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Hiroji Kubota - ASIA. Can we feed ourselves?
China. Baotou, Nei Mongol. 1984. From about 7:30 a.m., Gangtie Rd. In Baotou is filled with people on bicycles commuting to work at the Baotou Steel Mills. The ...
VIETNAM. 1999. Farmers transplanting rice near Sa Pa, Vietnam.
CHINA. Anzhangxiang, Hunan. 1998. Flooding plagues the northern part of the Hunan Province almost every year and is caused by the water level of its four rivers
CHINA. Jiaxian, Shaanxi.1998. Jiaxian is located about there hundred kilometers northeast of Yan'an. In this area is a large plateau of loess, yellowish-brown l...
CHINA. Jiaxian, Shaanxi.1998. Jiaxian is located about there hundred kilometers northeast of Yan'an. In this area is a large plateau of loess, yellowish-brown l...
CHINA. Urumqi. 1999. At the main square of Xinziang's capital, Urmqi.
CHINA. Xinjiang. 1999. Bread vendor in Kashgar's market.
CHINA. Xinjiang. 1999. Uygur children near Hotan.
CHINA. Xinjiang. 1999. Uygur family near Hotan.
INDONESIA. Wamena. Irian Jaya. 1998. A special dish called Masak, eaten only at funerals and weddings.
CHINA. Baotou, Nei Mongol. 1984. From about 7:30 a.m., Gangtie Rd. In Baotou is filled with people on bicycles commuting to work at the Baotou Steel Mills. The ...
CHINA. Xinjiang. 1999. From Hotan, I rode in a four-wheel-drive vehicle and headed for the Kunlun Mountains. About ten minutes after leaving Hotan proper we wer...
CHINA. Nanxian, Hunan. 1998. The flooding damage in Nanxian was also terrible. I talked with Bi Jianjian, whose home was swept away, forcing him and his family ...
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 1999. Brisk activity marks mornings near the central market. The citizens of Phnom Penh enjoy a breakfast of noodles and Chinese tea or de...
INDIA. Amristar, Punjab. 1999. Amristar is famous as the site of the head temple of Sikhism. Sikhs are deeply religious and many of them succeed in the military...
CHINA. Dali, Yunnan. 1984. The town of Dali is situated on a plateau in the northwest part of Yunnan Province. The people here are mainly of Bin nationality. To...
CHINA. Paizhouwuan, Hubei. 1998. Early on the morning of August 1, 1998, during heavy rain, the levee of the Chang Jiang River (Yangtze River) suddenly burst in...
INDONESIA. Bali. 1996. Balinese bury their dead soon after they die. Every ten years or so, however, each village exhumes bodies and cremates them in a joint ce...
CHINA. Kashgar, Xinjiang. 1999. The back streets of the old section of Kashgar are mazelike, though the type of stone used in a road tell you, for instance, whe...
INDIA. Panipat, Haryana. 1999. A chance encounter put me together with a group of herdsmen from Rajasthan State. It was the dry season, and the herdsmen were on...
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 1999. Terribly deep scars remain in Cambodia from the long years of fighting. One wonders how the Cambodians, such a gentle race of people...
BANGLADESH. Dhaka. 1999. Sadarghat is the central section of old Dhaka. Many workers commute from across the Buriganga River, landing here and then going on to ...
CHINA. Kashgar, Xinjiang.1999. In the center of the old section of Kashgar stands the Id Kah Mosque, built many centuries ago. For the first prayers on Friday a...
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 1999. Victims of landmines are seen in Phnom Penh eking out a living as beggars. Children sell items such as newspapers and cigarettes. In...
PHILIPPINES. Manila. 1998. Chinatown is one of the business centers of Manila, and Dondo is the citys largest slum area. Recto Avenue, which runs between the tw...
VIETNAM. Can Tho. 1997. Can Tho is the largest city in the Mekong Delta. About thirty kilometers sound of Can Tho is Phung Hiep, a town with a floating marketpl...
MYANMAR (Burma).Mandalay. 1986. Because of irrigation problems, most farmers on Myanmar(Burma) grow only one crop of rice a year. After enough rain falls during...
CHINA. Lhasa, Xizang. 1983. Butter made from the milk of yaks is an essential food for Tibetans. Besides butter-called ma in Tibetan-cheese and yogurt are also...
NEPAL. Kathmandu. 1998. Many important historic buildings line the area around Durbar Square in downtown Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. In the southwestern se...
CHINA. Kashgar, Xinjiang. 1999. Kashgar is the most western city of China, located about five thousand kilometers from Beijing. It is also the cultural center o...
PHILIPPINES. Manila. 1995. The Philippines has more Catholics than any other country in Asia. In 1995, Pope John Paul II visited Manila and celebrated outdoor M...
PHILIPPINES. Tawitawi. 1997. The ocean in this area has a coral reef, and the water is perfectly clear, making Tawitawi seemingly a paradise. The fishermen, tho...
NEPAL. Bhaktapur. 1998. Mornings during the winter throughout the Kathmandu basin are often foggy, turning Bhaktapur with its rows of buildings seemingly from t...
CHINA. Sandouping, Hubei. 1998. Construction of the world's largest dam, the Three Gorges Dam, began in 1993. It is scheduled for completion in 2009. In buildin...
MYANMAR (Burma). Inle Shan. 1986. The members of the Intha Tribe in Shan State live on Inle Lake. Because they live on the water and thus don't get much exerci...
