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  • Stall selling girls' manga. TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET" the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
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  • Stall selling dolls inspired by manga and anime. TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET" the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8508.jpg
  • Cosplayer dressed up as "Yuri", a character from the anime "DIRTY PAIR" posing, while photographers, mainly amature, photograph her. Cosplay usualy atracts many amature photographers who enjoy collecting cosplay photos, especialy of girls dressed in sexy costumes. TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET" the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8406.jpg
  • Cosplayers dressed up as characters from the anime "NEON GENNESIS EVANGELION". "Rei" (front), "Atsuka" (R) & "Kaoru" (back). TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET" the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8400.jpg
  • Cosplayers dressed up as characters from the anime "SAVER FORMULA". "Bleed Kaga" (L), "Jackie Gudelhian" (C) & "Franz Heinel". TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET" the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8378.jpg
  • Cosplayers dressed up as characters from the anime "SAVER FORMULA". "Bleed Kaga" (L), "Jackie Gudelhian" (C) & "Franz Heinel". TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET" the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8371.jpg
  • Cosplayer dressed up as anime drama character "MASKED RIDER" HIBIKI. (http://fete.cside.com/ferio). TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET" the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8303.jpg
  • Stall selling dolls inspired by manga, anime and computer-games characters. TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET" the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8510.jpg
  • Stall sellingg pictures and posters of anime, manga and computer-games characters. TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET" the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8506.jpg
  • Stall sellingg pictures and posters of anime, manga and computer-games characters. TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET" the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8504.jpg
  • Cosplayer dressed as "Abel Nighthroad", character from anime "TRINITY BLOOD". TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET" the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8440.jpg
  • Cosplayers dressed as "Narutono Kakashi" anime character. TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET" the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8417.jpg
  • Cosplayer dressed up as "Yuri", a character from the anime "DIRTY PAIR" posing, while photographers, mainly amature, photograph her. Cosplay usualy atracts many amature photographers who enjoy collecting cosplay photos, especialy of girls dressed in sexy costumes. TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET" the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8412.jpg
  • Cosplayers dressed up as characters from the anime "NEON GENNESIS EVANGELION". "Rei" (L), "Atsuka" (C) & "Kaoru" (R). TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET" the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8395.jpg
  • Cosplayer dressed as "Narutono Kakashi" anime character. TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET" the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8427.jpg
  • Cosplayer dressed as "Narutono Kakashi" anime character. TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET" the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8420.jpg
  • Cosplayers dressed up as "Papillon Roze" (L) & "Papillon Lilly" (R) animation characters (http://www.ayaya.co.jp/papillon_index.html). TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET" the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8277.jpg
  • "SCHOOL SWEETS XR" adult manga stall. TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET" the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8569.jpg
  • Bottles kept by customers in Maid cafe and izakaia (traditional bar-restaurant) HIYOKOYA. Their decoration is a picture of a maid on the bottle and the anime figures are typical OTAKU collection items. The messages above (In frames) are from famous customers. Comic and animation  designers, actors, musicians etc.
