diver catches the sea urchins at Fukura Beach, Mikuni on July 21, 2011 in Fukui, Japan. Sea Urchins is one of expensive summer sea food in Japan. In Fukui prefecture, sea urchin fishing is allowed only the limited summer period. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery)8719

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Wind Turbine in Awara

A wind turbine stands at the costal side on July 23, 2011 in Awara city, Fukui, Japan. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery)

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Geisha Promote Awara Hot Spring in Fukui

A Geisha performs a traditional dance during the special event for the local tourist to make them familiar with geisha on July 13, 2011 in Awara city, Fukui, Japan. Awara hot spring city geisha has been more than 100 year history and presently 12 geisha women are living. There were more than 250 geisha Japanese economic growth period from 1955 to 1970. That was golden period of Awara geisha. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery) 2845

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Woman Walks Beside the Buddha Statue

A woman walks beside the Buddha statue at Eiehji temple on July 12,2011. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery)

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Sunset

Sunset over the Echizen beach in Fukui, Japan July 10, 2011. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery)

Monday, July 4, 2011

Handmade Paper Milling Tradition Continues in Japan

Workers filter pulp at a mill that produces handmade paper at Iwano Heizaburo Seishi Sho Company in Echizen paper village on July 4, 2011 in Fukui, Japan. Washi paper is a tough paper, used for traditional Japanese arts such as Origami and Shodo, most commonly made from bark of the mulberry, gampi or mitsumata. The paper milling process is a traditional craft of the Echizen people dating back 1500 years which continues today along with modern paper manufacturing. Echizen city is home to many paper businesses, as well as the cultural museum of paper and papyrus centre where visitors can make their own paper. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery)0328

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Japanese Traditional Tea Ceremony

A Japanese woman prepares green tea during a traditional style of tea ceremony at Yokokan historical building on June 25, 2011 in Fukui city, Japan.(Photo by Buddhika weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery) 9061

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Daylilies are in full bloom at Urinosato Kogen on June 25, 2011 in Sakai, Fukui Japan. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery) 9573

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Spectacle Frame Manufacturing Industry　in Japan

A worker checks spectacle frame on a production line at the Makoto Optical factory on June 16, 2011 in Sabae city, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. Over 90% of Japanese and 20% of the rest of the world use frames made in Sabae city. Sabae City recently created the world's longest chain of spectacle frames, measuring over 2km in length and using 16,830 frames, getting into the Guinness Book of World Records on May 5, 2011. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gellry) 8228

People Action Against to Use Nuclear Energy

An anti-nuclear activist holds a placard during a protest against nuclear energy in Osaka, Japan on June 11, 2011. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery)

Seagulls Live Alongside Nuclear Reactors In Japan

A seagull flies beside the Mihama nuclear reactor in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, Japan on June 10,2011. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery)

Wheat Harvesting Season Starts In Japan

FUKUI　CITY,　JUNE 09: A farmer harvests wheat with a combine harvester in a field during wheat harvesting season at Awara city, Fukui Prefecture, Japan on June 9, 2011. Japan has historically been one of Asia's largest purchasers of wheat from the U.S, Canada, and Australia. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery)4902

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World’s third major dinosaur museum

A man walks beside the skeletons of life size dinosaurs displayed inside the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum in Katsuyama, about 297 kilometres (184.5miles) west Tokyo, Japan on June 6, 2011. Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery. 844Y 4339