Cartographer Ino Tadataka (1745-1818) was 55 years old when he set out on his first surveying trip in 1800 to chart the coast of Hokkaido ... of his completed map of Japan. Nevertheless, I ...

their imperial yellow shimmer filled the windows as my friend and I rattled along this once-moribund coastline. On 11 March 2011, communities along the north-eastern seaboard of Japan's biggest ...