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  • "SCHOOL SWEETS XR" adult manga stall. Designer "Haine Umino" has been designing HS for 15 years. TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET" the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
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  • TORTURE GARDEN PARTY in club YELLOW - Tokyo.The organisers of Torture Garden Japan describe their club as an underground culture club rather than one that is restricted soley to the sm/ fetish scene. .This group is most likely coming to a fetish party to dress up, as opposed to get involved in any sm play. Many of the patrons of fetish clubs in Tokyo are essentially into the fashion, image and aesthetics of fetishism rather than sadomasochistic sexuality. Clubs such as rubber brain and torture garden provide spaces for these people to express themselves through their clothing in a supportive environment. Hence the fantasy element of these fetish clubs need not always be sexual. Some patrons come as their favorite anime or SF character and get inherent enjoyment and empowerment out of living out a fantasy life that is often directly contradictive of their
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  • "ROZEN MAIDEN" manga stall. The designer and writer "Saya Asahina" has been publishing her comic for 15 years. The story is about "Love between Doll and Human" as she described it. TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET" the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8591.jpg
  • TORTURE GARDEN PARTY in club YELLOW - Tokyo..A girl that is most likely coming to a fetish party to dress up, as opposed to get involved in any sm play. Many of the patrons of fetish clubs in Tokyo are essentially into the fashion, image and aesthetics of fetishism rather than sadomasochistic sexuality. Clubs such as rubber brain and torture garden provide spaces for these people to express themselves through their clothing in a supportive environment. Hence the fantasy element of these fetish clubs need not always be sexual. Some patrons come as their favorite anime or SF character and get inherent enjoyment and empowerment out of living out a fantasy life that is often directly contradictive of their
    39TG_0683.jpg
  • "ROZEN MAIDEN" manga stall. The designer and writer "Saya Asahina" has been publishing her comic for 15 years. The story is about "Love between Doll and Human" as she described it. TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET" the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8606.jpg
  • Cosplayer dressed as "Sagitarius", character from the action game "SAINT SEIYA".  TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET" the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8469.jpg
  • Cosplayes dressed as "the Pope" (L), "Athena" (C) and "Sagitarius" (R), characters from the action game "SAINT SEIYA".  TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET" the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8463.jpg
  • Cosplayers dressed up as characters from the fighting game "VAMPIRE SAVER", "Bareta" (L) & "Sasukachi" (R). TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET".the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8347.jpg
  • Cosplayer dressed up as "Jin" (http://blog.livedoor.jp/onihanabi/), character from manga "BLEACH". TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET".the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8319.jpg
  • Cosplayers dressed up as "Jin" (L) (http://blog.livedoor.jp/onihanabi/) and Byakuya (R), characters from manga "BLEACH" TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET".the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8315.jpg
  • "ROZEN MAIDEN" manga stall. The designer and writer "Saya Asahina" has been publishing her comic for 15 years. The story is about "Love between Doll and Human" as she described it. TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET" the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8585.jpg
  • Toy stall. TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET" the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8542.jpg
  • "Otaku" with his purchases. TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET" the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8521.jpg
  • The "CHISE" adventure game stall ( http://www.klon.jp/chise/ )  . TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET" the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8500.jpg
  • Cosplayer dressed as "Aries", character from the action game "SAINT SEIYA".  TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET" the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8471.jpg
  • Cosplayer dressed up as "Jedah" character from the fighting game "VAMPIRE SAVER". TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET" the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8357.jpg
  • Cosplayer dressed up as "Bareta", character from the fighting game "VAMPIRE SAVER". On the back is "Sasukachi", character from the same game. TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET".the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8344.jpg
  • Cosplayers dressed up as "Jin" (L) (http://blog.livedoor.jp/onihanabi/) and Byakuya (R), characters from manga "BLEACH". TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET".the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8312.jpg
  • Posing for a mobile phone photo. Cosplayers dressed up in the popular among cosplayers waitresses uniforms. TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET".the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8286.jpg
  • Cosplayers dressed up in the popular among cosplayers waitresses uniforms. TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET".the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8282.jpg
  • "SCHOOL SWEETS XR" adult manga stall. Story writer "Amagai Takahiro" has been writing the story for the last 6 years. TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET" the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8573.jpg
  • Cosplayer dressed as "Sagitarius", character from the action game "SAINT SEIYA".  TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET" the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8476.jpg
  • Cosplayer dressed up as "BYAKUYA" character from manga "BLEACH".  TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET".the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8322.jpg
  • Cosplayers dressed up in the popular among cosplayers waitresses uniforms. TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET".the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center. Tokyo 30 Dec. 2005
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  • Stall selling toys with manga characters. TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET" the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8536.jpg
  • Cosplayers dressed as "Brigit" (L) and "Solbadguy" (R) characters from action/fighting game "GUILTY GEAR". TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET" the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8452.jpg
  • Cosplayer dressed up as "Jedah" character from the fighting game "VAMPIRE SAVER". TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET" the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8348.jpg
  • Manga stall. TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET" the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8578.jpg
  • Stall selling cushion covers and posters with manga characters. TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET" the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8511.jpg
  • Cosplayers dressed up in the popular among cosplayers waitresses uniforms. TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET".the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8291.jpg
  • Cosplayer dressed up as "Jedah" character from the fighting game "VAMPIRE SAVER". TOKYO COMIC MARKET "COMIKET".the biggest comic market in Japan. Independent designers come to sell their comics, there is anime, manga, cosplay, toys, posters etc. At "Tokyo Big Sight" exhibition center.
