The Savage Japan Podcast is a series of soundseeing tours, interviews, and personal observations being recorded by an artist/athlete/filmmaker exploring and studying in Japan. The listener becomes a traveling companion and is immersed alongside the host during an extremely diverse series of adventures.
Locations and topics covered include activities in and around mountains, rivers, cities, villages, castles, trains, temples, shrines, museums, martial arts, festivals, food, cultural events of all types & many unusual discoveries, as well as issues involving the challenges faced while studying the language and developing friendships in my favorite foreign country.
The Living in Japan - Japan Photo Journal website is a separate photography, geotagging, and Japan information site created to work in tandem with the podcast episodes found here at SavageJapan.com.
At JapanPhotoJournal.com, there are interactive maps beneath each photo that reveal exactly where the photos were taken and where the Savage Japan podcast episodes were recorded.
-Dan
About Savage Japan
This photo was taken within a stone’s throw of where I currently reside when living in Japan.
The Philosopher’s Path in Kyoto, Tetsugaku no Michi, is named for Nishida Kitaro who was a prominent 20th century Japanese philosopher. Nishida is said to have walked along this quiet pathway for daily meditation and contemplative purposes. He also taught at nearby Kyoto University.
I feel very fortunate to have this opportunity to explore in Japan from a base location in what is probably the most fascinating city in the world and certainly the most fascinating city in Japan. We will be spending a lot of time outside of Kyoto during these 3 month visits to Japan, but there’s plenty to keep me busy in happy exploration mode right outside my door when I am in Kyoto.
There is a detailed description of the podcast at the top of the permanent left column of this site. The best overall introduction to this project can be found here in the first photo entry at JapanPhotoJournal.com.
For those who want more insight into the connection and differences between the Savage Japan and Savage Snow Podcasts, there is an overly thorough explanation here at the Savage Snow Podcast website.
Thank you for your interest in these recordings.
Please drop me a line sometime. 
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