The Japan.JPG CDROM contains 763 royalty-free, high-resolution (1280 x 1024), 24-bit jpeg images of Japan. You also get a lower resolution 800 x 600 image and thumbnails. Access these images easily with an easy to use Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows 3.1, or MS-DOS and Macintosh viewer.
David Leong is a comic artist with an intense interest in Japanese Animations. This interest resulted in David being selected to represent the city of Concord, California as a teacher and good-will ambassador to Concord's sister city of Kitakami, Japan.
Over the next two and a half years in the rural north of Japan, David traveled widely and always carried at least one camera. He carefully recorded the wonders of Japan as he saw them. From the northernmost island of Hokkaido, to the tragic memorials of Hiroshima in the south of the main island, David sought out the beautiful, the garish, the traditional, and the rampant modernity that makes Japan such a fascinating and occasionally frustrating place to live.
The categories on the CDROM are: • Festivals across Japan • Modern Japan • Monuments and statues • Palaces and castles • Landscapes, cityscapes, and oceanscapes • Shrines and temples
Some of the interesting images depected on the CDROM: • Hiroshima Memorial Dome • The Ginza district of Tokyo • The bullet train • The Daibutsu Buddha statue in Kamakura • The Imperial Palaces in Tokyo and Kyoto • The Golden Pavilion temple: Kinkankuji • The Silver Pavilion temple: Ginkankuji
