A festival of sand sculptures began Saturday in Tottori Sand Dune in Tottori Prefecture, featuring works by artists from more than 10 countries based on… ...full story at Japan Today
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Whale sand sculpture at Bondi Beach »
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Greenpeace activists and sand sculptors put whaling on trial with a giant 17m sand sculpture of a fin whale on Bondi Beach in Sydney.
At the same time, Greenpeace leaders were in Japan calling for whaling to be put on trial.
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| 18 Apr 09 |
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World Sand Sculpture Festival opens in Tottori »
Japan Times  TOTTORI (Kyodo) A sand sculpture festival kicked off Saturday at the Tottori Sand Dune in Tottori Prefecture featuring works by artists from more than 10 countries focusing on the theme of fairy tales. The World Sand Sculpture Festival, which runs... |
| 03 May 09 |
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World Sand Festival » adekun Back in March on the television, there were a few foreign sand sculptors being interviewed over at the eastern side of Tottori prefecture. They were competing against each other, a deadline, and the unexpected rain. From the Tottori Sand Dunes, the centre... |
| 26 Jan 08 |
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Tottori Sand Dunes » Any fidelity will do A large sand pile exists in western Honshu and I thought it was just the thing I needed to see to remedy a fit of wanderlust that hit me during the summer holiday break. Measuring 16km by 2km the Tottori Sand Dunes lie just northeast of the city of... |
| 14 Oct 08 |
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National › Tottori assembly passes ordinance banning graffiti on sand dunes » Japan Today The Tottori prefectural assembly on Tuesday passed an ordinance that bans the act of drawing graffiti on sand dunes in the western prefecture. The ordinance,… |
| 02 Jun 09 |
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Crime › Vandals carve graffiti on Tottori sand dunes » Japan Today Despite an ordinance that took effect April 12 against carving patterns on the pristine Tottori sand dunes, 67 cases of graffiti have been found, prefectural… |
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