NAKAMICHI, Japan -- An elderly woman draws water from a stone well at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac, an act she may have performed her entire lifetime. The water runs clear and cool beneath the old quarter of Nakamachi in Toba, a small port city in Mie Prefecture. But other more visible currents have stilted.
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Dilapidated but architecturally interesting row houses in the Japanese port city of Nakamachi, Mie Prefecture. (Photo by Stephen Mansfield)
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