    COMIKET_8354.jpg
  • Shiraki, 36, is a web designer who collects manga and figurines from the seminal Japanese anime series Mobile Suit Gundam. He started collecting manga in elementary school, but got into figures only about four years ago. He has more than 1,000 manga books of all kinds and about 300 figures. He spends about 50,000 yen a month for figurines and 50,000 a month for manga. He reads manga for about three hours everyday at home and one hour commuting on the train.
    TadaoShiraki.jpg
  • MIYABI: Maid in HIYOKOYAMAI cafe-restaurant..Bottles kept by customers in Maid cafe and izakaia (traditional bar-restaurant) HIYOKOYA. Their decoration is a picture of a maid on the bottle and the anime figures are typical OTAKU collection items.
    AKIHABARA_MAIDS_1521.jpg
  • Harada Mariru is one of the "Nakano Fujoshi Sisters" idol band. She was named Race Queen of the Year in 2006, but in her room you won't find fashion makeup and designer shoes. In their place are 13,000 manga (enough to earn her the title "manga sommelier"), 1,000 limited edition anime DVDs, and 7,000 videogames, including dating simulator games of the sort popular among lonely men. "I have given up on the three-dimensional world," says the model, singer and tarento. "I try to look normal when I go outside, but that's the extent of it."
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  • Achaeoligy museum of Olympia. The altar of Zeus<br />
The great altar of Zeus, no trace of which survives today, is believed to have stood in the space between the Heraion and the Pelopion. <br />
According to the traveller Pausanias (V.13.8-10) the altar was circular or elliptical. It consisted of the “prothysis” (a base with a circumference of some 37 m), and the altar proper, which had been formed on top of the “prothysis” by the ashes of the sacrificed animals. The height of the altar, which was conical in shape, is calculated to have been about 7 m. <br />
On the fourth day of the Olympic Games the great sacrifice of a hundred oxen was performed, the hecatomb, in which the thighs of the animals were burnt on top of the altar. <br />
In the thick layer of ash from the altar, which was over a large radius around it, probably in late Geometric times, the excavators brought to light a huge quantity of clay and bronze figurines of the Geometric period, the votive offerings of the faithful.
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  • Sunday morning church service at Akha village Huei Naam Kun that is located in the mountains near Chiang Rai. The village has become Christian during the last 10 years. Before that it followed the traditional animism Acha religion.
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  • TOYAMA MEDICINE .In the lab of "Kokando" traditional medicine company. The final product of the company is based in bear's bile. Kokando, one of the oldest medicine companies in Toyama, was founded in 1876.  The bile is now produced in the company's lab as currently in Japan it is illegal to hunt bears for their bile or to sell bear's bile, unless under a special license. The black bears from which the bile was originaly extracted are protected species. In China it is still possible to get real bear's bile and animal's rights organizations protest against the cruel ways with which the bile is extracted from living bears through years of keeping them in captivity in bile farms. .Toyama prefecture is located near the center of Japan and is approximately the same distance from the three largest cities in Japan-Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka. Toyama's pharmaceutical tradition has a more than 300 years history. As it is located on the Japan sea, it is facing China and has been an importer of traditional Chinese medicine knowledge which it developed through the years. There are now approximately 100 manufactures and over 100 factories in Toyama in terms of pharmaceutical products and Toyama prefecture acquires a steady reputation as Japan's medicine manufacturing base. Toyama, Japan. 21 Dec 2007
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  • TOYAMA MEDICINE.Basic material for producing traditional medicine, displayed in "Kanaoka residence" in Toyama city. From left to right: 1. ?? pronounced as "denshichi" is a kind of ginnseng, 2. ?? pronounced as " borei" is a kind of oyster, 3. ?? pronounced as "yuutan" is black bear's bile and it is a very precious ingredient in Chinese medicine. Currently in Japan it is illegal to hunt bears for their bile or to sell bear's bile, unless under a special license. The ingredient that has replaced it in traditional medicine, is produced synthetically in laboratories of traditional medicine pharmaceutical companies. In China it is still possible to get real bear's bile and animal's rights organizations protest against the cruel ways with which the bile is extracted from living bears through years of keeping them in captivity in bile farms.  Kanaoka Residence is a rare museum in Japan that preserves and exhibits a lot of materials of the 300-year history of Toyama's medicine business as well as a wide range of materials relating to Japan's pharmaceutical industry. Its main building retains the characteristic structure of a medicine shop from the early Meiji Era. Araya (family's guesthouse) is an all-cypress building that shows a traditional wooden structure.Toyama prefecture is located near the center of Japan and is approximately the same distance from the three largest cities in Japan-Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka. Toyama's pharmaceutical tradition has a more than 300 years history. As it is located on the Japan sea, it is facing China and has been an importer of traditional Chinese medicine knowledge which it developed through the years. There are now approximately 100 manufactures and over 100 factories in Toyama in terms of pharmaceutical products and Toyama prefecture acquires a steady reputation as Japan's medicine manufacturing base.
