A year on the main Japanese island near the Japan Sea in Fukui prefecture. Photos are grouped by topic, then chronologically, as well. The images come from the larger collection appearing in ebook form at Amazon in volume 1 (countryside) and volume 2 (city views) under the title "Life and Times Today in Rural Japan" by Guven Witteveen. Speaker notes give some details of the source subject. Caption (text box) is filled with placeholder text (file name), so the user can customize that part of the slide, according to purpose.

1. Rural Japan 2016-2017
87 selections from “Life and Times Today in Rural Japan”
ebook at amazon.com by Guven Peter Witteveen, derived from images
at flickr.com/photos/anthroview
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2. Early February – Setsubun: out with Evil in with Luck!

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4. Early morning 2/28/2017 downtown fire, Echizen-city, Fukui-ken

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10. Ink and brush – performance art accompanied by music improvisation

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16. June – Kagura outdoor theater and music troup

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34. April to September – castle excavation and citizen petition to conserve

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76. Fall festival at main Shinto shrine in downtown Echizen-city

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83. Early October – local elections, posters and rally

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87. October – Typhoon damage unseasonably late in the month

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