A young boy finishes the job at his own small Paan shop at Bagan, Myanmar, Oct. 2002. Paan is a stimulating and psychoactive preparation of betel leaf combined with areca nut and cured tobacco. (Photo by Osakabe Yasuo)
A Hazara girl looks into the lens at Kabul, Afghanistan, Oct. 2003. (Photo by Osakabe Yasuo)
Devotees had sit in a round and enjoyed the sufi beat who played Gonga sain and Mithu sain at the platform during stoppage time. (Travel)
Kalash girl sit by the mountain trail for rest. (Travel)
"Open Secret" Pakistani gays are working at the festival. It seems like open society, but I feel it is not....
This is the Pakistan Camel beauty. The job takes about 3 years to make an engraved tatoo for an individual camels. First 2 years, there is just growing the hair and starts trimming. Inhabitant of desert does not use the iron engraved for the camels. They just cut and dye the camel hair. I have never seen such a beautiful works in the world. (Travel)
A young boy with a lucid eyes in Cholistan desert.
Malangs, as known Sadhu, depart to the pilgrimage, called Lahoot, at Lalbag, Sindh, Pakistan. (Photo by Osakabe Yasuo)
MATSUSHIMA AIR FIELD, Japan -- Senior Airman Ramon Mortensen, a 17th Special Operations Squadron loadmaster, looks at damaged F-2 fighters after landing here March 18 to drop of relief supplies. The aircraft were damaged after an 8.9 magnitude earthquake and following tsunami that rocked Northeastern Japan March 11.
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FUKUSHIMA EXCLUSION ZONE, Japan -- An ostrich roaming the empty streets of JR Tomioka station, Tomioka, Fukushima prefecture, Jan. 8, 2012, where has been washed away by the tsunami. Tomioka town is inside the exclusion zone, which has been established around Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant following the Great East Japan Earthquake and the Fukushima nuclear disaster. (Osakabe Yasuo)
FUKUSHIMA 20KM EXCLUSION ZONE, Japan -- Destoryed houses stil remain same situation as March 11, 2011 inside Fukushima 20km exclusion zone. The Japanese government officially announced that the evacuation zone would be extended from the 20 km "circular" zone to an irregular zone extending northwest of the Fukushima on Apr. 22, 2011.
SEHWAN, Pakistan -- On the last day of the Urs of Sufi saint Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, Lahooti, set out on foot for the shrine of Shah Bilawal Noorani in Balochistan in two weeks arduous journey through rugged mountainous terrain. The Lahooti, as the pilgrims who are the journey on foot, are called, consider a spiritual journey as musliman first and sufi. (Photo by Osakabe Yasuo)
Staff Sgt. Nickolas Alarcon, 36th Airlift Squadron loadmaster, observes a drop zone from the rear of a C-130 Hercules after deploying a light payload above Yokota Air Base, Japan, Feb. 21, 2013. The C-130 aircrews demonstrated their airlift capabilities during a readiness week. (U.S. Air Force photo by Osakabe Yasuo)