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  • TOYAMA MEDICINE.Workers or "Kokando" traditional medicine company, putting the plastic cover on the packaging of the medicine that is based on bear's bile (from gall bladder). Kokando, one of the oldest medicine companies in Toyama, was founded in 1876.  The bile is now produced in the company's lab as currently in Japan it is illegal to hunt bears for their bile or to sell bear's bile, unless under a special license. The black bears from which the bile was originaly extracted are protected species. In China it is still possible to get real bear's bile and animal's rights organizations protest against the cruel ways with which the bile is extracted from living bears through years of keeping them in captivity in bile farms. .Toyama prefecture is located near the center of Japan and is approximately the same distance from the three largest cities in Japan-Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka. Toyama's pharmaceutical tradition has a more than 300 years history. As it is located on the Japan sea, it is facing China and has been an importer of traditional Chinese medicine knowledge which it developed through the years. There are now approximately 100 manufactures and over 100 factories in Toyama in terms of pharmaceutical products and Toyama prefecture acquires a steady reputation as Japan's medicine manufacturing base. Toyama, Japan. 21 Dec 2007
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  • TOYAMA MEDICINE.The final product of "Kokando" traditional medicine company, that is based in bear's bile, in the company's lab. Kokando, one of the oldest medicine companies in Toyama, was founded in 1876.  The bile is now produced in the company's lab as currently in Japan it is illegal to hunt bears for their bile or to sell bear's bile, unless under a special license. The black bears from which the bile was originaly extracted are protected species. In China it is still possible to get real bear's bile and animal's rights organizations protest against the cruel ways with which the bile is extracted from living bears through years of keeping them in captivity in bile farms. .Toyama prefecture is located near the center of Japan and is approximately the same distance from the three largest cities in Japan-Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka. Toyama's pharmaceutical tradition has a more than 300 years history. As it is located on the Japan sea, it is facing China and has been an importer of traditional Chinese medicine knowledge which it developed through the years. There are now approximately 100 manufactures and over 100 factories in Toyama in terms of pharmaceutical products and Toyama prefecture acquires a steady reputation as Japan's medicine manufacturing base. Toyama, Japan. 21 Dec 2007
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  • TOYAMA MEDICINEWorkers or "Kokando" traditional medicine company as they are processing medicine that is based on bear's bile. It comes out as a paste which they shape and cut to plates that later will be cut to small pieces and packaged in boxes. Kokando, one of the oldest medicine companies in Toyama, was founded in 1876.  The bile is now produced in the company's lab as currently in Japan it is illegal to hunt bears for their bile or to sell bear's bile, unless under a special license. The black bears from which the bile was originaly extracted are protected species. In China it is still possible to get real bear's bile and animal's rights organizations protest against the cruel ways with which the bile is extracted from living bears through years of keeping them in captivity in bile farms. .Toyama prefecture is located near the center of Japan and is approximately the same distance from the three largest cities in Japan-Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka. Toyama's pharmaceutical tradition has a more than 300 years history. As it is located on the Japan sea, it is facing China and has been an importer of traditional Chinese medicine knowledge which it developed through the years. There are now approximately 100 manufactures and over 100 factories in Toyama in terms of pharmaceutical products and Toyama prefecture acquires a steady reputation as Japan's medicine manufacturing base. Toyama, Japan. 21 Dec 2007
    30_TOYAMA_MEDICINE_7276 (1).jpg
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