NORTH KOREA. Pyongyang. 1992. On April 15, 1992, about fifty thousand students and school children were mobilized in a mass game to celebrate the eightieth birt...
PHILIPPINES. Mindanao. 1997. Spraying a banana field.
VIETNAM. Hong Gai. 1997. Halong Bay is called the "Guilin of the Sea." It is one of Vietnam's most picturesque spots. Because it is situated just south of the b...
CHINA. Shanghai. 1996. On the nights before major holidays, such as National Day (October 1), celebrating the founding of the PeopleÕs Republic of China, and Ma...
INDIA. Calcutta. 1999. A trash dump on a corner lot in the city draws crows and ragpickers. Scenes like this are not uncommon in many Asian cities. On the other
INDIA. Calcutta. 1999. Calcutta's air is polluted by emissions from motor vehicles with poorly maintained diesel engines, the smoke from factory chimneys, and t...
INDIA. Mumbai (Bombay). 1999. During the morning rush hour, trains arriving at the Victoria Terminus every five minutes or so from the suburbs of Mumbai are so ...
NEPAL. Lukla. 1998. Lukla, a village located about 150 kilometers northeast of Kathmandu, Nepal's capital, I encircled by several six-thousand-meter mountains. ...
THAILAND. Naisoi, Mae Hong Son 1999. The members of the Padaung Tribe in Kaya State in Myanmar (Burma) traditionally engage in farming. For more than ten years,...
CHINA. De'an, Jiangxi. 1998. Together with Sandong Province, Jiangxi Province is China's center of duck farms. The ducks used for preparing the famous Beijing d...
INDIA. Calcutta. 1999. Mother and child, early morning in busy downtown Calcutta live in poverty.
CHINA. Guilin, Guangxi. 1980. Guilin has a rainy period that begins between the third week in March and the second week in April. About two weeks afterward, the...
VIETNAM. Sa Pa.1999. H'mong & Zao tribes at market on Sunday. Children's hands stained from dying clothes.
INDIA. Jaipur, Rajasthan. 1998. Castle walls enclose the old city section of Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan State. Because the castle walls and the walls of t...
CHINA. Jiaxian, Shaanxi. 1998. Jiaxian is located about there hundred kilometers northeast of Yan'an. In this area is a large plateau of loess, yellowish-brown ...
INDIA. Calcutta. 1999. Early morning in Calcutta sees the food stalls on the streets preparing for the days business. Many young boys work in these stalls. Besi...
INDIA. Darbhanga, Bihar. 1999. Among the persons who suffered from flooding in this area, perhaps those who were able to live temporarily in tents put up on tow...
INDONESIA. Pematangsianstar, Sumatra. 1998. With annual production of four million tons, Indonesia is the world's second largest producer of palm oil, nest only...
INDIA. Darbhanga, Bihar. 1999. In India, the monsoon season reaches its peak in July and August. When it starts raining during these two months it doesnÕt stop
CHINA. Turpan, Xinjiang.1983. The Gobi Desert stretches across Nei Mongol, Gansu, and Xinjiang. Here in Turpan, it is called the "Great Gobi Desert", to differe...
INDIA. Gaya, Bihar. 1999. Bihar is India's poorest state. Not far from Bodh Gaya, on of Buddhism's holiest places, I came across a spot where thousands of worke...
INDONESIA. Tabang, Kalimantan. 1996. A tropical rain forest second in size only to that seen in the Amazon basin used to exit in Kalimantan, the southern half o...
NEPAL. Bhadrapur. 1998. The city of Bhadrapur is located at Nepal's southernmost point, just ten kilometers from India's West Bengal State. The climate in this ...
INDIA. Muzaffarpur, Bihar. 1999. Floods hit the northern part of Bihar State every year during the monsoon season. Part of the reason for the flooding is that a...
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 1999. Men and women, old and young alike, work for hours taking the guts out of small fish caught in the Mekong River. Many children don't
CHINA. Daqing, Heilongjiang. 1982. In the winter in the cold northeastern part of China (former Manchuria), fishermen fish on rivers and lakes by opening holes ...
CHINA.Turpan. Xinjiang. 1984. People are often dig wells in the Gobi Desert to reach underground water.
MYANMAR (Burma). Pagan. 1986. For about two hundred years from the middle of the eleventh century, the Pagan Dynasty ruled this country and enjoyed greatly pros...
INDONESIA. Wamena, Irian Jaya. 1998. The flight from Jakarta to Jayapura, the capital of Irian Jaya Province, takes nine hours. Another hours southward aboard a...
INDIA. Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. 1998. The area around Jaisalmer, on the western edge of India, near the border with Pakistan, has many military installations. Th...
NEPAL. Bhaktapur. 1998. Bhaktapur, Nepal's ancient capital, is about 10 kilometers east of downtown Kathmandu. Kathmandu, Bhaktapur, and Patan-a city bordering ...
VIETNAM. Ben Tre. 1999. The most affluent area in the Mekong Delta is the Can Tho Provience. Farmers in Can Tho harvest four rice crops a year. Ben Tre, however...
PHILIPPINES. Manila. 1995. In November 1996, on the occasion of hosting a meeting of the APEC countries in Subic City, situated over 100 kilometers west of Mani...
INDIA. Delhi. 1999. On "Chawri Bazar" Street, men squat in front of restaurants until someone pays for food.